Frankie Edgar is the #1 contender in the featherweight division, but he is still not getting a title shot. Not just yet. Edgar will have to fight former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo at UFC 200 in order to get his title fight with current featherweight king Conor McGregor.
In the lead up for the fight, Aldo has been doing some serious trash talking. Maybe his media tours with McGregor have rubbed off on him. Edgar believes that and spoke with MMA Fighting about it.
“You’re seeing it across the board in all weight classes,” Edgar said. “Guys are getting more vocal. They’re just seeing what it’s done for Conor, so they’re trying to kind of make their voice heard. I think that’s what Aldo is doing.
“Arguably, you could say I haven’t lost a round since me and Aldo fought. He’s just been in some either pretty boring (fights), or wars since our fight. So, I think I’m the one who looks like he’s evolved more than Aldo has. So yeah, I don’t know. I think he’s just talking the fight up.”
“This guy is like I said. People are trying to talk. He’s just not that great at doing it, you know?” Edgar said.
“He’s just trying to create buzz, and I get what he’s trying to do, but we all know he doesn’t fight injured. The guy pulls out of fights every other fight, so he definitely doesn’t fight injured. So we can just throw that one away. And everybody talks about how our fight was close. He wants to sit there and have this false sense of security? Maybe that’s why he’s trying to talk like this because he’s dealing with this knockout loss. But, by all means, go ahead and go in there super confident.”
UFC 200 takes place at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 9, 2016. The main card will air on PPV while the prelims air on FOX Sports 1 and UFC Fight Pass.
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