But during his time away from the octagon, he has made very few media appearances.<\/p>\n
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\u2018Rocky\u2019 does hope to be fighting by the end of the year, with a December date the most likely for a return to the company.<\/p>\n
\u2018Great\u2019 Leon Edwards fight in the UK would inspire people, says middleweight fighter<\/p>\n
No opponent has been rumoured, but one man who would love the opportunity to face the 33-year-old is Michael \u2018Venom\u2019 Page, who is fighting at middleweight on the Dricus Du Plessis<\/a> vs Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> undercard.<\/p>\n The Londoner has had a successful start to life at middleweight with a win over Sharabutdin \u2018Bullet\u2019 Magomedov, although he hasn\u2019t ruled out a fight against Leon.<\/p>\n Speaking to MMA Junkie, he was questioned on whether he\u2019d been offered a fight with the star.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cNot at all. I just think it\u2019s a great fight for the UK. That\u2019s the only reason I\u2019m kind of like let\u2019s (do it) both of us, we come from very similar backgrounds, and we can inspire other people that have come from our backgrounds to see us main event in the UFC.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the guy\u2019s amazing. I think he\u2019s had a bit of a hard run, but he\u2019s super talented and can definitely come back.\u201d<\/p>\n Page has not had the chance to have a UFC fight in Britain, but during his Bellator run, he was able to fight five times in London.<\/p>\n While not on the table yet, MVP did outline when the potential fight would take place.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t see that happening until maybe next year when the UFC comes back to the UK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n No reasoning behind Michael \u2018Venom\u2019 Page fight, says UFC 319 opponent<\/p>\n His next fight in the company at UFC 319 is against Jared Cannonier, who is currently ranked eighth at middleweight.<\/p>\n However, it is safe to say Cannonier was not happy with \u2018Venom\u2019 being the choice of opponent.<\/p>\n In an interview with Submission Radio, he said: \u201cI can\u2019t really make any reasoning behind the matchmaking. The issues that I had with the fight is that (Page) is really not a middleweight.<\/p>\n \u201cMe, I\u2019m focused on getting back to the title. I understand it\u2019s a big fight, it\u2019s on a big card, so there is some weight there\u2026 The fight is happening, so get ready.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018The Killa Gorilla\u2019 has won three of his last five fights, with the two losses coming to the main event fighters of UFC Paris Nassourdine Imavov and Caio Borralho.<\/p>\n A win against the striking stylist could prove to be a good step towards the top five of the division if the American can dispatch him in eye-catching fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leon Edwards has not fought in the Octagon since a submission loss to Sean Brady. The former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-52886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}