At least you admitting you suffer from memory loss. Aldo was offered a rematch at 155, not a title rematch.
Also, Aldo near clearing out the FW division means nothing in terms of Conor clearing it out.
I'll help refresh your memory a little bit, Conor has never defended a title before because he understands risk management. He could have fought Hollaway, who was on an 8 fight winning streak, instead of RDA, but that would be of no advantage to Conor. Conor nuthuggers will say this is because he already beat him, even though Hollaway was only 21 at the time. Conor then could have fought against Edgar, who would've recovered from his injury by then, but again, too risky of a fight for Conor with such little reward. The other option would've been to give Aldo his immediate rematch, something that every dominant champion before had received.
To point out one last thing, I rooted for Conor in the fight against Aldo, and I was a fan of his up until the past year. But when I see everything about the sport being changed for one person, it makes me no longer a fan. I'm sure a lot of the other hardcore fans feel the same way. I was hoping that I was going to witness a JBJ like run out of Conor, not whatever this year has been. Don't get me wrong, it's been fun, but hardly legendary.
I do recall this now, (Aldo offered Conor at 155 non-title) not rematch at FTW for the belt. My bad! With you help to jog my failing memory however, it is clear that the reason that the fight that the UFC offered Aldo vs. Conor being in the LW division had ZERO fault for McGregor that had been preparing for the LW title fight at 155 when RDA chickened out mere DAYS before the title 155 fight.
While you are 100% correcting me, admit that I am also right! IF. Big IF here, the UFC allowed RDA to pull out of his 155 title defense (LAST FREAKING SECOND) that Conor had been preparing for, and attempted to "force" him to lose an additional 10 pounds to make the 145 limit (where he was prepared for 155!!!), do you think Conor would have made weight?
Really, I ask honestly, do you feel that there would have been "anything" that could have been "misconstrued" of as "right" punishing Conor for RDA's utter failure days in advance of his contracted LW title fight?
Would you have been ecstatic and be less pointing the finger of "blame" if Conor's team did agree that they would attempt to do any and everything short of killing their fighter requesting them to lose an additional 10 pounds at the last second, and Conor coming in a 146 pounds missing weight for the last second LW - FTW title presto chango resulting in no fight period occurring that evening.
OK, Yes there was no more reason for Aldo to help bail Dana's ass out of the shitter for RDA magician pulling being a last second disappearing act than the man on the moon. That said, I don't understand your point where Conor is more obligated to cover Dana for RDA's last second disappearing act than it is to blame or punish Aldo?
Can we at LEAST agree that in this circumstance, RDA is 100% to blame, and Aldo & McGregor are 0% to blame.
The ONLY reason that I also hold Aldo in the same (light) as RDA is he has an even far worse track record pulling out AT THE LAST SECOND! (I would DEARLY like to see BOTH fired from the UFC and go to some limp dik some minor league MMA organization pulling their last second magician disappearing acts from title fights!
Better yet, Rogan should give them the "talk" about a career in standup if magical disappearing acts are their specialties).
I do however recall now the reason for the 155 LW fight offer to Aldo from McGregor and agree that it was not in Aldo's best interest to accept the fight. I still am seriously unclear as to what you believe that the UFC and McGregor were suppose to do after RDA pulled out last second. Thoughts?