Johnny Eblen Squashes Beef with Leon Edwards, Wants ‘Rocky’ To Beat Colby Covington

Johnny Eblen successfully defended his middleweight title against Fabian Edwards in the main event at Bellator 299 at the 3Arena in Dublin on Saturday.

Despite being split open and subsequently rocked by Edwards, Eblen turned the tide with a huge right hand in Round 3 and followed it up with some vicious ground-and-pound to record a knockout victory, extending his perfect record to 14-0.

Fueled by the bad blood they shared in the lead-up, Eblen took the chance to speak his mind while towering above his fallen opponent. This prompted Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title holder Leon Edwards to come to his brother Fabian’s defense, leading to a heated exchange of words with Eblen.

However, Eblen doesn’t have any serious bad blood with “Rocky” and claims to have “squashed the beef” backstage. The Bellator middleweight champ is even rooting for Edwards in the UFC champ’s upcoming title defense against Colby Covington at UFC 296.

“Lot of emotions bro,” Eblen said during a post-fight media session. “I mean, his brother is a great fighter. I honestly hope he beats Colby. I f—-ing hate Colby, that dude sucks.

“But yeah, I wanna fight him [Leon Edwards] too. He’s one of the best guys in the world and I wanna prove that I’m one of the best in the world. You gotta fight everybody. He’s not in my weight class but I feel like he might go up to [185 pounds] eventually. But I went over after and told him, ‘Hey man, sorry my emotions were high’ and I squashed the beef. I don’t have anything wrong with him. I just wanna fight the guy.”