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22nd January 2019
11:08pm GMT

"We were looking for some other names, (Jorge) Masvidal or (Darren) Till would have been great," Nelson told Peter Carroll on Eurobash. "I think there were some other names on the table, I can’t remember exactly. I wasn’t really eyeing Leon, I knew he was going to be on the card, but I thought he had already been matched up.
https://twitter.com/ParadigmSM/status/1085967214413369344"There was some discussion, I don’t know about who, but that’s what we heard. I guess that didn’t come true. For a while they were saying that I wouldn’t be on the London card. They told me that they would bring me to do the States for my next one. I was a little bit bummed because I wanted to be on the London card, but then this came up and we took it."
The two names 'Gunni' was initially chasing, Till and Masvidal, will do battle over five rounds in the main event and Nelson's head coach, John Kavanagh, has a tremendous idea for how the 170lbs title frame should shake out after St. Patrick's weekend. https://twitter.com/john_kavanagh/status/1085693711739224064?s=21 Kavanagh has suggested that the winners of Nelson vs. Edwards and Till vs. Masvidal ought to meet in summer with the victor of that bout going on to meet whoever holds the 170lbs strap at the end of the year.Explore more on these topics: