Frankie Edgar woke up last Thursday to an afternoon surprise of the red panty variety.
Edgar, the UFC’s former lightweight champion, was unexpectedly named in an Instagram post in which Conor McGregor proclaimed that he asked to fight Edgar on short notice at UFC 222 in an effort to save the March 3 pay-per-view following the injury withdrawal of Max Holloway. McGregor wrote that he was “excited about bouncing in last minute and taking out the final featherweight, without all the rest of the stuff that comes with this game,” but ultimately the UFC turned down his offer because, as McGregor claimed, “there wasn’t enough time to generate the money that the UFC would need.