Frankie Edgar: One Tough SOB

by Jonathan Snowden on Dec 4, 2009 2:40 PM EST

Promoted to the Front Page by Zak Woods, photo via assets.heavy.com

There's tough, and then there is Frankie Edgar tough. Heavy.com had the chance to sit down with Edgar (I was sitting down at least. He was in Vegas doing God knows what) and talk about his fight and his mindset the day before weigh ins. We had tons of great stuff about how he keeps his mind right before he fights and what the future holds at 155.

But that's not what stood out to me.

It was this passage, showing the will of the warrior, that made me realize Frankie Edgar is as tough as they come.

Heavy.com: Can you talk a little about your mental toughness? I was so impressed in your very first fight in the Octagon where you refused to lose to Tyson Griffin. Did tapping cross your mind?

Frankie Edgar: I didn't think about it then. I felt I was up on the judge's scorecards and knew there wasn't a lot of time left. That isn't to say I would never tap, but I was willing to let him pop my knee out, to give that up, to get the "W."

Heavy.com: But in the right situation, with three minutes to go in a round and you're stuck in an armbar-you would tap? Only Renzo Gracie is crazy enough to never tap.

Frankie Edgar: (Laughs) I don't know man. Right now I can say yes. For sure I would. But in the middle of a fight with all the adrenaline? I'm a pretty competitive person. I guess we'd have to find out. Hopefully we never will.