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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"The fighter that I am will present a challenge for B.J... I'm just a little bit different with the way I approach my stand-up and my wrestling ability... Florian tried to implement GSP's game plan a little bit, and [the lightweights] are not GSP. Nobody is. Diego was going too forward on him, and when he got rocked in the first flurry in the first round, his game plan was tough to get back to... I don't think you can say, 'I'm going to be able to beat [Penn] standing' because if I say I have the advantage standing, for sure he's going to look to take it to the ground. If he has the advantage standing, I'll be looking to take it to the ground. B.J. can do it all. I just have to be well versed in everything."
-UFC Lightweight Championship challenger Frankie Edgar talks to MMAJunkie.com about his belief that he'll present a challenge to B.J. Penn along with what went wrong for Penn's last two challengers.
Penick's Analysis: He at least knows he's going to need to be on in every facet of his game coming into this one, and that's a good first step, but it's a tall task for anyone to pose much of a threat to B.J. in the lightweight division, no matter how well rounded they are. I think Edgar does have the tools to hang with the best of the best in the division, and I think he'll make it competitive with B.J. here, for a time, but Penn is just too good and has simply been unstoppable at 155 over the last couple of years. I hope we get a great fight out of these two, and hopefully Edgar can make this one more competitive than Florian and Sanchez were able to do, it just may not end up being the case in the end.
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