Frankie Edgar: Conor McGregor can’t hold featherweight ‘hostage,’ should vacate title if next fight isn’t at 145

The decision to allow Conor McGregor to vault up a division and challenge Rafael dos Anjos for the lightweight title at UFC 196 never sat well with Frankie Edgar, but Edgar could at least understand where he stood in the equation. Regardless of a McGregor win or loss, the Irishman was just 10 pounds away, and Edgar may have been vying for the UFC featherweight title by the summer.
But then dos Anjos suffered a broken foot, and overnight Edgar found himself like the rest of us, stuck riding sidec