Vicente Luque: Leon Edwards has ‘spacious wrestling cardio,’ more versatile inserting than Belal Muhammad

Vicente Luque leans against Leon Edwards beating Belal Muhammad at UFC 304.

Edwards (21-3 MMA, 13-2 UFC) defends his welterweight title in a rematch in opposition to Muhammad (23-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) within the July 27 major tournament at Co-op Dwell in Manchester, England.

Luque thinks Muhammad has made many improvements since his Spherical 2 no contest in opposition to Edwards in 2021. Having fought every Muhammad and Edwards – Muhammad twice, Luque gave perception into the title fight rematch.

“It’s a loopy fight,” Luque told MMA Junkie Radio. “If I disappear from their first fight which ended with that search for drag, I believed Leon became as soon as attempting worthy better and he became as soon as beating Belal in that fight. But since then, I in actuality feel like Belal went assemble up a spacious inch. He’s been in actuality, in actuality sharpening up his instruments and he is aware of the more or less fighter he’s merely now. He’s no longer a man that makes many errors interior that octagon.”

Luque knocked out Muhammad in their first assembly in 2016, but Muhammad avenged his loss by outgrappling Luque after they ran issues relieve in 2022.

Luque became as soon as also outgrappled by Edwards after they fought in 2017. He thinks the champion’s inserting will at last kind the adaptation in opposition to Muhammad.

“For me, I’d advise it’s in actuality tied up,” Luque acknowledged. They every can in actuality prefer the make a choice. I would nearly attach it 50-50, but I’ll disappear a bit of bit with Leon merely because I feel Leon has more versatile inserting and he does personal some in actuality staunch pictures, and that can switch a fight. I know every of them wrestle in actuality real. I in actuality feel like Leon has spacious wrestling cardio.

“In my fight, we wrestled a lot, and that’s how I finished up getting drained. After that he became as soon as merely throwing his fingers, boxing, and mixing it up with wrestling so, I feel that diminutive bit of abilities, of ability from Leon, I would attach him as a bit of bit of a popular. But quiet, very end fight for me.”

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