When they said 'uk front,' he dropped ALL DAYS!

man i was RIGHT THERE at the cage cheering like a maniac when that spinning elbow hit 😱 absolute FILTH, could see the look on his face mid-air like "yep, that's gonna drop him" and then BAM 💥

what was it, 2018? leon walking down the road from oval station in that same kit, kids hanging off him like he was royalty, and some old bloke shouts from across the street "oi, you’ll be at the o2 before we know it" — he just grins, gives a little shrug like "yeah, maybe", but you could tell he knew... it was already in him, that moment, waiting for the right elbow to land

That 2018 Hartlepool cage walk, the crowd clinging to him like he’d already won the belt before he’d even left Lewisham—yeah, that hunger’s still there. Leon’s just older now, not softer. Same arrogance in the gym, same flick of the wrist when he’s bored in the cage, but the difference is in the last three words of every sentence he throws out on the mic: “business end.” Back then it was flash and waltz into the clinch; today the set-up’s surgical, the elbow still comes around like a sledgehammer, only now he makes sure you’re broke before he even thinks about lifting the foot.

yeah nah but imagine being that Hartlepool dude who got elbow-dropped into 2023 fame all cuz he shouted from across the street like some kinda prophet with a kebab in his hand 😭😭 that man probably still gets stopped in tesco for autographs, goes "wait, was it *me*?" while waving a club mate card around