UFC fan favorite Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone has endured two months of trash-talk from relative unknown fighter Leon Edwards.
Now, Cerrone gets to face off with his foe in this weekend’s UFC main event, and he’s pretty aggravated.
Ahead of most “Cowboy” fights Donald is cool, calm, and collected. But, Edwards has him talking smack.
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“He’s a real arrogant, cocky motherf*cker, to be honest with you. So, I don’t know, we’ll see, but I’m not too impressed with him at all.”
“We were out doing a media tour, he was just really vocal and angry the whole time, just wanted to be mad and had nothing but just rude-ass comments to say. I was like, damn, man, I’m a f*cking veteran in this sport. You’re talking about you’re just going to steamroll me, and I’m old, you’re new. And it’s like, damn, okay, sure. I told him, ‘You’re gonna have to go home and tell your momma an old, slow dude beat your ass.’ That’s alright though.
“He’s not that bold, he’s not talking sh*t to my face like that. I’ll beat the f*ck outta anybody. I’ll f*cking kick the sh*t outta you, let’s not get that confused.”
“[He’s trying to] convince himself. He’s saying that I’m trying to become his friend because that way I feel like the beating is just going to be less. I was like, oh my God, you’re so weird.
“I tried to explain to him, I said, ‘Look, man. The Colby Covington approach, you look like a f*cking asshole. You look like a complete f*cking dick. Why would you want that? Why would you want people to think that you’re a dick? Be a good guy. Why would you want to be the angry fighter?’ Like, sure, fighting is what we do in our sport, but, dude, we’re also cool people.
“Conor (McGregor) is a whole different demon, that son of a b*tch went in there and did it and backed it all up. That’s a whole different animal of its own. But Colby [and others are] trying to emulate it and I don’t know what the hell’s going on.”
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“He’s probably going to come really hard, really fast and try to put me away because everyone knows I’m a slow starter.”
“All this media and five rounds is a lot for him, so taking him into the later rounds — I really don’t see this fight going much longer than the second or third round. But he’s sure going to try, and I’m gonna be the old, slow dog putting him away.”
