White: Edgar looked 'pretty damn good,' but won't get title shot yet

Frankie Edgar's performance against Pedro Munhoz impressed UFC president Dana White.

Edgar made his long-awaited bantamweight debut in the UFC Fight Night main event on Saturday in Las Vegas. "The Answer," a former lightweight champion who's also competed at featherweight, took home a split-decision win after a competitive affair.

"The career that the guy has had has been unbelievable," White said during the postfight press conference. "The fact that he's still performing the way that he's performing at his age and the wars that he's been through and all the things that he's accomplished, yeah, I'd say he looked pretty damn good tonight."

However, White believes the fight could've gone either way.

"It was close," he said. "If (the judges) had said Munhoz, I wouldn't have said, 'Oh my God, that's crazy.' Either one of those guys could've won that fight."

Despite upsetting the No. 5-ranked bantamweight contender, White said Edgar won't skip the line and get the next title shot.

"Obviously, there's some things that have to play out, and there's people ahead of him," White said, adding that Edgar would need one or two more wins to earn a title shot. "He put on a good showing tonight, put himself in a good position, but he's got some work to do there."

Some doubted Edgar prior to the fight because he's 38 years old and was riding a two-fight skid. But White said the former champ proved on Saturday he's still an elite fighter.

"He just fought the No. 5 guy in the world, and he won," White said.