told MMA Fighting in September.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019ve been doing this for so long, it\u2019s tough to walk away. I\u2019m not going into this na\u00efve. I understand the risks. I\u2019m willing to take that chance, I guess you could say. The juice has got to be worth the squeeze and I feel like it is.<\/p>\n\u201cThey were all a little against it honestly. I got my wife on board maybe. Maybe she\u2019s not happy about it, but she ain\u2019t going to leave me, I guess. That\u2019s a plus. The kids, my boys kind of understand it. My daughter definitely is not too cool with it but one more time and we\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
BKFC president David Feldman admitted he had initial concerns about even signing Edgar to the promotion until he went to watch him in sparring ahead of the fight against Rivera.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went up to watch him spar and I\u2019m completely sold on it. 100 percent,\u201d Feldman told MMA Fighting. \u201cIt\u2019s a different Frankie Edgar. It\u2019s a light on his feet Frankie Edgar. It\u2019s a volume punching Frankie Edgar. It\u2019s a hard-punching Frankie Edgar. I saw everything I needed to see.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing I was looking for this weekend, I just wanted to make sure his legs didn\u2019t look like they were in quicksand and they weren\u2019t. He was moving around on his feet, he\u2019s punching, putting punches together, he looked good. Doing everything I needed him to do and I was happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edgar hasn\u2019t directly addressed his removal from the card yet and it remains to be seen if he still plans on returning from retirement in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC legend Frankie Edgar\u2019s return from retirement ended before it really began. On Wednesday, Edgar was pulled from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,32940,52367,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-183773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bkfc","11":"tag-bkfc-news","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183773","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=183773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}