Fabian Edwards won the Professional Fighters League middleweight tournament and $500,000 (\u00a3369,000) prize with a stunning head kick knockout of Dalton Rosta in Hollywood, Florida.<\/p>\n
After a back-and-forth two rounds, Birmingham’s Edwards unleashed a left high kick, sending the American crashing to the ground as the referee waved off the contest.<\/p>\n
The move mirrored his older brother Leon, who stopped Kamaru Usman in 2022 with the same kick in stunning fashion to win the UFC welterweight title.<\/p>\n
Leon was cage-side for 32-year-old Edwards’ win and gleefully joined his brother in the post-fight celebrations.<\/p>\n
“That is crazy. God’s got a funny way of working,” said Edwards, after being informed his brother’s knockout happened almost three years ago to the day.<\/p>\n
“I said to my brother, ‘I’m going to try that shot’. I do that shot well in the gym, and it worked beautifully.”<\/p>\n
Edwards’ is the second Briton to win a PFL tournament inside a week following Alfie Davis’ lightweight tournament victory last week.<\/a><\/p>\n He is also the fourth Briton in total to triumph following Brendan Loughnane’s featherweight win in 2022<\/a> and Dakota Ditcheva’s women’s flyweight success<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabian Edwards won the Professional Fighters League middleweight tournament and $500,000 (\u00a3369,000) prize with a stunning head kick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-87064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}