McGregor vacating his UFC featherweight title was right call Gray to hang up his rodeo spurs

In my last Crunch Time column (Nov. 17, 2016), I wrote that mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, who became the first athlete to simultaneously hold a championship in two weight divisions, (featherweight and lightweight) in the UFC, was seeking to own a stake in the organization.

Since then, McGregor has gone from holding two championships to just having the lightweight belt — and he didn’t even lose the other one in a fight.

The UFC announced that McGregor vacated the featherweight championship last Saturday, Nov. 26 in favor of keeping his lightweight belt.

Jose Aldo, who won the inter...