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Frankie Edgar: Former UFC lightweight champion off to retire, eyes his last bout at UFC 281 Madison Square Garden, opts for Dominick Cruz as final legacy opponent

Frankie Edgar: Former UFC lightweight champion off to retire, eyes his last bout at UFC 281 Madison Square Garden, opts for Dominick Cruz as final legacy opponent

Frankie Edgar: The Answer is about to fight is last fight ending up his professional mixed martial career.He chooses Dominick Cruz for UFC 281 as his final opponent and wishes to fight at Madison Square Garden. Follow UFC news and UFC Live Updates with InsideSport.IN ALSO READ: Nate Diaz: Full Send reporter Shawny Mack reveals […]

Frankie Edgar: The Answer is about to fight is last fight ending up his professional mixed martial career.He chooses Dominick Cruz for UFC 281 as his final opponent and wishes to fight at Madison Square Garden. Follow UFC news and UFC Live Updates with InsideSport.IN

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Frankie Edgar: Former UFC lightweight champion off to retire, eyes his last bout at UFC 281 Madison Square Garden, opts for Dominick Cruz as final legacy opponent

Frankie Edgar: Former UFC lightweight champion off to retire, eyes his last bout at UFC 281 Madison Square Garden, opts for Dominick Cruz as final legacy opponent

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Frankie Edgar’s last fight- The 40 years old fighter has accomplished his dominance in the featherweight, lightweight, and now in bantamweight. Edgar captured the lightweight division title and defended it multiple times and then moved to featherweight. Now, the former lightweight division champion competes in the bantamweight and holds 12 rank.

Edgar boasts a cast professional mixed martial arts career of 23 wins and 10 losses.Since his win to Chad Mendes,He had been toppling between with losses and wins

“I think that would be cool,” Edgar said. “It would be a pretty cool sendoff at Madison Square Garden, it’s pretty much in my backyard. I trained up in Renzo’s for so many years, it would be a pretty cool sendoff.”

“I’m never one to call anybody out or pick anybody, I usually let the UFC and Ali kind of figure that out,” Edgar said. “But I’ll say a name just because I think it’s more of a legacy fight and I know he has a fight coming up and who knows how it could happen, but I think Dominick Cruz. He was a champion at 135 when I was the champion at 155. We were both pretty much top of the division, I think that could be an interesting fight.”

“I’ve been kind of kicking the idea of retirement around since my last fight,” Edgar said. “The last couple of fights obviously didn’t go the way I wanted them to, but me, if I’m being honest I’d fight forever, you know? But that’s kind of selfish to my family and the people that care about me, so I think I need to kind of announce my retirement, have a retirement so I can sail off into the sunset a little bit.”

“I guess it’s bittersweet,” Edgar said. “It’s got to happen, I’m 40 years old, looking at 41 in a couple of months. I feel great though. I don’t feel tired going to the gym. I’m not that guy.

“I heard [Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone] saying, he just recently retired, ‘Say goodbye to abs, say goodbye to working out.’ I’m not that guy. I like working out, I like looking good. It’s a little vanity, but still, I enjoy this life. It’s not work to me. So it’s going to be tough walking away. I’ll always be in this sport, regardless.”

Frankie Edgar: Former UFC lightweight champion off to retire, eyes his last bout at UFC 281 Madison Square Garden, opts for Dominick Cruz as final legacy opponent

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