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Leon Edwards

“Rocky”

Welterweight#8 Welterweight3-fight losing streak

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22WINS

6LOSSES

0DRAWS

7KO/TKO

3SUB

12DEC

Pro MMA recordSource: UFC.com athlete profile (official)Checked 2026-10-22

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Tale of the tape

Age: 35 · born Aug 25, 1991 UFC.com
Height: 6′0″ 183 cm⚑ UFC.com
Reach: 74″ 188 cm UFC.com
Leg reach: 43″ 109 cm UFC.com
Stance: Southpaw UFCStats
Weight class: Welterweight UFC.com
UFC ranking: #8 Welterweight UFC.com
Fighting style: MMA UFC.com
Team / gym: UTC Ultimate Training Centre Birmingham UFC.com
Born: Kingston, Jamaica UFC.com
UFC debut: Nov. 9, 2014 UFC.com
1st-round finishes: 5 UFC.com

UFC.com: UFC.com athlete profile (official) · checked 2026-10-22 · UFCStats: UFCStats.com fighter page (data via the public ufcstats.com mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18)

UFC career stats

54%Striking accuracy873 of 1606 landed

16%Takedown accuracy12⚑ of 75 landed

2.6Sig. strikes landedper min

2.44Sig. strikes absorbedper min

53%Striking defense

1.25Takedownsper 15 min

64%Takedown defense

0.36Submission attemptsper 15 min

0.22Knockdownsper 15 min

16:47Average fight time

Sig. strikes by position

Standing662 76%

Clinch119 14%

Ground92 11%

Sig. strikes by target

Head490 56%

Body206 24%

Leg177 20%

⚑ = UFC.com and UFCStats disagree on this number. We show the official UFC.com figure and have flagged it for review.

Source: UFC.com athlete profile (official) (UFC stats are for UFC bouts only) · checked 2026-10-22

UFC fight history 20 bouts

Res	Opponent	Method	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Carlos Prates	KO/TKO	2	1:28	UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev	Nov 15, 2025	↗
L	Sean Brady	Submission	4	1:39	UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Brady	Mar 22, 2025	↗
L	Belal Muhammad	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2	Jul 27, 2024	↗
W	Colby Covington	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington	Dec 16, 2023	↗
W	Kamaru Usman	Decision - Majority	5	5:00	UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3	Mar 18, 2023	↗
W	Kamaru Usman	KO/TKO	5	4:04	UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards	Aug 20, 2022	↗
W	Nate Diaz	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2	Jun 12, 2021	↗
NC	Belal Muhammad	Could Not Continue	2	0:18	UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad	Mar 13, 2021	↗
W	Rafael Dos Anjos	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards	Jul 20, 2019	↗
W	Gunnar Nelson	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal	Mar 16, 2019	↗
W	Donald Cerrone	Decision - Unanimous	5	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards	Jun 23, 2018	↗
W	Peter Sobotta	KO/TKO	3	4:59	UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov	Mar 17, 2018	↗
W	Bryan Barberena	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve	Sep 2, 2017	↗
W	Vicente Luque	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson	Mar 18, 2017	↗
W	Albert Tumenov	Submission	3	3:01	UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson	Oct 8, 2016	↗
W	Dominic Waters	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski	May 8, 2016	↗
L	Kamaru Usman	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2	Dec 19, 2015	↗
W	Pawel Pawlak	Decision - Unanimous	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites	Jul 18, 2015	↗
W	Seth Baczynski	KO/TKO	1	0:08	UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs Cro Cop 2	Apr 11, 2015	↗
L	Claudio Silva	Decision - Split	3	5:00	UFC Fight Night 56: Shogun vs Saint Preux	Nov 8, 2014	↗

UFC bouts only. Source: UFCStats.com bout pages (via the public mirror, snapshot 2026-10-18) · checked 2026-10-22. Bouts outside the UFC aren’t listed because we only republish history we can trace to an official source.