{"id":187157,"date":"2016-02-24T08:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=187157"},"modified":"2016-02-24T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:41:22","slug":"frankie-edgar-pissed-at-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/frankie-edgar\/frankie-edgar-pissed-at-the-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Edgar “pissed” at the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday after Rafael dos Anjos withdrew<\/a> from his UFC 196 lightweight title fight against Conor McGregor less than 2 weeks from the event, many top contenders began to campaign<\/a> for the slot opposite McGregor on March 5th.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, one of those men wasn’t Frankie Edgar, who has been campaigning for a fight against McGregor for quite some time. Edgar tore his groin and has been unable to train for the past 4 weeks, leaving him no choice but to turn down the fight.<\/p>\n

He spoke to MMAFighting<\/a> to discuss the injury, and why he’s pissed at the UFC.<\/p>\n

“I got a call from Ali saying that Rafael Dos Anjos got hurt, and [the UFC] had texted him, \u2018will Frankie fight him at 155?\u2019 And, I\u2019ve been hurt for the past four weeks. I\u2019m pissed off for a couple of reasons. I\u2019m pissed off that I\u2019ve got this opportunity slip through again. I\u2019m sitting here, I\u2019m the one who\u2019s been trying to fight this guy for months now. I\u2019m flying myself to Vegas on my own dime to lobby to get a fight with this guy and now here comes the opportunity, and I\u2019m hurt and I can\u2019t take it. I haven\u2019t done anything in four weeks. I didn\u2019t just pull my groin, I tore it. I sent Dana and everyone in the UFC my MRI.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m even more pissed that Dana\u2019s insinuating that I \u2018refused\u2019 to take this fight, which is bullshit. Just because they asked me doesn\u2019t mean they were going to give it to me because guess what, in July they asked me to take the [UFC 189] fight on 15 day\u2019s notice, which of course I accepted, and I still didn\u2019t get it.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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