“I don’t think anybody in this room knows why he’s fighting for the title,” the Brit said at the media press conference. “I don’t have any hatred for him. I don’t know him enough to hate him, but I don’t like the character he plays. He’s a clown and I treat him accordingly.”
“He’s not as good as everyone thinks he is. He’s a guy who’s lost by technical knockout, he’s been choked and transferred. There are a lot of ways to beat him. He’s an average fighter, and me and my team have a great plan ready to neutralize what he’s good at. My goal is to go out there and destroy him. And that’s what I’m going to do.”
As a reminder, the welterweight title fight between Leon Edwards and Colby Covington will be the main event of UFC 296, which takes place on December 16 in Las Vegas.