{"id":110176,"date":"2025-09-01T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110176\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:17:07","slug":"frankie-edgar-admits-family-members-initially-opposed-bkfc-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110176\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Edgar admits family members initially opposed BKFC debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frankie Edgar is coming out of combat sports retirement<\/a>, but those close to him weren\u2019t gung-ho about the idea at first.<\/p>\n

\"Frankie<\/p>\n

Most within the MMA community have said that Edgar has nothing left to prove. The former UFC Lightweight Champion has beaten the likes of the legendary BJ Penn, Charles Oliveira, Urijah Faber, and Yair Rodriguez to name a few. Edgar felt the need to take on a different challenge as he gets closer to the age of 44.<\/p>\n

Edgar will be competing on the BKFC 82 card on Oct. 4. He\u2019ll be taking on fellow ex-UFC fighter Jimmie Rivera, who has five bare-knuckle fights on his resume. Appearing on MMA Junkie Radio<\/a>, \u201cThe Answer\u201d revealed that his closest family members weren\u2019t initially on board with his decision to return to prizefighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy close family definitely was against it,\u201d Edgar said. \u201cFor sure, my wife, my kids, my parents, but I talked them into it, I guess you could say. At least enough for me to get the OK. I don\u2019t know if I got their blessing, but I got the OK.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey think I don\u2019t need it. I don\u2019t need to do this. I\u2019m not searching for pennies or anything under the couch. It\u2019s not that I need it. They get who I am. My wife knew what she got into when she signed up for this a while back. She knows the kind of person I am, and I\u2019m sure this is not too surprising for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edgar hasn\u2019t competed since Nov. 2022 when he was knocked out by Chris Guti\u00e9rrez<\/a>. At the time of his retirement, many agreed that \u201cThe Answer\u201d had given all he could to MMA. It won\u2019t be long before fans find out if Edgar has some juice left in the world of bare-knuckle boxing.<\/p>\n

BJPenn.com will keep you updated on the BKFC 82 card leading up to fight night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie Edgar is coming out of combat sports retirement, but those close to him weren\u2019t gung-ho about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-110176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}