The British fight Leon Edwards and American Colby Covington did not correspond to the status of the title, Russian fighter Ilyas Khamzin, runner-up to former UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan, told .
Edwards defeated Covington by unanimous decision in Las Vegas to defend the UFC welterweight belt. On the same show, Rakhmonov defeated American Stephen Thompson ahead of schedule. Rakhmonov has won 18 out of 18 fights and has a six-fight winning streak in the UFC.
— A boring, one-sided fight, you could say. Edwards said he would go out, set the tone and overwhelm it with features – but all of that remained up for discussion. We didn’t see any action, so by the fifth round it just lit up. The title fight should be different. It’s a boring fight – we have to let Shavkat (Rakhmonov) go after them,” Khamzin told .
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