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| Frankie Edgar |
An opportunity to fight for a
championship can be a life-changing event for UFC fighters. It's why
Georges St-Pierre once so famously dropped to his knees in the Octagon
and pleaded with UFC management to give him a title shot.
Former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar knows full well its value, but he's not going to grovel for a chance at a title.
Edgar will meet Cub Swanson on
Saturday in the main event of a card at the Erwin Center in Austin,
Texas, but nothing is guaranteed for him, even with a win.
UFC president Dana White has
promised Swanson a shot at featherweight champion Jose Aldo if he's
victorious Saturday, but he has yet to extend the same courtesy to
Edgar.
But instead of begging publicly,
or venting to the media, the low-key Edgar will take the same approach
that has worked so well for him as he's fashioned a 16-4-1 mark in his
mixed martial arts career.
He plans to fight so hard, and
make his bout so memorable, that he hopes White will have little choice
but to give him another crack at the belt.
"If I keep on doing the right things, they can't keep refusing me,"
Edgar said. "I know that and they know that. I can take the decision out
of their hands by going out there and winning and putting on the kind
of fights people want to see.
"I don't think I need to create a
lot of drama or put on a show in order to do it. Listen, they [UFC management] wants the best fights they can put together, so it all comes
out the same way. Eventually, if you keep doing the right things, they
won't have a choice but to pick you."
Edgar has long been one of the UFC's best and most exciting fighters. He's regularly engaged in some of
the promotion's most memorable fights.
He gave Aldo one of the sternest
tests of his long reign as featherweight champion, and some even
thought Edgar deserved the win. - Yahoo.com
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