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LAS VEGAS — Questions? He’s heard them all. Doubts? They come by the truckload.
Frankie Edgar is too small, they say.
The voices dimmed a bit when he beat Sean Sherk. Some others went away when he beat BJ Penn twice. But Gray Maynard was the final hurdle. Beat a guy who manhandled you the first time, they said, and maybe we’ll believe.
Edgar didn’t beat Maynard, but in some senses, what he did at UFC 125 was just as impressive. Edgar survived a first-round thrashing that would have finished most fighters, and fought back from a two-point deficit to force a draw, allowing him to retain his UFC lightweight belt.
And with that, the final doubters and questioners should be silenced.