UFC legend Frankie Edgar’s return from retirement ended earlier than it actually started.
On Wednesday, Edgar was pulled from his return combat at BKFC 82 on Saturday after he was not cleared to compete. Edgar was initially scheduled to face fellow UFC veteran Jimmie Rivera on the cardboard.
BKFC president David Feldman confirmed that the promotion finally determined to tug him from the occasion over medical issues, though there’s an opportunity he should compete for the bare-knuckle promotion sooner or later.
“After additional evaluation with our medical officer, we determined that Frankie Edgar was not going to compete this Saturday,” Feldman stated. “We’re going to look into it and see what his future seems like however he won’t be competing this Saturday.”
Rivera remains to be anticipated to compete on the cardboard towards alternative opponent Timmy Mason. NJ.com initially reported the information
The information comes after Edgar’s stunning return to motion after he introduced his retirement forward of his ultimate UFC combat again in 2022.
The New Jersey native and former UFC light-weight champion known as it a profession after struggling a trio of knockout losses and since that point he’s opened a fitness center and labored as a coach serving to different fighters.
When BKFC introduced plans to carry an occasion in New Jersey, Edgar’s curiosity was piqued and he finally signed a contract to make his return on Saturday regardless of family and friends displaying issues about him preventing once more.
“My spouse was just a little involved with me doing this as effectively,” Edgar informed MMA Preventing in September. “I’ve been doing this for thus lengthy, it’s powerful to stroll away. I’m not going into this naïve. I perceive the dangers. I’m prepared to take that probability, I suppose you possibly can say. The juice has acquired to be well worth the squeeze and I really feel like it’s.
“They had been all just a little towards it actually. I acquired my spouse on board possibly. Possibly she’s not completely satisfied about it, however she ain’t going to go away me, I suppose. That’s a plus. The children, my boys sort of perceive it. My daughter positively will not be too cool with it however yet one more time and we’ll see the way it goes.”
BKFC president David Feldman admitted he had preliminary issues about even signing Edgar to the promotion till he went to look at him in sparring forward of the combat towards Rivera.
“I went as much as watch him spar and I’m fully offered on it. 100%,” Feldman informed MMA Preventing. “It’s a unique Frankie Edgar. It’s a lightweight on his ft Frankie Edgar. It’s a quantity punching Frankie Edgar. It’s a hard-punching Frankie Edgar. I noticed all the pieces I wanted to see.
“The one factor I used to be searching for this weekend, I simply wished to ensure his legs didn’t appear like they had been in quicksand they usually weren’t. He was transferring round on his ft, he’s punching, placing punches collectively, he seemed good. Doing all the pieces I wanted him to do and I used to be proud of it.”
Edgar hasn’t straight addressed his removing from the cardboard but and it stays to be seen if he nonetheless plans on getting back from retirement sooner or later.
