Mark Henry runs Sal’s Pizza & Frankie Edgar’s fists
UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar has built a solid team around him over the last few years, and one very…
UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar has built a solid team around him over the last few years, and one very important piece of the puzzle is his boxing coach, Mark Henry.
A fellow resident of New Jersey, Henry owns and operates Pino’s Pizza and has done so for the last 16 years, but his love of boxing has always been present as well.
I remember the day we did it and (his coach) was like ‘man (Frankie) doesn’t look too good’ and I was like ‘this kid’s going to be special’ and he turned out to be, Henry told MMAWeekly.com.
What happened was before (the first) Gray Maynard fight we were only hooking up once a week. I hooked up with Frankie after his first pro fight and we used to only hook up like once a week maybe, and after he lost to Gray and I said I don’t know what you’ve been doing but you need to do more boxing, you need to go four days a week if you want to do this thing serious.”
You have the potential, we have to hook up at least four days a week. Since the Gray loss we hook up religiously three to four days a week and so it hasn’t always been about the evolution, it’s just been about putting in the time.
I have a guy who is especially good …. He was amateur fighter of the year and now he’s pro 11-0. … I’d be afraid of Frankie getting killed and now he goes out and he’ll go 10 rounds with him.”
We’re the kind of camp we really try to stay humble, but me personally I’ve kind of wanted this one ever since he lost ( the Maynard rematch). I’m very competitive and you’d have to be crazy not to want a chance again at somebody you lost to. For me personally, I was always kind of hoping for this.