What ethnicity is Leon Edwards? Where did Leon Edwards grow up?

Publish date: 2024-06-18

Leon Edwards is a Jamaican-born British professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he is the current UFC Welterweight Champion.

Leon Edwards was born on August 25, 1991 (age 30 years), in Kingston, Jamaica.

What ethnicity is Leon Edwards?

Leon Edwards is a Jamaican-born British provessional mixed martial artist and the current UFC Welterweight champion.

Where did Leon Edwards grow up?

Edwards was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and lived with his parents and his brother in a one-room house. He was mostly surrounded by crime, and his father was involved questionable activities.

Edwards had moved to the Aston area of Birmingham, England at age nine, there he started his career. He lost his father who was shot and killed in a nightclub in London when Edwards had turned thirteen.

Edward had started involving himself in criminal activity such as drug dealing, street fighting, and knife possession along with his social circle.

He bounced back at the age 17, when his mother got him to join an MMA club.

Source: Ghanafuo.com

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