Maybe "relinquish" wasn't the correct word to describe Conor McGregor no longer having the UFC featherweight title.
The brash Irishman intimated in an interview with Ireland's RTE posted Friday that no one from the UFC asked him if he would give up the featherweight title before UFC 206 last week.
Prior to that event, the UFC announced that the main event between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis, eventually won by Holloway, would be for the UFC interim featherweight title. McGregor, the UFC said, was relinquishing the undisputed featherweight belt, to Jose Aldo, who was the interim champ after beating Frankie Edgar at UFC 200 in July.