Vicente Luque was scheduled to face rising welterweight prospect Ian Machado Garry simply hours earlier than UFC champion Leon Edwards places his title on the road towards Colby Covington in the principle occasion of UFC 296, and he doesn’t count on adjustments on the high of the load class.
Luque mentioned on MMA Preventing’s Trocação Franca that he’s glad to see the title lastly being defended, regardless that he feels Covington shouldn’t be the one standing throughout the cage from the champion on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
“I believe Leon wins,” Luque mentioned. “I believe Leon is a really well-rounded fighter, very powerful. To me, he beat one of many biggest welterweights all-time in Kamaru Usman, and he did it twice, so I decide him because the one to win this combat. And I believe it’s not that shut. I believe he has nice probabilities at profitable.”
“I disagree that Colby needs to be preventing for the belt, however these are selections made [by UFC],” he continued. “I’m simply glad that the division is transferring, that we’re lastly having a title combat. It has taken so lengthy, this could have occurred some time in the past. However I consider in Leon to win.”
Covington earned a shot on the belt after profitable a choice over Jorge Masvidal in March 2022. Edwards’ wins over 170-pound nice Usman occurred after that, and that lengthy layoff for the contender is without doubt one of the the reason why Luque provides Covington even much less of an opportunity at profitable in Las Vegas.
“Colby clearly could be very powerful, he’s proven he can combat the most effective, however he hasn’t fought shortly,” Luque mentioned. “That inactivity will be one thing that performs towards him, however we’ll see. Let’s see what occurs that evening.”
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