Behind the scenes at UFC 277, Yair Rodriguez and his manager negotiated with Alexander Volkanovski and his team about a potential title shot. Rodriguez had just beaten two-time title challenger Brian Ortega, and he believed he deserved a fight with the featherweight champ. There was nothing committed to paper at or after that pay-per-view. Volkanovski, after all, still eyed two-division gold. But when he formally made that choice over Rodriguez, it stung a bit for the Mexican contender. That’s when a message to the champ crossed social media: “Are you a man of your word?” “[It was] not a promise,”…