Frankie Edgar Thought Aldo Would Beat Conor | Joe Rogan

Yeah, that's the emotional side of fighting, like the emotional side of losses. Like when you see guys just weeping in their locker room. And like, remember, the hardest one for me was Aldo after McGregor knocked him out. And he was just in his locker room just weeping like, God damn that dude. That's a tough one too, because you know that's gonna stay like an infamy, you know what I mean? Yeah, forever. Connor's probably the worst guy because he's gonna tell everybody about it and everybody's gonna want to cover it. That's just the way it goes. It was such a picture-perfect punch too. Yeah, I mean... He slides back, boom, drops that left hand in there. I was in the crowd and I was... I was told I was getting the winner of that fight. And then when it went down like that, I just knew that wasn't gonna happen. Really? Yeah, I just felt it like, ah, I thought Aldo was gonna win. Back then we didn't know much about Connor, I feel like, at that point, you know? So I thought Aldo was gonna win and I was gonna get a rematch with him. And then when Connor did that and you hear him talking about, I'm gonna go up to 55, I'm like, damn, there goes my chance. Yeah, that... The Aldo fight was crazy because I think that was the first time that anybody ever really disrespected Aldo. Because Aldo was the fucking man for so long. I mean, he... The crazy thing about Aldo is he's still only 32 years old. Like we were talking about that with the Marlin fight. Right. Is he really? Yeah, I know. What do you think? I don't know. Well, they've been following him since the WEC. Yeah, I... I mean, he was like 20 then, so he kind of has to be 32. I mean, he was WEC champion a long fucking time ago, man. He was, yeah. You know, I mean, you go back and think about when he knocked out Cub Swanson with that flying knee. That was a long time ago. It was like a double knee, right? Yeah, boom, boom, yeah. Dude, he was so fucking athletic. Re-explosive. Woo, yeah. I don't know, but when did he stop throwing leg kicks? I don't know, man. I just don't... I would like to ask him. I wonder if like he's got injuries or something like that. I know when we fought the first time, he threw a leg kick, and then I took him down on it on the second one. And then he stopped. That's the last time he threw a leg kick and bolt our fights. It's crazy because if you watch his early career, like watch the Uriah Faber fight. It is one of the most horrific displays of destroying someone's leg you've ever seen in a fight. Yeah. And so fast, dude. Oh, man. Stop! Just... No loading, just... No, yeah, that's the thing. No loading. He would just whip those hips and then... Well, you know, he was a soccer player, like a really good soccer player. You ever seen videos of him play soccer? I seen him juggle the ball and whatnot. He's like a pro. Yeah. Like he could have been a professional soccer player. Right, yeah. And I think soccer players, first of all, their legs are so conditioned because they're doing all the... They're basically sprinting all the time. They're running up and running down. They're running like six miles a game, I heard. Yeah. And they're going left and right and left and right. They're always side to side. They apparently have the highest instances of ACL blowouts. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Oh, yeah. But because of those legs, Aldo, he was like a whip. Those legs would just crack. That's why I thought when him and Marlo were going to fight, I'm like, oh, we're going to see some crazy leg kicks. But neither of them really got him off. I wonder why Aldo stopped throwing leg kicks. I really wonder. I mean, he's got to be really good success with hands. He's got to be something, right? You know? Some injury. Yeah, yeah. Maybe a hip injury, you know? Yeah, could be. A lot of those kickboxer guys, as they get older, their hips start falling apart. It seems to be a big issue with some guys. John Wayne Parr needs a hip replacement. Right. I mean, he just had his last fight. He won in a boxing match. Yeah, and I saw that. Which is great. Huge for him. He's a man, dude. He's such a good guy to follow. He's such a good energy, such a positive dude. And so is his whole family. He's just a great, happy dude. His daughter's got like 30 fights ready or something. His daughter's a beast. She's a beast, man. I think she's like 14 now. She's a beast. It's crazy. Yeah, he's something special. But the poor guy, he's been fighting over the last year or two with a really fucked up hip. Yeah. Like, man, it's falling apart, man. They're like, you got to have a hip replacement. The whole inside is just torn apart. Right. So I'm not looking forward to the future, man. I'm just, you know what I'm looking forward to? The future with regenerative medicine. Well, yeah. Well, you had stem cells. I had some stem cells in my shoulder. Yeah, we talked about that in Jersey when I saw you. You don't give it enough time. The thing about the stem cells is it really takes like four or five months before it actually kicks in and starts healing things. And a lot of guys like yourself, I mean, you don't gather any dust. No. You ain't waiting for shit. You ain't waiting for shopping at the bit, man.