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Coach: Conor 'not worthy' of fighting Edgar
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Frankie Edgar's head MMA coach Mark Henry appeared recently on </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">John Franklin's S</span>unday<span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> Morning </span>Cornerman<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">, and spoke about UFC featherweight Conor McGregor. among a number of other topics. Henry was at UFC 196 cornering</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> Corey Anderson, who got a decision win over Tom </span>Lawlor, but he kept a close eye on McGregor's loss to lightweight Nate Diaz, at welterweight.</p>
Henry called attention to the fact that Frankie Edgar too switched divisions, and was in fact the lightweight champion.
“I think Frankie was going to fight Aldo and Conor was going to fight for the 170-pound belt,” said Henry, as transcribed by CombatPress. “I don’t know what’s going to happen with Conor now, whether it’s Aldo or Frankie, but I definitely think Frankie deserves it more.”
“People this weekend were saying how amazing Conor is by going up. Well, Frankie is 15 pounds less than Conor and was the 155-pound champion. People need to get that in their head when talking about this awesomeness of Conor McGregor. If McGregor is this awesome fighter for going up and getting crushed, Frankie must be the best fighter to ever walk on the planet.”
“[McGregor] didn’t go up two weight classes,” Henry pointed out. “He fought a 155-pound fighter, and Frankie has dominated that weight class. Conor couldn’t even get past the first 155-pound fighter he faced. At the end of the fight, he was saying something like, ‘I don’t know if Frankie is worthy of fighting me.’ I think it’s the other way around. I don’t think Conor is worthy of fighting Frankie.”
“I think from that fight we know why Conor and the UFC don’t want him to fight Frankie. This guy gasses out and Frankie would just maul this kid. Frankie isn’t afraid to throw strikes and has good movement. There’s a lot of things Conor does to fighters that he wouldn’t be able to do to Frankie.”
“In today’s MMA, Frankie is a 135er. He’s a little bit smaller than our world champion, [WSoF bantamweight champ] Marlon Moraes. He was fighting big guys at lightweight. Guys like [Gray] Maynard, who was walking around at 185 pounds. Benson Henderson is a pretty big guy. I didn’t want Frankie standing in front of these big guys, so I came up with a lot of movement for him, setting up shots and things of that nature.”
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