Vicente Luque leans in the direction of Leon Edwards beating Belal Muhammad at UFC 304.
Edwards (21-3 MMA, 13-2 UFC) defends his welterweight title in a rematch towards Muhammad (23-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) within the July 27 predominant occasion at Co-op Dwell in Manchester, England.
Luque thinks Muhammad has made many enhancements since his Spherical 2 no contest towards Edwards in 2021. Having fought each Muhammad and Edwards – Muhammad twice, Luque gave perception into the title battle rematch.
“It’s a loopy battle,” Luque informed MMA Junkie Radio. “If I am going from their first battle which ended with that eye poke, I believed Leon was trying a lot better and he was beating Belal in that battle. However since then, I really feel like Belal went increase a terrific streak. He’s been actually, actually sharpening up his instruments and he is aware of the sort of fighter he’s proper now. He’s not a man that makes many errors inside that octagon.”
Luque knocked out Muhammad of their first assembly in 2016, however Muhammad avenged his loss by outgrappling Luque after they ran issues again in 2022.
Luque was additionally outgrappled by Edwards after they fought in 2017. He thinks the champion’s placing will finally make the distinction towards Muhammad.
“For me, I’d say it’s actually tied up,” Luque mentioned. They each can actually take the win. I might nearly put it 50-50, however I’ll go somewhat bit with Leon simply because I feel Leon has extra versatile placing and he does have some actually exact photographs, and that may change a battle. I do know each of them wrestle actually good. I really feel like Leon has nice wrestling cardio.
“In my battle, we wrestled rather a lot, and that’s how I ended up getting drained. After that he was simply throwing his fingers, boxing, and mixing it up with wrestling so, I feel that little little bit of expertise, of means from Leon, I might put him as somewhat little bit of a favourite. However nonetheless, very shut battle for me.”
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