{"id":189165,"date":"2025-10-09T23:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189165\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:12:03","slug":"frankie-edgar-a-little-upset-over-late-bkfc-82-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189165\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Edgar ‘a little upset’ over late BKFC 82 removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

BKFC 82 did not feature the combat sports return of Frankie Edgar as initially advertised.<\/p>\n

The former UFC Lightweight Champion was scheduled to face Jimmie Rivera<\/a> inside Prudential Center in Newark. \u201cThe Answer\u201d was removed from the card late, and many rumors swirled over the situation.<\/p>\n

Speaking to MMAFighting.com<\/a>, BKFC boss David Feldman explained the decision to pull Edgar without going into specifics on medicals.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t even know if he even wants to fight with us again,\u201d Feldman said. \u201cI think he\u2019s a little upset with us, as maybe he should be, but at the end of the day, we were looking out for his best interests. He is getting a very, very respectable check. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s mad at us for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s mad at us because we took away an opportunity from him. Again, sometimes you have to save fighters from themselves, and I\u2019m not saying that we saved Frankie from himself, but I\u2019m saying for that night, our medical team wasn\u2019t prepared for that and that\u2019s why. Will we revisit it? We\u2019ll certainly talk to him if he\u2019s interested, we\u2019ll definitely dive deep, and if we can make it happen we will.\u201d<\/p>\n

The world of bare-knuckle boxing has been known to entice the stars of the past. Edgar was set to be another name added to that list, but there were many concerns ahead of \u201cThe Answer\u2019s\u201d planned bout. Edgar admitted that members of his own family were initially hesitant<\/a> upon hearing about his return.<\/p>\n

Having prepared for a fight that didn\u2019t happen, many are wondering what Edgar will decide to do. It may come down to what Edgar is being offered and which promotion would be willing to allow him to fight. Edgar has yet to comment on what transpired with his cancelled BKFC 82 fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BKFC 82 did not feature the combat sports return of Frankie Edgar as initially advertised. The former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-189165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}