“People don’t know him real well”- Dominick Cruz wants people to put some respect upon Frankie Edgar’s name
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Frankie Edgar wants Dominick Cruz! Edgar has a venue and a competitor in his mind to send him off to retirement after that, and that’s one legendary name and a place. Edgar has officially broken the news to ESPN MMA that he would be retiring in his next fight.
Edgar last fought at UFC 268 when he got knocked out in the last round by Marlon Vera, a fight Edgar was closely winning all the way but couldn’t answer back to the vicious front kicks put on by Vera.
Edgar is a legend of MMA, a person with the most fight time inside the UFC octagon (7 hours, 55 minutes, and 9 seconds), with the most title defenses in UFC lightweight history (3; tied with BJ Penn, Benson Henderson, and Khabib Nurmagomedov) and with wins over the likes of BJ Penn, Charles Oliveira, Gray Maynard, Tyson Griffin, Cub Swanson, Urijah Faber, Chad Mendes, Pedro Munhoz, Yair Rodriguez, Jeremy Stephens and many more.
“I got no beef”- Dominick Cruz has nothing but respect for Frankie Edgar
In an interview with ESPN MMA’s Brett Okamoto, Edgar talks about his decision to officially put out the retirement announcement, and his promise to stay associated with the sport in some way, he has mixed reactions about leaving the sport but he said he would love to get his last fight against another veteran, Dominick Cruz.
Cruz is probably on his last title run, and he looked incredibly good in his last fight against Pedro Munhoz. He reacted to Edgar’s call-out while talking to The Schmo, he said, “You know I wouldn’t say no to Frankie Edgar. He’s a legend in the sport, he’s done a lot. You know you’re thinking about it, he’s done so much, you got these new up-and-comers that people don’t know him real well.”
“So over time, he just wants to fight somebody that’s known, that can get people to watch and I’ve been around for a long time, he’s been around for a long time, so I know where it comes. Me and Frankie have always been cool. So I got no beef,” Cruz concluded.
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