Combat & UFC
UFC announcer says he might have missed Leon Edwards head kick while looking away
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"I guess at that point in time I was irritated with this narrative that Leon was just running clock. And so at that point I looked to my right to DC, I believe, and I was like, yeah, but that's like not the cloth from which he is cut. And I was about to say like, look at that corner, they're absolutely dejected. And in a split second I looked back and caught the head kick."
Jon Anik revealed he was looking away from the octagon to address a narrative about Leon Edwards when the fighter landed his historic knockout head kick against Kamaru Usman. Anik admitted he caught the kick only in a split second after turning back to the action. The announcer said months later when he saw Edwards again, the fighter quoted Anik's call back to him.
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