{"id":108108,"date":"2014-08-13T05:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=108108"},"modified":"2022-02-06T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:26:36","slug":"swanson-wants-edgar-fight-on-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/swanson-wants-edgar-fight-on-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanson Wants Edgar Fight On FOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/quick-twitt-swanson-vs-siver-for-number-one-contender-ufc-news\/ufc-on-fx-pearson-v-swanson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49450\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"UFC on FX: Pearson v Swanson\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cub-swanson-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cub Swanson and Frankie Edgar don&#8217;t want to sit and wait for Chad Mendes and Jose Aldo to fight for them to know who will be the #1 contender.  They want to find out themselves by having an elimination match for the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson spoke on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to beg anyone else and say \u2018please please Dana give me the title shot,'&#8221; Swanson said. &#8220;Because its like, I&#8217;m showing up, I&#8217;m fighting in great fashion. I believe the fans like my style. That should be all. I let my fighting do the talking, I don&#8217;t have to put on great show and dance to make it bigger than it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting older,&#8221; Swanson said. &#8220;I want to fight the big fights, I feel like I deserve to do that. Frankie Edgar is a big name, as long as we could get that fight on a big fight like a FOX card, I&#8217;d be up for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically I earned the title shot a couple times now,&#8221; Swanson said. &#8220;But the problem is I&#8217;ve been the odd man out every time. They keep telling me to wait, wait, I ended up waiting a whole year, I got Jeremy Stephens. Tough guy, way better than that number that was next to his name. To wait out a whole year again, I just don&#8217;t want to do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is I&#8217;m not guaranteed the title shot,&#8221; Swanson said. \u2018I&#8217;m told, but there are no guarantees, because, what if Mendes beats Aldo? I just feel like they&#8217;re going to give him an immediate rematch, like every longtime champion. So then I&#8217;m going to be asked out again. Another thing is, what if Aldo wins and gets injured? It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m waiting a year and a half. So I think the best thing for me, as long as there is a big fight, lets do it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cub Swanson and Frankie Edgar don&#8217;t want to sit and wait for Chad Mendes and Jose Aldo to fight for them to know who will be the #1 contender. They want to find out themselves by having an elimination match for the spot. 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