Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive
Old-school MMA fans still say plenty of great things about Yves Edwards. He appreciates it, in a way.
A part of him likes the fact that people still remember his string of dominant years around the middle of the decade. And it’s nice to hear some of them say that, had the UFC had a lightweight title in circulation back then, he might very well have held it.
It’s nice, but it’s not enough. Not now.
“People can say I was the uncrowned lightweight champ, but it sucks being the uncrowned champ of anything,” he says. “You don’t have the belt, and you never had it. I can’t put ‘uncrowned lightweight champion’ on my resume. That hurts so bad. That really still hurts, to tell you the truth.”