Twitter is how UFC featherweight Alex Volkanovski stays up to date on everything in MMA and where he addresses the critics of his meteoric rise. It was on social media that Volkanovski got the first inkling he might be fighting former champion Jose Aldo , and where he learned Frankie Edgar – or those around him – weren’t happy about the possibility of getting passed up. Volkanovski (19-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC) sympathizes with the former lightweight champion Edgar (23-6-1 MMA, 17-6-1 UFC), but there’s no way he’ll give up the spot he believes is his with a win over Aldo (28-4 MMA, 10-3 UFC). “(Edgar is) dreaming if he thinks I’d take out Aldo in his hometown and then he gets a shot in front of me,” Volkanovski told MMA Junkie this week. “Surely that just does not make sense. “I feel bad for him, because I know he deserves it, especially with the whole (Brian) Ortega thing that happened
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