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Both Sides Of The Conor McGregor Fiasco Are At Fault – And Both Have A Good Point

Following a week of back-and-forth drama, it’s safe to say that the ongoing feud between the UFC and recently ‘un-retired’ UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has reached a fever pitch, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t somehow be taken to an all-new level tomorrow. The drawn-out saga has many twists, turns, and details,

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Following a week of back-and-forth drama, it’s safe to say that the ongoing feud between the UFC and recently ‘un-retired’ UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has reached a fever pitch, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t somehow be taken to an all-new level tomorrow.

The drawn-out saga has many twists, turns, and details, but in an effort to save you, our faithful readers, some time, let’s break it down in a (short as possible) nutshell: McGregor retired online last Tuesday, Dana White responded that McGregor was pulled off of UFC 200 and his rematch with Nate Diaz after he had refused to fly to Las Vegas for last Friday’s press conference, ‘The Notorious’ then tweeted he had worked it out with his employers yesterday, to which White responded that no such thing had been worked out, and McGregor ultimately remains off the card as it now stands.

He could most certainly end up on the card, as it’s been reported that having McGregor on the massive card would provide an economic boom totaling as much as $45 million according to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, but it looks like the UFC is standing their ground on this one in an effort to no longer let ‘The Notorious’ call the shots. He’s certainly done plenty of that to this point, and it could also be argued that his desire and ability to do so is what got him in this sticky situation in the first place, as his move up a weight class to face lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos ultimately resulted in him facing and losing to late replacement Nate Diaz at UFC 196.

We’ll apparently find out if the UFC is truly booting him off of UFC 200 tonight, as MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani tweeted that fans looking to buy tickets for UFC 200 tomorrow (Wed., April 27, 2016) wouldn’t be forced to do so without knowing the main event:

It could be McGregor vs. Diaz back on the card, yet it could just as easily or even more easily be Daniel Cormier vs. Jon Jones II for the light heavyweight gold. But regardless of what UFC 200’s main event actually ends up being, at the core of the issue, it would seem that both sides have their faults in this bordering-on pointless and contrite rivalry between the world’s biggest MMA promotion and its biggest star. Let’s take a look at both points of view.

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Dana White Confirms Conor McGregor Is Officially Off UFC 200

UFC President Dana White may have repeatedly stated that his relationship with superstar featherweight champion Conor McGregor is not strained by the Irishman’s recent refusal to attend to today’s (Friday, April 22, 2016) UFC 200 press conference and subsequent short-lived ‘retirement,’ but that apparently doesn’t mean he’s going to lift his decision to remove him

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UFC President Dana White may have repeatedly stated that his relationship with superstar featherweight champion Conor McGregor is not strained by the Irishman’s recent refusal to attend to today’s (Friday, April 22, 2016) UFC 200 press conference and subsequent short-lived ‘retirement,’ but that apparently doesn’t mean he’s going to lift his decision to remove him from the midsummer blockbuster.

At the press event today, White was asked nonstop questions about McGregor’s availability for the card. He responded by noting all of the high-profile fighters wanted to be doing training rather than promoting, but that’s just not how the game works:

“Listen, I just don’t see how that’s fair, you know what I mean? He came in from Stockton day ago, Poland, Brazil, and the list goes on and on from where these fighters have come from all over the world. And I get it; it’s tough when you have to leave everything you got going on. The fight is three months away; the fight’s still three months away. That’s why we do it this early, so we try not to interfere with their training and their lives and everything else. It’s just part of the deal; these guys came. Listen, I was talking to some of the guys backstage, the fighters, they would like Conor to fight on the card too. People want Conor to fight – so do the fans, the media, you think I don’t want Conor to fight? Of course I do. But it’s just not right. You can’t not show up for this stuff. You can’t do. It’s not right.”

Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz

 

 

Continually prodded to confirm McGregor was truly out of arguably the biggest card in UFC history, a clearly annoyed White finally confirmed it:

“Yeah. Yes, Holy s***”

As for the reported news that longtime former welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre was offered a fight with top-ranked lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov, White said he hadn’t heard of anything like that:

“To the best of my knowledge, that is completely inaccurate. Yeah, I wasn’t in that meeting.”

But the discussion predictably went back to McGregor, and White was none too pleased that hose asing the questions didn’t grasp the unfairness or the UFC’s desire to not set a precedent of one fighter calling the shots.

Read on to find out what the steaming executive had to say about McGregor to the media….

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