Only days removed from Frankie Edgar’s shocking upset over former lightweight champion BJ Penn the MMA world continues to debate the judge’s scoring of the bout, and judging by our own extremely unscientific research, it appears as though the majority of pundits are weighing in on the side of Penn (the 50-45 scoring for Edgar was more baffling than why anyone would choose to wear 90% of the MMA t-shirts that are on the market). This is not to say that Edgar doesn’t deserve a ton of respect. It was yet another amazing performance by the New Jersey fighter.
Perhaps it’s because of all the debate, surrounding the bout’s scoring, that news is surfacing today that could mean the UFC is looking at setting up an immediate rematch between Penn and Edgar. Now, albeit, the source is Penn, so, we understand if one wants to take this with a grain of salt, but speaking on his official site, the former champ claims the UFC has contacted him about possibly doing Edgar vs. Penn II.
“The UFC just called yesterday, and there’s probably a rematch in the works with Frankie Edgar. Still tentative right now, but it looks like they want to do the fight again, so, we’ll see what’s going on. Just giving you guys the heads up.”
Really, “Shogun” Rua and Lyoto Machida’s first bout was also pretty damn close, and although most had the challenger winning in that case, no one seemed to complain when the UFC rolled out with that rematch. It will be interesting to see if this is indeed what the promotion decides to do here.