Whereas incumbent heavyweight champion, Jon Jones has leaked he will likely make his return at UFC 309 in November within the promotion’s comeback to Madison Sq. Backyard, undisputed welterweight kingpin, Leon Edwards is able to stack the principle card in a historic showdown with former two-division greatest, Conor McGregor.
Edwards, the present undisputed welterweight gold holder, is himself slated to make his return at UFC 304 in late July, headlining the group’s return to Manchester in a rematch against surging contender, Belal Muhammad.
As for McGregor, the previous undisputed featherweight and light-weight titleholder is about to return from an nearly three-year layoff at UFC 303 on the finish of subsequent month throughout Worldwide Combat Week, taking on Michael Chandler in a return to the welterweight limit.
Conor McGregor supplied title struggle by Leon Edwards at UFC 309
And forward of UFC 304, Edwards has urged that ought to he topple Muhammad, and McGregor beat Chandler, why don’t the pair function at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York – providing the Dubliner an opportunity to turn into a first-ever three-weight champion within the promotion.
“That’d be good, that’d be good, you realize,” Leon Edwards advised MMA Fighting of a struggle with Conor McGregor. “It might be good to provide him the chance – yeah, 100%, why not? I really feel like let’s give him the chance to turn into [a] three-division world champion, [and] give me a possibility to take out a man like Conor (McGregor). You already know, New York – that might be good.”
“That’s the struggle, you realize,” Leon Edwards defined. “He goes on the market and takes out Michael (Chandler), I take out ‘No One Remembers His Title’ and we’ll go from there. We’ll go to New York – MSG, let’s go. That’s the struggle. That’s the struggle, that’s the struggle, I really feel. You already know, two of us have enterprise to deal with. That’s the struggle, that should occur. It ought to occur.”
Who would win in a possible title showdown: Leon Edwards or Conor McGregor?
