LEON EDWARDS has revealed the truth behind his incredible and viral trick.
The UFC welterweight champion went viral on social media this week with a trick that football stars around the world would be proud of.
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Edwards, 32, nonchalantly kicked a Basketball at the rim with an excellent volley with his left foot after stopping one of his last runs before the fight.
‘Rocky’ made an incredible shot from more than 20 yards away from the rim that barely reverberated as the ball hit 90 percent of the net.
MMA fans were amazed by the Aston Villa Amazing fan technique.
Many, however, were skeptical about the clip’s legitimacy – with some claiming it was an elaborate hoax.
But Edwards said: “I was going out for a morning run and the ball came towards me and I shot it.”
There were shadows of Ronaldinho’s famous crossbar challenge with Nike in the early 2000s, which ended up being staged.
Edwards, however, insists his hit was real.
The Team Renegade captain said: “Mine was real, I don’t know about Ronaldinho.”
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Edwards then laughed as he realized the ball would have gone miles away if he had missed the ball. target.
“Exactly,” he said. “And I would have kept running.”
Pride from Birmingham Edwards will renew his rivalry with former enemy Belal Muhammad on Sunday morning in the main fight of UFC 304 in Manchester.
Their first date ended due to an inadvertent poke in Las Vegas three years ago.
“I literally thought I was blind,” Muhammad told SunSport in an exclusive interview when recalling their first meeting. “The hardest thing I had to do was deal with eye surgery.
“When you have eye surgery, it’s the most depressing thing because you can’t do anything.
“You have to be in a certain headspace for, you know, four or five months. You can’t coach and I love coaching.”
He said: “Literally, it took like 30 or 40 minutes after [happened] to finally see some light from there.
“You’re like, ‘Oh my God, I still have vision. I can still see.’ It was like, it was hard, man.
“At that moment, it was like one of those heartbreaking, heartbreaking moments for me.
“Like you said, when you bring back the memory with that, it still puts fear in me.”
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