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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"It was a great fight for the fans. I'm proud of my performance and that I was able to bounce back. I'm disappointed that I didn't get the win, but we get to do it again. That will be a treat for the fans and for us too... I prepare for those fights. Those 25 minute fights. You've got to expect that those can happen. If I can walk away unscathed in a minute, obviously I'd take it. (Laughs). And those will help lengthen your career. But a fight like that with Gray has only done great things for me and my career. My legacy I guess... I come from a wrestling background myself, so I knew what Gray would do [in the rematch]. I just worked out with some really good guys. I was up at Rutgers University, working out with those guys. I trained with the Montreal Wrestling Club a little bit too and definitely stepped my game up in that area... I was disappointed [in the draw]. You prepare and you train so hard. For victory. To have a fight like that and then not win? It was disappointing. But, it happens...[Gray is] tough. There are some things we'll go back and look at for sure. I let my team do most of the critiquing and decide what adjustments I have to make. Maybe look to counter some of the stuff that he does. We've got some time before the next fight and we're already working on some things."
-UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar talks to Jonathan Snowden at BloodyElbow.com about his UFC 125 bout with Gray Maynard and preparing for their third meeting later this year.
Penick's Analysis: Edgar is a great champion, and is continuing to just trudge along while the respect from fans and fighters starts to come around towards him. After the first round of that fight, he fought a fantastic bout, and it was incredible to see him bounce back from the beating he took in that first round. And because of that performance, he's now, for the first time, favored to win a title fight heading into the third meeting, which is expected to come in May. This is going to be a great rematch to a great fight, and Edgar will be a better version of himself in that fight as well.
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