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‘I’m gonna be fighting on my death bed’ - 40-year-old Frankie Edgar shuts down retirement talk

It’s quite a trip to look at Frankie Edgar’s resumé. The man fought at three different weight classes, won a world title in a division he was undersized in and defended it twice. At this point in his career, “The Answer” has been in there against the best of the best.

Now 40 with a total of 34 professional fights under his belt, you’d think that at the very least, Edgar would consider slowing down a bit. But that’s not the case at all.

“I’m gonna be fighting on my death bed,” the proud Toms River native told reporters during a recent pre-fight media scrum for UFC 268.