Cub Swanson Thanks Frankie Edgar For Teaching Him A Lesson
No. 2-ranked UFC featherweight Cub Swanson saw his title hopes go up in smoke last night (Sat., November 22, 2014) when Frankie Edgar dominated him en route to a grinding fifth round submission in the main event of UFC Fight Night 57 from Austin, Texas.
But rather than let the defeat send him down a spiral of negativity, Swanson chose to take the beating as a hard lesson of top-level MMA. He met up with UFC on FOX’s Heidi Androl to give his take on the devastating loss:
“Obviously it was super frustrating. But you know, he did what he had to do and he exposed me. I was super confident and I thought I prepared and I obviously I under prepared. I want to thank him for a lesson, and I want to be better.”
Swanson will slide down the rankings in the ultra-talented UFC featherweight division, and he knows that there are some holes in his game that he’ll have to shore up if he ever wants to be considered a true top-level contender.
He’ll have to mainly improve his wrestling, as Edgar took him down at will and ground him to a pulp with elbows and punches on the mat. With featherweight populated by several stifling wrestlers, can Swanson improve enough to rise back to the top?
