UFC Hall of Famer Frankie Edgar doesn\u2019t plan on collaborating with Bare Knuckle FC ever again.<\/p>\n
Former UFC champion Frankie Edgar was plotting a return to combat sports via bare-knuckle boxing. After retiring from MMA in 2022, Edgar entered the UFC Hall of Fame last year as one of the greatest fighters in the promotion\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Edgar was supposed to face fellow UFC vet Jimmie Rivera at BKFC 82 on the undercard of Mike Perry vs. Jeremy Stephens. But Edgar was then pulled from the fight due to medical reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n It turns out, there was much more to the story in Edgar\u2019s abrupt pullout from his BKFC 82 debut.<\/p>\n Frankie Edgar accuses Bare Knuckle FC of sabotaging planned promotional debut<\/p>\n In a recent episode of The Champ and The Tramp<\/a>, Edgar shared his version of events in what happened with his planned BKFC debut.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI gathered all my medicals and I gave them to them. I got a call from someone there, and they said the doctor from the commission reviewed your medicals, and he said, \u2018You look f\u2014\u2014 fantastic.\u2019 This was recently. This was after I knew I wasn\u2019t fighting,\u201d Edgar claimed.<\/p>\n \u201cYour MRI hasn\u2019t changed since 2021, you have no white brain matter, and that\u2019s what they look for because it signifies damage and whatnot. They even said, \u2018I don\u2019t know if you plan on doing anything, but you can tell your wife and family you have a clean bill of health if you choose to fight more.’\u201d (h\/t MMA Junkie<\/a>)<\/p>\n Edgar went on to accuse BKFC of paying him not to sue the promotion for removing him from his debut.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought BKFC had something,\u201d Edgar continued. \u201cI was like, \u2018Wow. This is pretty entertaining. They got something, but not if they treat fighters like this.\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you what: Fighters out there, beware. Listen, they\u2019re giving me something pretty much, so I don\u2019t sue them for the whole purse, you know. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Famer Frankie Edgar doesn\u2019t plan on collaborating with Bare Knuckle FC ever again. Former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,131010,52588,786,60362,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-213655","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-bare-knuckle-fc","11":"tag-david-feldman","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-frankie-edgar","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213655","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=213655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}