Frankie Edgar
09/27/2016 – Frankie Edgar, Jeremy Stephens – UFC 205 Press Conference – Madison Square Garden – New York City, NY, USA – Keywords: UFC, Conor McGregor, Dana White, MMA, Tyron Woodley, Eddie Alvarez, Donald Cerrone Orientation: Portrait – False – Photo Credit: Alex Mateo / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Frankie James Edgar
Place of Birth: Toms River, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 16, 1981
Ethnicity: Italian, some German
Frankie Edgar is an American professional mixed martial artist. He competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He won the UFC Lightweight Championship in 2010, which he successfully defended it three times, challenged for the UFC Featherweight Championship twice, and the interim championship once, and then competed in the Bantamweight division. In addition to his grappling skills, he was a skilled boxer who could out-box top strikers in the UFC. He is known as “The Answer.”
Frankie is the son of Mary and Frank Edgar. He was an amateur wrestler, who wrestled collegiately for the Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he was decorated. He is proficient in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, training in Renzo Gracie’s combat team.
He is married to Renee, with whom he has three children.
He has stated:
I am mostly Italian even though I don’t have the Italian last name… My grandfather is Italian. My mother is Italian. My stepdad is 100 percent Italian and he’s the one who raised me. My parents owned a pizzeria when I was growing up. So I’m mostly Italian but also have some German in me.
Frankie’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Annese.
Edgar is a British surname.
true its british/english. but many italians, especially southern italians, were indentured servants in europe or basically slaves. so you will find some italians with germanic names taken or given to them.
Padrino, hate to say it man, but as a US History major, I’m telling you that you’re wrong. Italians came over as the “second wave” of immigration to the US. The second wave was at the end of the Civil War (1870s way after indentured servitude) and prominently had Eastern and Southern Europeans. Many went to work in tough jobs like factories, coal mines, and railroads. It wasn’t indentured servitude, but it was close. My family worked in the mines and were paid in corporate currency to shop at company stores only. Edgar doesn’t look Italian at all. Sure, France, Germany and Spain all conquered parts of Italy. A German elite ruled Sicily and Southern Italy for centuries. That’s probably why he doesn’t look mediterranean.