If Ricardo Lamas and Frankie Edgar get their way it looks, the two highly ranked title contenders will be fighting each other sometime in May.
According to Lamas, the two have verbally agreed to fight each other, but they still have to run the idea past the UFC first.
“We’re trying to communicate with the UFC,” Lamas told MMAjunkie Radio. “It makes the most sense for my career, for his career, for No. 2 and No. 3 to go at it.”
“He said he’s good to go middle of May, and I said I was down with that,” Lamas added later. “Hopefully, Frankie’s a man of his word, and we’ll get this thing done.”
Lamas has gone 2-2 in his last four Octagon outings, alternating between wins over Diego Sanchez and Charles Oliveira, and losses to Chad Mendes and Max Holloway, leaving him placed at No.3 in the rankings.
As for Edgar, he’s lost just one of his last seven fights, coming up short for the second time in his career against Jose Aldo by unanimous decision at UFC 200 last year in a 145lb interim title fight.
Besides that blip, wins over the likes of Jeremy Stephens, Chad Mendes, Urijah Faber, Cub Swanson, BJ Penn and Charles Oliveira leave ‘The Answer’ ranked No.2 in the division, just behind current title contender Max Holloway, who fights Aldo for the belt at UFC 212 in June.
