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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 3340130, member: 23910"]
Yeah that's one of the things people seem to forget - Aldo had literally beaten every other contender in the division.  Twice, in the case of Chad Mendes.  Nobody at the time had any reasonable expectation of rematches with Edgar or Swanson going differently (which is why there was that aborted talk of Aldo moving up to 155 in the first plac).  So even if Conor wasn't, y'know, Conor he probably still would've got a shot at the title because really, who else was going to get it?

I'm honestly wondering, who would you need to have seen Conor beat before getting his shot to think it was "deserved"?  Mendes?  Edgar?  Swanson?  Two of those three?  All three of them?

And who was Aldo supposed to fight in the meantime?

The reality is McGregor had a stronger record and a much longer win streak coming into the initial Aldo fight (that became the Mendes fight) than either Ricardo Lamas or Chan Sung Jung when they fought Aldo for the title.

Was it the strongest, most "deserved", ironclad claim to a title shot in the history of the sport?  No, of course not - but those are more rare than I think you're caring to admit.  [i]Could[/i] they have made Conor get another win before fighting Aldo?  Sure, if they hated money AND they had someone else credible for Aldo to fight.  But neither of those things were the case.

So let's not pretend it was a horrible call or something that hasn't happened dozens of times before in the sport.  Champions need challengers and Conor made sense.  And as I mentioned earlier with Lesnar, it's not even close to the most egregious example of someone getting a title shot just because it'd do big business...
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