{"id":178644,"date":"2015-12-09T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=178644"},"modified":"2015-12-09T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:00:32","slug":"frankie-edgar-shares-his-thoughts-of-jose-aldo-being-an-underdog-against-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/frankie-edgar-shares-his-thoughts-of-jose-aldo-being-an-underdog-against-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Edgar shares his thoughts of Jose Aldo being an underdog against Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though former UFC lightweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/frankie-edgar-vs-chad-mendes-tuf-22-finale-headliner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frankie Edgar has his own fight against Chad Mendes<\/a> that isn&#8217;t getting as much media hype this week, he still hasn&#8217;t pushed away the reporters when asked about the featherweight championship fight between Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E1U00ArNgCk\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Noise<\/a> on his thoughts on Aldo being the underdog going into the featherweight title fight this Saturday (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2015\/12\/8\/9872122\/ufc-194-frankie-edgar-calling-jose-aldo-the-underdog-against-conor-mcgregor-ridiculous-mma\" target=\"_blank\">Transcribed by MMA Mania<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to go with Aldo, he&#8217;s been on top for so long. I&#8217;m surprised that he&#8217;s the underdog, I think that&#8217;s kind of ridiculous, the guy hasn&#8217;t lost in a really long time. Anything can happen, McGregor has definitely been holding his own in there and doing it in pretty good fashion. But, I think Aldo is going to take it. Yeah, you just can&#8217;t talk about it if you don&#8217;t back it up because you will be forgotten about and people won&#8217;t want to hear what you&#8217;re saying. He&#8217;s been backing it up. I think he&#8217;s had some good matchups for himself and some favorable situations where Chad&#8217;s coming in on short notice, but, this is going to be the biggest test for him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who are you betting on in the Aldo versus McGregor matchup? <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/poll-who-are-you-picking-in-the-jose-aldo-vs-conor-mcgregor-scrap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click <strong>here<\/strong> to vote<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\" target=\"_blank\">BJPENN.COM<\/a> poll and to see the results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar has his own fight against Chad Mendes that isn&#8217;t getting as much media hype this week, he still hasn&#8217;t pushed away the reporters when asked about the featherweight championship fight between Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar. 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