Jose Aldo & Frankie Edgar Gang Up To Trash Conor McGregor

From FOX Sports, H/T LowKickMMA Frankie Edgar puts McGregor on blast for ducking him:

“(Conor McGregor) didn’t respond to anything. He’s so quick with his tongue and he didn’t respond to anything I was putting out there talking about the fight so I did feel that he was going to stay up and try to get that rematch with Nate.” 

On the fight with Aldo:

“Well, Dana (White) called me yesterday actually. I heard speculation that’s what they might want, but nothing concrete and then Dana called me yesterday and asked me. My reaction, I said yes. What the (expletive) am I going to do?”

“Let’s just call it the No. 1 contender belt cause that’s what it really is,” Edgar said. “But I’ll play the game. They did it for Conor, they gave him a belt and if I’ve got to play the whole Conor game to make sure I get this fight, I’m OK with it.”

On McGregor vs Diaz 2:

“I think it might a little bit longer because Conor will reserve a little bit more, but ultimately I think it’s going to end the same way, or similar fashion at least,”

On whether Conor McGregor comes back to featherweight:

“I don’t know. I don’t think so,” Edgar said about McGregor returning to featherweight. “I don’t know if a win will make him come back, maybe a loss he’d have to come back. Two losses in a row that’s supposedly up two weight classes — it’s 155-pounders not wanting to cut weight is what it really is. He’ll lose a lot of that value I think.

“The more losses you tack on — you’re going to have a champion come back after a two-loss stint up a weight class? It just doesn’t all add up to me.”

“The title is definitely what I want. If he never comes back down, I end up becoming champion, I’m a two weight class champion — something he’s trying to do,” Edgar said about McGregor. “Maybe I’ll just have to chase him up to 170 to make that fight, to make that payday. Especially if I have the belt he never defended, why not?

“We can defend it at 155 or 170 if it makes him feel better, but honestly the focus needs to be on Aldo so I’m not too worried about Conor right now.”