Nobody took Frankie Edgar’s loss against Jose Aldo at UFC 200 harder than Edgar’s coach, Mark Henry. In short, he took the blame for overtraining Edgar, and was gutted to see his longtime contender fall back a space or two in the 145-pound picture. Edgar was one fight away from presumably getting a featherweight title bout with Conor McGregor, whom he was promised a fight with back in December only to see it dissolve just as quick.
Now the familiar players are all gathered for UFC 205 in November, as Edgar will fight Jeremy Stephens and McGregor will try to become the first UFC fighter to win belts in two weight classes with a lightweight title shot against Eddie Alvarez.