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Dana White: Conor McGregor Competing At 170 Pounds Is Unfair

Since beating former longtime champion Jose Aldo in just 13-seconds at December 2015’s UFC 194, reigning champion Conor McGregor has yet to defend his title. Instead, he’s competed at welterweight twice in a bitter rivalry with Nate Diaz. Now, multiple rumors have surfaced indicating that McGregor could potentially headline November 12’s UFC 205 from New

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UFC President Dana White recently said that the “Notorious” one ‘could’ go to lightweight, but that once again going to welterweight would be ‘unfair’:

“At the end of the day, he’s a 145-pound fighter,” White said (via MMA Weekly). “He could go to (lightweight), but going back up to 170 makes absolutely no sense, and it clogs up the entire division, which isn’t fair to the rest of the crew.”

After McGregor scored a majority decision victory over Diaz in their rematch at August 20’s UFC 202, White said that he wouldn’t be making an immediate trilogy match, and that McGregor would have to move back down to 145 pounds to defend his strap. While the Irishman may not be defending his title right now, it looks as if White has stuck to his word regarding a third McGregor-Diaz bout:

“I made that fight twice. That’s it. It’s time to move on because (McGregor) has the 145-pound title.”

Who would you like to see McGregor take on next?

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Dana White Says McGregor Fighting At 170 Pounds Isn’t Fair To Rest Of Division

During the fight week media rounds for the UFC 203 pay-per-view last weekend, UFC President Dana White spoke about Conor McGregor’s future once again.

White reiterated his point about McGregor needing to drop back down to defend his UFC Featherweight Championship in his next fight or give up the title, when asked if he was considering an immediate third fight between the Irish mega-star and his recent rival, Nate Diaz.

“I made that fight twice. That’s it,” said the UFC boss. “It’s time to move on because [McGregor] has the 145-pound title.”

White continued, sharing his belief that McGregor fighting at 170 pounds again not only holds up the 145 pound division where he is currently the world champion, but isn’t fair to the rest of the 170 pound division either.

“At the end of the day, he’s a 145-pound fighter. He could go to [lightweight], but going back up to 170 [pounds] makes absolutely no sense, and it clogs up the entire division, which isn’t fair to the rest of the crew.”

McGregor last fought at last month’s UFC 202 pay-per-view, defeating Diaz in their 170-pound rematch. His last fight at 145-pounds was his stunning 13-second KO of former champion and reigning interim featherweight champion Jose Aldo, which took place at the UFC 194 pay-per-view back in December of 2015.

H/T to MMAWeekly.com for transcribing the above Dana White quotes.

During the fight week media rounds for the UFC 203 pay-per-view last weekend, UFC President Dana White spoke about Conor McGregor’s future once again.

“I made that fight twice. That’s it,” said the UFC boss. “It’s time to move on because [McGregor] has the 145-pound title.”

H/T to MMAWeekly.com for transcribing the above Dana White quotes.

Anthony Pettis Interested In Fighting Michael Johnson Or Jose Aldo

Following his knockout victory over Dustin Poirier at the UFC Fight Night 94 event on Saturday night, Michael Johnson is now finding himself the subject of a challenge issued by a former UFC Champion.

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Johnson knocked out Poirier in the first round of the event held at the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas this weekend, and afterwards, spoke about wanting that “Conor McGregor money.”

After indicating that he would like a big money fight, it didn’t take long for a well-known name to chime in with an offer.

Former UFC Lightweight Champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis took to Twitter after last night’s event to make it clear that he is willing and ready to take on fights with the likes of Johnson and/or Jose Aldo, who also mentioned his name recently.

“UFC, I’ll take Michael Johnson or Jose Aldo,” wrote Pettis on social media after UFC Fight Night 94.

@ufc I'll take @FollowTheMenace Or @josealdojunior

— Anthony Pettis (@Showtimepettis) September 18, 2016

Gall Didn’t Find Out About “Mickey” Entrance Music Until It Began Playing At UFC 203

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Apparently Mickey Gall found out about Dana White’s decision to green light the use Toni Basil’s “Mickey” for his UFC 203 entrance music the second the first chord hit the speakers in the Quicken Loans Arena last Saturday night.

Gall, who spoiled the party of CM Punk, beating the former WWE Superstar in his first Octagon appearance at the event in Cleveland Ohio last weekend, spoke with Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of “The MMA Hour” at MMAFighting.com about the fun surrounding his choice of music for his walk to the cage.

“Then I started hearing the beginning of that song,” Gall said of the moment he realized they did, in fact, use his choice of music after initially telling him they wouldn’t be. “I looked at them like, ‘Did they switch it? Is this me? Am I going now?’ And then they’re like, ‘Yep, we’re rolling, let’s go.’ So I found out right there when everyone else did.”

Prior to finding out that they went with the music, Gall was under the impression, per orders of White, that he must choose something “harder” to come out to.

And then the fans got involved.

White admitted to Gall leading up to the event that the fans had been all over his case about allowing him to use the “Mickey” song after all.

“Dana told me, ‘Hey dude, I’m getting f*cking abused online for this ‘Hey Mickey’ stuff,'” Gall said “I think the people online, it shows you guys are heard. We’ve got a voice out there.”

For video highlights of Mickey Gall vs. CM Punk from UFC 203, click here.

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Prior to finding out that they went with the music, Gall was under the impression, per orders of White, that he must choose something “harder” to come out to.

And then the fans got involved.

White admitted to Gall leading up to the event that the fans had been all over his case about allowing him to use the “Mickey” song after all.

For video highlights of Mickey Gall vs. CM Punk from UFC 203, click here.

UFC Fight Night 94 Reebok Sponsorship Payouts: Evan Dunham Leads Pack

UFC Fight Night 94 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money. The main event was Michael Johnson vs. Dustin Poirier while the co-main event featured Derek Brunson vs. Uriah Hall. Rounding out the main card was Evan Dunham vs. Rick Glenn, Roan Carneiro vs. Kenny

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UFC Fight Night 94 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money.

The main event was Michael Johnson vs. Dustin Poirier while the co-main event featured Derek Brunson vs. Uriah Hall. Rounding out the main card was Evan Dunham vs. Rick Glenn, Roan Carneiro vs. Kenny Robertson, Islam Makhachev vs. Chris Wade, and Maximo Blanco vs. Chas Skelly.

The full payouts include:

Michael Johnson: $10,000 def. Dustin Poirier: $15,000

Derek Brunson: $10,000 def. Uriah Hall: $5,000

Evan Dunham: $15,000 def. Rick Glenn: $2,500

Roan Carneiro: $5,000 def. Kenny Robertson: $5,000

Islam Makhachev: $2,500 def. Chris Wade: $5,000

Chas Skelly: $5,000 def. Maximo Blanco: $5,000

Gabriel Benitez: $2,500 def. Sam Sicilia: $10,000

Belal Muhammad: $2,500 def. Augusto Montano: $2,500

Antonio Carlos Junior: $5,000 def. Leonardo Augusto Leleco: $2,500

Jose Quinonez: $2,500 def. Joey Gomez: $2,500

Randy Brown: $2,500 def. Erick Montano: $2,500

Alejandro Perez: $2,500 vs. Albert Morales: $2,500

UFC Fight Night 94 took place on Saturday, September 17th, 2016 in Hidalgo, Texas at the State Farm Arena. The UFC Fight Pass prelims featured two bouts at 7 p.m. ET and the FOX Sports 1 prelims featured four bouts at 8 p.m. ET. The main card featured six bouts at 10 p.m. ET.

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CM Punk Helps Boost UFC 203 PPV Numbers: How Many Fans Ordered The Show?

It looks like CM Punk’s “one-and-one” appearance inside the Octagon was a pretty big event with the casual MMA fans.

According to Dave Meltzer at MMAFighting.com, CM Punk’s Octagon debut against Mickey Gall helped drive a lot of casual buys to the U…

It looks like CM Punk’s “one-and-one” appearance inside the Octagon was a pretty big event with the casual MMA fans.

According to Dave Meltzer at MMAFighting.com, CM Punk’s Octagon debut against Mickey Gall helped drive a lot of casual buys to the UFC 203 pay-per-view event earlier this month.

Early estimates have the UFC 203 PPV, which featured Stipe Miocic vs. Alistair Overeem for the UFC Heavyweight Championship as the actual main event, drawing between 425,000-475,000 buys.

While not an enormous success, the show was ordered more than average UFC pay-per-view events. Meltzer noted in his report that Punk’s fight was likely responsible for an additional 125,000-225,000 buys.

To put the 425,000-475,000 buys figure into perspective, the UFC 198 event in Brazil, which was an incredibly stacked show for die-hard MMA fans, and also featured a UFC Heavyweight Title fight as the main event (Fabricio Werdum vs. Stipe Miocic), reportedly drew less than 300,000 buys on pay-per-view.

Headlined by Stipe Miocic vs. Alistair Overeem and featuring Fabricio Werdum vs. Travis “Hapa” Browne 2 and CM Punk vs. Mickey Gall, UFC 203 took place on Saturday, September 10, 2016 from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.