“It’s like every fight, whether it’s your last or your first,” Edgar said. “My first fight and my last fight, I still want to win so much. And there’s always some kind of outside distraction, a guy who wants to beat me and a guy who wants to make a name for me. So it’s very familiar territory.
That is why Frankie Edgard is loved. It’s that familiar territory, that reality that when he’s in the Octagon you always know what you’re going to get. Death, taxes and Frankie Edgar. Two we can do without, a reliable part of life that we will miss. But not forgotten. Oh no, never forgot.
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“When someone is watching me fight, the best compliment I can get is, ‘Man, you wanna win. You want him more than the other guy,” he said. “They can tell, no matter what, I’m all for these fights. Win, lose or draw, I give myself one hundred percent. This is why I want to be remembered. »
Deal done. And if he wins big on Saturday night, could this abandonment be suspended?
Edgar laughed, knowing I had to ask.
“A lot of my team says I’m gonna sit there and pull a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ and say ‘I’m not going f**kin’.’ But I was never going to be the guy to say, ‘I’m going to retire.’ I was just going to leave. But saying I’m going to retire before that happens, I think that’s going to hold me accountable and I have to move on to the next chapter of my life.
