The Speed Bag: This one's for the old guys ... maybe

On Saturday, once again Yair Rodriguez has a matchup with someone who is on the back end of his career, if not past his prime.

This time though, Rodriguez (10-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC) isn’t taking on UFC Hall of Famer B.J. Penn in a fight that sort of resembled sending a lamb into the lion’s den. He’s fighting former lightweight champ Frankie Edgar (21-5-1 MMA, 15-5-1 UFC). This one feels like a much bigger challenge for the 24-year-old on the UFC 211 pay-per-view main card at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

In the latest edition of The Speed Bag, MMAjunkie columnist Ben Fowlkes looks at the difference between those two fights for Rodriguez and his thoughts on what it might be like to see Edgar hand Rodriguez his first UFC loss. After all, Fowlkes knows what it’s like to be on the other side of 35 and how much more difficult the physical part of life gets for a regular Joe, let alone a cagefighter.

Check out the video above.

And for more on UFC 211, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

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