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Soccer Aid 2023: Who is Leon Edwards playing for World XI?
11.06.2023 - 18:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Soccer Aid returns for another year with the star-studded event expected to once again be watched by millions across the UK.
An England XI and World XI, consisting of former professionals and celebrities, will play each other at Old Trafford on Sunday night.
It is the first time in three years the charity match, which raises money for Unicef, has taken place at the home of Manchester United.
Among the famous faces taking part this year is Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Leon Edwards who will play in goal. The 31-year-old has been a professional mixed martial artist since 2011 and has been fighting in the UFC since 2014.
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On August 20, 2022, Edwards won the UFC Welterweight Championship after he knocked out Nigerian fighter Kamaru Usman at UFC 278. He defended the total against Usman at UFC 286.
In total, he has had 25 MMA bouts and won 21.
Leon was born in Kingston Jamaica before moving to Birmingham at the age of nine. At the age of 14 Leon's dad was tragically shot and killed in a nightclub in London.
Writing in ESPN in 2019, Leon admits his father's death pushed him more into 'gang life and crime' and says his mid-teens were his darkest years.
Aged 17 his mum made him join a gym training MMA fighters - and it's a decision that changed his life. Leon wrote: "I'm truly grateful for what she did for me. I didn't see it when I was a kid, but now I've got a little boy, as well. Now I know she did what she had to do to survive. I never went without something."
He added: "I had my first amateur fight eight months into training. Then I won four fights in one day, winning a tournament at the gym. From then on, I stuck to MMA. I knew it was
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