Frankie Edgar’s final career appearance in the Octagon did not exactly go according to plan. Edgar endured a brutal knockout loss to Chris Gutierrez at UFC 281, addressing the loss on his podcast The Champ and the Tramp. Toughest of all for Edgar was the knowledge that his children were only a few meters away from the cage as he was toppled.
“You saw [the knockout], everybody saw it. It f****** sucks but how can I complain to be honest. People were cheering my name the whole time, before, during, after. I know I work hard to get where I got. Like f****** hard, very hard. I sacrificed a lot my whole life.
Frankie Edgar “Heartbroken” Over Knockout Loss in Final Fight
I put my all into my athletic career since day one but who the f*** am I to complain? There’s people out there that work hard and they just make it by. I know both sides of that. I’m just trying to be grateful for what I accomplished. Grateful for the ride I had.” Edgar continued, expressing concern about “scumbag” kids messing with his own children.
“I didn’t want my kids to see me go out that way. My family there, all that stuff. Cause they’ve got to go deal with it, too.
My kids are old enough now where kids are scumbags. I’m not going to say where, who or which kid but one of my kids does something in their group and one of the group kids starts taking s***, saying this and that. Either that kid’s being a young scumbag kid or his parents don’t teach him no f****** manners. Whatever, they’re kids in the end but it sucks my kids got to deal with it.”
Gutierrez ended the fight with a terrifying flying knee, which Edgar gave his opponent credit for. “Either I’m slowing down a step or I just don’t see f****** nothing up the middle. Damn, the last three up the middle. I guess I don’t have to worry about that stuff no more.
But again, I’m a very prideful person and all these people ‘my chin, his chin, his chin.’ I don’t know if my chin’s that bad. I know how I am in the gym. That first combo hit me with that spinning back fist. It was pretty f****** hard, I ate it pretty good. Knees and kicks are just a different animal. I didn’t see them coming either but I’ve got nothing to be ashamed of and I’ve really got nothing to hang my head about.”
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