TAG | FRANKIE EDGAR
From Bloody Elbow’s Jonathan Snowden, speaking about UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, my selection as the 2010 Fighter of the Year, and his matchup against challenger Gray Maynard Saturday night at UFC 125: On paper it’s absolutely the right matchup. The man who dethroned the best lightweight in the history of the sport defending his [...]
Let me start off by saying that I doubted Frankie Edgar would even make it this far. I picked BJ Penn in both fights on MMABadAss.com, but we all make mistakes. Having said that, I won’t make that mistake again. Since both Edgar and Maynard won their fights at UFC 118, many people have been [...]
After losing his title to Frankie Edgar, and the subsequent rematch, BJ Penn is left asking what is next. What weight class should he fight in, should he change fight camps, and what should he do if he cannot beat the champion in either weight class that he can reasonably make? Once looking indestructible and [...]
Back in March I did an interview with UFC lightweight Jim Miller previewing UFC 111 in Newark, N.J. Frankie Edgar, a fellow Jersey Boy, who was to challenge B.J. Penn the following month for the UFC lightweight championship. Penn had not lost a fight as a lightweight since 2002 (Jens Pulver, UFC 35). His last [...]