Every fighter wants to say that they walked away on a win. That they knew just when to hang up their gloves and that they ended their career exclusively on their own terms. Reality is rarely ever so kind.
Unfortunately for Frankie Edgar, that’s a lesson he learned full well this past Saturday night at UFC 281 on the PPV main card. Set up against surging bantamweight Chris Gutierrez, Edgar found himself on the wrong end of his third-straight knockout loss—just two minutes into the first round. After the bout, even Gutierrez seemed a bit broken up by what he’d just done to the former lightweight champion.