Could Frankie Edgar vs. Jose Aldo Be the Next Big Fight?

Frankie Edgar's next outing could indeed be a champion-versus-champion bout, but the other champion may not be Gilbert Melendez.

It has been a long-known fact that Edgar is considerably undersized at 155 pounds. After losing to Gray Maynard in April 2008, people began to try to talk Edgar into dropping to the WEC's featherweight division.

Despite a plethora of talent in the WEC, Edgar was willing stick it out against larger opposition in order to keep fighting under the bright lights of the UFC.

Things worked out for Edgar in the end, as he defeated legendary champions B.J. Penn and Sean Sherk, and at UFC 136, he repaid Maynard by handing him his first MMA loss.

Even though things have worked out for Edgar at lightweight, the featherweight division's emergence onto the big stage and Jose Aldo's rise as a top-three pound-for-pound fighter could open the doors for a potential superfight.

"Pretty sure," UFC President Dana White told ESPN when asked if Chad Mendes was next in line for a shot at Aldo. "We'll see though. Anything's possible. Maybe Frankie calls me and says he wants to move to '45. I don't know. We'll see what happens."

At the post-fight press conference for UFC 136, White claimed that he believed Edgar was the No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

Most rankings tend to disagree with White, ranking Georges St-Pierre, Aldo and Jon Jones ahead of the lightweight champion.

"No way. That's why when they talk about [Aldo] being top-three pound-for-pound, he's got a lot of work to do," White insisted.

"Same thing with Jon Jones, too. Jones is looking good. Jones destroyed Shogun [Rua], he destroyed Rampage [Jackson], he looks phenomenal. But he's got a lot of work to do in that weight division."