The Answer looks to be hanging up the gloves in his next and final UFC/MMA fight.
The former Lightweight champion and future UFC Hall of Famer has decided to make the walk one final time.
Battling the idea of retirement at first, Frankie Edgar wants to have a legacy fight with former Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz whether they’re successful or not in their upcoming fight vs. Marlon Vera who was the most recent man to defeat Edgar.
“I’ll say a name just because I think it’s more of a legacy fight,” Edgar told ESPN. “I know he has a fight coming up and everything, and who knows how it can happen if it goes down, but I think Dominick Cruz. He was a champion at 135 when I was a champion at 155, still both pretty much top of the division. I think that could be an interesting fight. But again, he’s got a fight coming up against ‘Chito,’ so we’ll see what happens.”
Edgar would like to continue fighting, however for the sake of friends and family, he would like to officially make his retirement following one more fight.
“I’ve been 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. If I’m being honest, I’d fight forever, but that’s kind of selfish to my family and to the people that care about me. I need to kind of announce my retirement so I can have a retirement fight and sail off into the sunset. I enjoy this life. It’s not work to me, so it’s going to be tough to walk away. I’ll always be in this sport, regardless.”
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