Let’s be honest: Despite three water cooler talkers to close the event, UFC 304 was rife with bloopers.
Maybe that’s what happens when you throw a major pay-per-view in the middle of the night. The main event wrapped up around 6:15 in the morning in Manchester, England. The event started at 11 p.m. local time to accommodate the North American audience.
There were several technical issues on the pay-per-view broadcast, the ESPN2 broadcast and the ESPN+ stream, including multiple minutes of dropped feeds.
But in the main event, just minutes after Belal Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) upset British champion Leon Edwards (22-4 MMA, 14-3 UFC) to win the welterweight title, former two-division champion, UFC Hall of Famer and broadcast analyst Daniel Cormier, who ran the in-cage interviews with winners, pulled off a blooper so perfect it could have been scripted.
Muhammad’s nickname is “Remember the Name.” And right after he wrapped his time with him on the microphone, Cormier re-introduced him to the crowd at Co-op Live in Manchester as … Edwards.
Well, sh*t.
Muhammad barely seemed to notice with a new piece of hardware wrapped around his waist as the first Palestinian champion in UFC history, and he’ll likely remember that more than the Cormier name slip … which you can check out below, with apologies to D.C.
And here we thought the couple times he mentioned hands in butts were UFC 304’s broadcast highlights. (C’mon … you know you heard it.)
— Combat (@combat2747) July 28, 2024
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