Faber: ‘Dead time’ gave Edgar the win
Urijah Faber: “Could I have done some takedown attempts and try to wrestle a little bit? Yeah. But I don’t feel like it was the best move to finish the fight.”
In the main event of UFC Fight Night Phillipines, former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar earned a unanimous decision win over Urijah Faber.
Faber himself is a former bantamweight champion, and although he lost the decision, believes that Edgar only did enough to win, but not to try and finish him:
Faber told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that he felt Edgar was given the advantage on the cards due to “dead time” when he was attempting to grapple, but not necessarily doing it successfully, like up against the cage in a clinch.
“For me, that was dead time in there,” Faber said. “And that’s kind of the difference. Could I have done some takedown attempts and try to wrestle a little bit? Yeah. But I don’t feel like it was the best move to finish the fight. So that’s why I wasn’t going for as much wrestling.”