Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight king Leon
Edwards recently offered some insight into his perceived
dispute with rising welterweight prospect Ian
Garry.
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Garry got into a feud with Edwards after being barred from the
Englishman’s Team Renegade gym. While Garry claimed to have been
thrown out over Edwards’ “insecurities,” the champion entirely
dismissed the narrative.
“I feel like once he came to the gym, he just didn’t fit into the
gym,” Edwards told MMAFighting.com.
“This is like the third gym now he’s been kicked out of. It is what
it is. He’s just a different kind of guy. He’s hard to blend with.
Everywhere he goes there’s a camera there. Everywhere he goes, his
wife is there, his kid is there. There’s a lot going on. There
wasn’t any bad blood. He came out and made it into a big thing and
it wasn’t. He’s been kicked out of more gyms than mine. Like, why
are you making such a big deal out of it? Because I’m the champion,
he wants to ride off the back of my coattails.”
After Garry’s spat with Edwards, Paddy
Pimblett claimed to have heard rumors of “Rocky” knocking out
“The Future” in training. Edwards addressed those rumors, admitting
that he didn’t exactly put Garry to sleep.
“I didn’t knock him out clean, no,” Edwards said. “He got a little
taste [of the Kamaru
Usman head kick] for sure.”
Edwards also believes Garry has a long way to go before he can lay
claim to contender status at welterweight.
“Skill-wise, he’s a long way away from even a thought in my brain
for competing for a title,” Edwards said. “Like I said, I wish him
well in his endeavors but I feel like skill-wise right now, he’s
not a guy I think ‘Oh s—t, I need to stay away from this guy.’”