“I couldn’t remember who the f**k I fought. I’m like ‘who did I fight?” Frankie Edgar reflects on his brutal knockout against Cory Sandhagen
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Frankie Edgar was brutally knocked by Cory “The Sandman” Sandhagen at UFC Vegas 18, with a perfectly executed flying knee, in a recent interview with ESPN, he discussed the trauma that followed after.
He said, “I didn’t really come to until I was in the back. That is the first thing I remember. I’m sitting around the doctors going through that whole process with them, Mark and Ricardo are next to me and I’m like, ‘Mark, what happened?’ He’s like ‘you fought,’ and I kind of figured that.”
“But I couldn’t remember who the f**k I fought. I’m like ‘who did I fight?’ He’s like ‘Sandhagen.’ I’m trying to remember training for the guy and I could not remember training for him. Since when was I supposed to fight him? I thought maybe I just took this fight on short notice or something. He’s like ‘bro, two months. You have been training for this guy for two months.’
“Man, I just couldn’t wrap it around my head. The doctor asked me what day it was and for the life of me, I could not remember. I was like, ‘September, December.’ That is when they said I needed to go get a cat scan.”
“I started to remember the warmup and even the first 20 seconds before getting hit,” Frankie recalls getting his senses back after the fight
Frankie Edgar further addressed the moment he started remembering things he said, “Alright, whatever, we go to the hospital, and then on the way to the hospital the nurse in the ambulance said ‘what day of February is it?’ I was like boom, ‘it’s the 6th.’
“Right away that is when things started snowballing and I started to remember the warmup and even the first 20 seconds before getting hit with the knee. Everything came back to me but I don’t remember walking out of the cage though.”
Many fans speculated that “The answer” should consider retirement after that loss but Frankie is far from being done, he further added,
“I’m not thinking of stopping anytime – at least now. Not after this one.”
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