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Dana White Confirms Conor McGregor Taking Time Off From UFC
The historic victory earned by Conor McGregor over Eddie Alvarez in the main event of this past Saturday’s UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor pay-per-view in New York will be the last look fight fans have of “The Notorious” one inside the Octagon for a little while.
Having been spoiled by the regularity in which he fights, fans may think it’s an eternity before they see the Irish mega-star re-enter the Octagon, as UFC President Dana White confirmed in a recent interview with LATimes.com that the two-division UFC World Champion will be taking a hiatus from the sport to be with his significant other as the two are expecting the birth of their first child in May of 2017.
“He won’t fight before May,” White told the LA Times. “His girl [Dee Devlin] gets super stressed out when he fights. He doesn’t want her having any of that stress while she’s pregnant.”
White continued, explaining that there is no tension between the UFC and McGregor regarding his decision to take time away from the fight game, noting that if anyone deserves a break it’s McGregor.
“He’s good,” said White. “He should take time off. He’s been fighting nonstop. Nothing wrong with him taking time off. It’s good for him and her and it’s good for the baby.”
From there, White gave what has become his default answer over the years when asked about top stars and top draws in the UFC leaving the fight game, which is essentially to simply say, “no individual fighter makes or breaks the UFC,” even if McGregor’s entire persona is that of someone who claims and gloats about being bigger than the entire sport by himself.
“We’ve done this for 16 years, with a lot of big stars who couldn’t fight or moved on,” said White. “Chuck Liddell, Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre. There’s not a day in this office I don’t get the question, ‘What are we going to do about this guy?’ Every day I turn around, I’ve got a reporter saying we’ve peaked. If I listened to any of that, we probably would be done.”
Before switching gears and topics, the UFC boss man explained to the LA Times reporter that Ari Emanuel, an American talent agent and co-CEO of the William Morris Endeavor conglomerate, which just purchased the UFC for $4.2 billion, is “in love” with the UFC business and with the two of them at the helm, the sport’s future is secure.
“But I can tell you, we’re just getting started,” said White. “Ari is a bright, fresh-eyed guy who’s just getting into this business, and he’s in love with it.”
Check out the complete Dana White interview with the LA Times by visiting LATimes.com.
The historic victory earned by Conor McGregor over Eddie Alvarez in the main event of this past Saturday’s UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor pay-per-view in New York will be the last look fight fans have of “The Notorious” one inside the Octagon for a little while.
Having been spoiled by the regularity in which he fights, fans may think it’s an eternity before they see the Irish mega-star re-enter the Octagon, as UFC President Dana White confirmed in a recent interview with LATimes.com that the two-division UFC World Champion will be taking a hiatus from the sport to be with his significant other as the two are expecting the birth of their first child in May of 2017.
“He won’t fight before May,” White told the LA Times. “His girl [Dee Devlin] gets super stressed out when he fights. He doesn’t want her having any of that stress while she’s pregnant.”
White continued, explaining that there is no tension between the UFC and McGregor regarding his decision to take time away from the fight game, noting that if anyone deserves a break it’s McGregor.
“He’s good,” said White. “He should take time off. He’s been fighting nonstop. Nothing wrong with him taking time off. It’s good for him and her and it’s good for the baby.”
From there, White gave what has become his default answer over the years when asked about top stars and top draws in the UFC leaving the fight game, which is essentially to simply say, “no individual fighter makes or breaks the UFC,” even if McGregor’s entire persona is that of someone who claims and gloats about being bigger than the entire sport by himself.
“We’ve done this for 16 years, with a lot of big stars who couldn’t fight or moved on,” said White. “Chuck Liddell, Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre. There’s not a day in this office I don’t get the question, ‘What are we going to do about this guy?’ Every day I turn around, I’ve got a reporter saying we’ve peaked. If I listened to any of that, we probably would be done.”
Before switching gears and topics, the UFC boss man explained to the LA Times reporter that Ari Emanuel, an American talent agent and co-CEO of the William Morris Endeavor conglomerate, which just purchased the UFC for $4.2 billion, is “in love” with the UFC business and with the two of them at the helm, the sport’s future is secure.
“But I can tell you, we’re just getting started,” said White. “Ari is a bright, fresh-eyed guy who’s just getting into this business, and he’s in love with it.”
Check out the complete Dana White interview with the LA Times by visiting LATimes.com.
