'This guy used my dad's death as entertainment.' - Leon Edwards on Colby Covington 🏆 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 #UFC296

Ladies and gentlemen , after five rounds , we go to the judges scorecards for decision , all three judges score this contest 4946 for the winner by you still .

Yeah , you , you were what a great champion of the world .

Leon .

Welcome .

Ladies and gentlemen , I am here with the winner and still UFC welterweight champion of the world .

Leon Edwards .

Leon .

This was an interesting fight in that .

What we got out of .

Kobe was not the same that we've seen before .

It wasn't reckless .

He didn't come charging after you and try to put the pace on you .

But it's , it seemed like you wanted to prove a point by grappling with him in a , in a moment .

Yeah , 100% .

I know it was a bad athlete .

You know , like all training camp kept going on about his cardio , his cardio , his cardio .

So no one wants to control the distance .

I'd have to match with cardio cardio so like I could match with technique and range and just shut him down and moments where the fight did go to the ground .

It seemed like the reason why he was able to get on top of you was , you chose to grapple with him instead of choosing to try to get back up .

Iii I want , I wanted to um um II I wanted to grapple with him just to shut down this strike uh thing I've got going on , you know , I'm a mixed martial arts .

I started , I started as a missed ma martial arts .

So I wanna come out here , prove my case .

I grapple a gra the grappler .

I was struck him in .

This is my 2nd , 2nd entire defense tired GSB for most um wins in a row .

So let's still do what I'm doing .

There was one moment .

This fight was very emotional for me .

This guy used my , my dad's death as entertainment .

He used my dad's murder of entertainment and it took it out for me to calm down , stay focused and come in and fight , you know , and I thought to my coach , I spoke to my mum and I kind of just shut it all down , you know , was this much more difficult for you because of that because of the anger 100% .

Uh back after the press conference , I went backstage , I was crying cos just the rage that you can't eat my dad's death as my uh as entertainment .

And that's what he did , you know , like to this day , he still breaks my heart .

He got murdered and he said my dad should burn in hell and well , you got past that you dominated this fight .

You retained your title .

Does , does it bother you that you weren't able to finish it ?

100% ?

100% ?

I feel like I was a much better athlete than technique technician .

I had , had a few , uh , scenarios and I could have , I couldn't have went for the child and finish it and , um , but like I said , he's a good , he's a good guy , you know , he compete hard against Kumar who's been won out there twice .

And so he's a , he's a great competitor , but it's just a , they're a human being .

Well , listen , sir , congratulations on retaining your title .

You are still the we to win champion of the world .

Ladies and gentlemen , Neo Edwards , Jesus .