Nigerian mixed martial artist, Kamaru Usman has promised to bounce back from his Sunday morning loss to Britain’s Leon Edwards.
The Nigerian nightmare said this in a tweet shortly after losing the UFC 278 main event at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
“Champs f$ck up sometimes… but we bounce back and come with vengeance!!” he wrote.
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Champs f$ck up sometimes… but we bounce back and come with vengeance!! 👊🏿🌍🤴🏿 #NGHTMR
— KAMARU USMAN (@USMAN84kg) August 21, 2022
Usman (20 – 2 – 0) suffered a knockout loss to Edwards (20 – 3 – 0), whom he beat in 2015 on his 19-match winning streak, the longest in UFC history.
However, the 30-year-old Jamaica-born Brit got his revenge this time around, delivering a vicious kick to the welterweight champion just seconds to the end of their five-round bout.
Usman, 35, had dominated the game for most of the encounter and only needed to avoid a knockout to retain his title and match MMA Greatest of All Time Anderson Silva with six successive title defences.
That was not to be as a kick to the head from Edwards sent him to the canvas.
Celebrating his new status as welterweight champion, Edwards said, “I feel great. They all said I couldn’t do it. They all said I couldn’t do it. Look at me now.
“It doesn’t matter. From the trenches. I’m built like this. I go until the final bell. Pound-for-pound, head shot, dead.
“I told you we could win a belt from the UK, now look at me. There is no pound-for-pound, the belt belongs to nobody.
“I told you, mum, I’d change our lives. World champion, world champion, look at me now. I was born in Jamaica with nothing. I lived in a wood shack with a zinc roof.”