JRE MMA Show #88 with Frankie Edgar

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Boom. What's up, Frankie? How are you, brother? Good to see you, man.

Frankie Edgar (0:03)

Good to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Good to have you. We talked about this many times.

Frankie Edgar (0:05)

We have.

My buddy, Chris LaGuard, I got to shout him out because he got me listening to you years ago, and he's been telling me to come on this podcast forever. So I'm glad to finally get it done. So shout out to Chris. I know he's listening.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Hi, Chris. So you got your own podcast now?

Frankie Edgar (0:21)

I do. Me and Roger Matthews from Jersey Shore fame. He was the ex-husband of J.

Wow. So the champ and the tramp. Champ and the tramp. That's what you guys call it.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

That's hilarious. That's hilarious. So what's happening, man? You just got off of the Chan Sung Jung fight.

Frankie Edgar (0:38)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

And what's next? What are you up to?

Frankie Edgar (0:40)

I'm going to go down 35

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Yeah.

Frankie Edgar (0:42)

You know, how much do you walk around at? I'm probably like 56 right now. Wow. You know, so for 45

Joe Rogan (0:48)

Well, Marlon's got to be bigger than you, right?

Frankie Edgar (0:50)

Marlon is about a little bit bigger than me. Yeah, I think so. I think he walks around a little heavier.

He's a little bit more of an eater than I am.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Dude, that guy, I have a hard time believing he makes 35 sometimes. You look at him. He's so jacked.

Frankie Edgar (1:01)

He's got such a small waist, though, but his legs and shoulders are so big, but his waist is kind of small, so maybe that's how he carries it.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

So have you done a cut like that before?

Frankie Edgar (1:09)

I haven't been, but I mean, in my last fight, I think I was, you know, getting down to 45, got down to like 44.5. I mean, it's only 8 1⁄2 over where I got to be to make 36, and it was such an easy cut for this last time.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

So you're in an interesting situation, man, because like you won the title at 55, and you didn't cut any weight at all. And a lot of people were like, well, fuck, man, Frankie Edgar can do it. Because the thing about you at 55 was you were so durable. Like that was one of the craziest things about some of your fights, like the Grey Maynard fights, like fucking A-Man.

Who repped those fights?

Frankie Edgar (1:43)

Eve Levine.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Both of them?

Frankie Edgar (1:44)

No, the first one. The second one I think was Josh Rosendahl.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

Well, shout out to both of those guys, because a trigger-hungry referee who's got an itchy trigger finger, they would have stopped those fights.

Frankie Edgar (1:56)

Now, I think nowadays, some of them might stop it.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah.

Frankie Edgar (1:59)

Back then, I feel like they let it go a little more. I mean, of course, there's still sometimes they let it go a little too long now. It all changes.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

You never know. It all changes. It's such a weird thing, right? It's like the referee is trying to help the fighter. They're trying to make sure that the fighter doesn't take unnecessary damage.

But more than once, you see fights stopped where you're like, oh, that guy wasn't done.

He was getting through a bad patch, and that's part of what a fight is about. It's like trying to figure out how to survive.

Frankie Edgar (2:26)

For sure. I always want to benefit the doubt. I don't want to get unnecessary punishment, of course.

But I'd rather get the benefit of that. I've never been turned off. Even with Ortega and Shang Zhong fight, both those fights, even though I got rocked in my other fights, these fights I kind of was more coherent.

I'm not complaining about the stoppages or anything like that. I could see why they stopped it. But in the great fights, even the Benson and Henderson fight where I got upkicked, I don't remember any of those fights. I don't remember like three, four rounds of those fights.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

Just because it was so wild, because of getting hit?

Frankie Edgar (3:00)

Yeah, because I got hit, and I kept getting hit maybe. Maybe that's why I didn't remember.

The Ortega fight, I got rocked pretty good, and I remember in my head saying, all right, just short time left. Let's get through it. Let's get through it. Obviously, didn't make it to the end.