35 UFC stars and experts predict Leon Edwards vs. Kamaru Usman

Stephen Thompson

Pick: Kamaru Usman

Welterweight veteran Stephen Thompson believes Usman will get his hands raised in London.

“Well, looking back at the last fight, Usman was winning the majority of the rounds,” Thompson says to Submission Radio. “Leon got the first one. It was amazing, because you never saw Usman getting taken down before and controlled on the ground. Leon did that. After that round, it was all Usman up until the point of he got knocked out.

“Now, do I think Leon could set it up again? I do. But on paper I have Usman winning this fight, just because he was dominating the last one until he just wasn’t. And it’s harder to pull something off again for the second time. It’s gonna be very, very difficult.”