{"id":273315,"date":"2018-03-27T06:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=273315"},"modified":"2018-03-27T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:55:18","slug":"frankie-edgar-responds-to-concerns-about-quick-turnaround-after-ko-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/frankie-edgar\/frankie-edgar-responds-to-concerns-about-quick-turnaround-after-ko-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Edgar responds to concerns about quick turnaround following KO loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/frankie-edgar\/\">Frankie Edgar<\/a> last fought just a few weeks ago, when he was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-222\/ufc-222-results-frankie-edgar-vs-brian-ortega\/\">knocked out by surging featherweight contender Brian Ortega in the first round of the UFC 222 co-main event<\/a>. Despite this recent, concussive loss to Ortega, Edgar will fight again on April 21 in Atlantic City, where he will rematch fellow featherweight veteran Cub Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Edgar was knocked out so recently, many fans and pundits feel he should be taking a little more time off before he gets back in there. It&#8217;s the same kind of criticism Michael Bisping received for fighting Kelvin Gastelum mere weeks after he was defeated by <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar has heard these concerns, and he wants everybody to relax. He knows what he&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6yF06T\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to get in there,\u201d Edgar said on Monday&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/3\/26\/17162350\/the-mma-hour-with-frankie-edgar-cub-swanson-kamaru-usman-volkan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/3\/26\/17165126\/frankie-edgar-understands-concerns-about-quick-turnaround-i-know-what-im-putting-on-the-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting<\/a>). \u201cI know I\u2019m getting flack from people and you guys, obviously on whether I\u2019m taking this fight too soon or not, and that\u2019s fine. I [expected] it and I know what I\u2019m putting on the line here, and I feel comfortable doing it, so I\u2019m ready to go prove people wrong here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"RmzkQO\">\u201cI\u2019m the one in there. I\u2019m the one putting it on the line, and there\u2019s nothing like getting in there and getting a win to erase that last loss. And again, it\u2019ll never erase it, but at least it\u2019ll kinda help deal with that stink, and like you said, give me something positive to kinda focus on instead of focusing on the negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edgar also assured that his loss to Ortega wasn&#8217;t as bad as it looked.<\/p>\n<p id=\"kTDIpU\">\u201cI was pretty with it,\u201d he said. \u201cI recall the knockout because I didn\u2019t get turned off or anything. Even when I was going down, I knew I had a short time. In my head I was saying, \u2018Alright, short time, short time. Let\u2019s try to get through this.\u2019 But obviously he was able to capitalize on it with that uppercut. And even when I fell, as soon as the ref came over me, I said I was good, and maybe I wasn\u2019t \u2014 I\u2019m not really complaining about the stoppage, I can see why he stopped it \u2014 but I was with it. As soon as he stopped it, I said, \u2018I\u2019m good! I\u2019m good!\u2019 I was trying to argue. Obviously I needed a little help [to stand up], but I wasn\u2019t all the way out. I didn\u2019t even have a headache afterwards that night at the hotel or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Frankie Edgar&#8217;s choice to fight Cub Swanson so soon after getting KO&#8217;d by Brian Ortega?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/27\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie Edgar last fought just a few weeks ago, when he was knocked out by surging featherweight contender Brian Ortega in the first round of the UFC 222 co-main event. Despite this recent, concussive loss to Ortega, Edgar will fight again on April 21 in Atlantic City, where he will rematch fellow featherweight veteran Cub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":273318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10088],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Frankie Edgar responds to concerns about quick turnaround following KO loss | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Frankie Edgar has heard the concerns that he&#039;s fighting again too soon after his knockout loss to Brian Ortega at UFC 222.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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