Leon Edwards’ knockout of Kamaru Usman at UFC 278 was shocking, stunning, dramatic, incredible, all of the above.
One thing it was not, however, was lucky.
Maybe the head-kick finish with 56 second remaining in the fifth round was, to use a football term, a “Hail Mary,” as Usman later described it. After all, Edwards was headed for certain defeat on the judges’ scorecards after being dominated in Rounds 2, 3 and 4.
