Boxing coach: Edgar should go to 135 lbs.
“Maybe four years ago, we wanted him to fight at 135, 145,” Henry told the SiriusXM Fight Club on Monday,…
“Maybe four years ago, we wanted him to fight at 135, 145,” Henry told the SiriusXM Fight Club on Monday, “but there was no [weight] class [at that time] and I think at 155 he was champion, so he wanted to go down on his own terms.”
“Me personally,” Henry continued, “I’d like to see Frankie for like a year to take a rest on his back and his body to fight people at 135 to do what everybody in the whole MMA community is [doing] and suck him down to nothing, looking like their death the day of the weigh-in and fight people that weigh as much as him.”
For now, though, Henry just wants Edgar to receive credit he believes the former Clarion University wrestler doesn’t get for competing against significantly larger men. In a sport where weight cutting is rampant, Edgar is fighting and beating most men Henry believes are up to two weight classes larger than him – something no one else in the sport is doing.
“What he’s doing now I don’t think he gets enough credit for,” Henry insisted. “You’re talking about guys that weigh 155-160 – what he walks around at – even when he isn’t training. Who’s doing that? That would be like Ben [Henderson] fighting Anderson Silva. That’d be like Jose Aldo calls out Frankie and he walks around at 170, too. That’d be like him fighting George St. Pierre.”
“He walks around and he’s 157,” Henry continued. “He comes back from Disneyland after his last fight or two fights ago and he’s 157, 158 or 159. I don’t think Frankie gets enough credit for what he’s accomplishing and doing in MMA.”
