{"id":89114,"date":"2025-08-22T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89114\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:31:08","slug":"frankie-edgar-reveals-motivation-for-fighting-return-at-bkfc-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89114\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Edgar reveals motivation for fighting return at BKFC 82"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his way out the door, Edgar lost six of his last eight fights with five of those losses coming by way of knockout. That\u2019s why combat sports fans were horrified to learn \u201cThe Answer\u201d is coming out of retirement to box for BKFC<\/a> at the Oct. 4 card in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Edgar turns 44 in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in Jersey. You guys came here. It\u2019s hard to pass up,\u201d Edgar said at the BKFC 82 press conference<\/a>. \u201cAs soon as I saw this sport I was very intrigued. I\u2019m a fighter. This is definitely the fightiest of all combat sports, you know what I mean? I had to try it out. Why not do it here? I used to fight for free at Seaside with no gloves, so why not get paid to do it here in Newark? Training has been awesome. Training just for boxing, I mean, my neck feels great. No one is hanging on my neck, my shoulders feel great. It\u2019s amazing. I said I\u2019d never fight again, and here I am, so who is going to take me for my word really? Let\u2019s see how this first one goes and we\u2019ll take it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their co-headliner will be contested at featherweight.<\/p>\n

Edgar fights former UFC bantamweight Jimmie \u201cEl Terror\u201d Rivera, 36, who already holds a 2-2-1 record for BKFC. The Oct. 4 lineup is topped by another pair of UFC veterans in the form of Mike Perry and Jeremy Stephens and their \u201cKing of Violence\u201d title fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more BKFC news and notes click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On his way out the door, Edgar lost six of his last eight fights with five of those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[29053,49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-89114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bare-knuckle-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}