The MMA community praised Frankie Edgar after his brutal knockout loss to Chris Gutierrez at UFC 281.
It may not have been “The Answer” the Garden crowd wanted at the end – not by a long shot – but Frankie Edgar's MMA career has come to a close.
Gutierrez made sure the storybook ending would not happen on his watch on Saturday night in New York.
Chris Gutierrez ended Frankie Edgar's legendary career with a brutal knockout after he connected with a jumping knee strike in the first round at UFC 281.
After his first-round loss to Chris Gutierrez at UFC 281, former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar is hanging up the gloves.
Edgar found himself in trouble during their trilogy bout at UFC 136 but ultimately got a win and retained the title with a fourth-round knockout. Edgar defeated Pedro Munhoz in his divisional debut but entered UFC 241 off back-to-back knockout losses against Cory Sandhagen and Marlon “Chito” Vera. He then dropped down to featherweight and challenged then-champion Jose Aldo at UFC 156, losing by decision. Penn for the UFC lightweight championship at UFC 112. After an NCAA Division-I Wrestling career at Clarion, Edgar made his professional MMA debut in July 2005. “I love everybody; you guys make this awesome.”