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Source: DC vs Jones To Possibly Main Event UFC 200

After his dominating unanimous decision win over OSP Saturday night, Jon Jones was crowned the interim UFC light-heavyweight champion. According to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, UFC President Dana White has said that a Cormier vs Jones II bout could main event July’s phenomenal event: Dana White tells me if Jon Jones is healthy and Daniel Cormier

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After his dominating unanimous decision win over OSP Saturday night, Jon Jones was crowned the interim UFC light-heavyweight champion. According to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, UFC President Dana White has said that a Cormier vs Jones II bout could main event July’s phenomenal event:

Cormier was supposed to be Jones’ original opponent Saturday night, however an unfortunate injury suffered in training camp forced the champion to pull out of the anticipated rematch. Thus Ovince St. Preux stepped up to fight the returning Jones for the interim 205 pound strap.

Jones and Cormier’s bitter rivalry extends as far back as January of last year when the then champion Jones successfully retained his title against the undefeated olympian. Jones was then scheduled to defend his title against Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, however a hit and run incident resulting at the hands of Jones caused the UFC to suspend him indefinitely and strip him of the title.

Cormier would step in to fight “Rumble” for the vacant title, winning it in the third round via submission. Cormier would even go on to successfully defend his title against Alexander Gustafsson.

With the UFC’s original McGregor vs Diaz II main event falling through, the card is in desperate need of a huge main event. The dynamic rematch between two of the greatest light heavyweights of all time for the biggest prize in the sport is certainly a worthy main event.

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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.”

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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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Nate Diaz Had One Simple Reply For Conor McGregor’s Press Conference Troll

In news that will surprise absolutely no one, the absence of recently un-retired Irish featherweight champion Conor McGregor was the foremost topic of discussion at today’s (Friday, April 22, 2016) UFC 200 press conference from Las Vegas. McGregor famously tweeted out his retirement earlier this week after choosing to remain in Iceland training for his

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In news that will surprise absolutely no one, the absence of recently un-retired Irish featherweight champion Conor McGregor was the foremost topic of discussion at today’s (Friday, April 22, 2016) UFC 200 press conference from Las Vegas.

McGregor famously tweeted out his retirement earlier this week after choosing to remain in Iceland training for his scheduled rematch with Nate Diaz at UFC 200, and then rescinded it in a heated statement made to his Facebook page yesterday.

The ultra-popular Irishman also took a moment to make the presser all about him, tweeting out his ‘respect’ to the fighters that made it, but at the same time noting that they had not made the UFC $400 million dollars in the last eight months:

ESPN’s Brett Okamoto caught wind of McGregor’s post and asked Diaz about it. When Diaz, who submitted McGregor in shocking fashion at March 5’s UFC 196, was told what McGregor had said, he had one simple reply:

“Conor got his ass beat.”

As for the now-scrapped rematch fight with McGregor, Diaz revealed he didn’t even want the fight, but was focused on preparing for ‘The Notorious’ — and him alone — once it became clear that was the decision the UFC was going with:

“I came to fight Conor McGregor, and I don’t have any, too much interest in anyone else. I don’t have any interest in fighting at all, but if that’s what we’re gonna do, I thought we were gonna do it.”

UFC President Dana White seemingly half-heartedly guaranteed that Diaz vs. McGregor II was off of UFC 200 as of right now, he also repeatedly focused on the fact that the July 9 is still three months away.

We’ll have to wait and see if the UFC’s hardline stance on McGregor lightens in any way, but for ‘Notorious,’ Diaz’ stinging words will always remain true, at least for their first fight.

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UFC 200 Press Conference LIVE Now

With all of this week’s drama surrounding July 9’s blockbuster UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) event from the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, the press conference that feahterweight champion Conor McGregor was pulled from his awaited rematch with Nate Diaz for is finally here. Obviously McGregor won’t be here as he made clear

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With all of this week’s drama surrounding July 9’s blockbuster UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) event from the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, the press conference that feahterweight champion Conor McGregor was pulled from his awaited rematch with Nate Diaz for is finally here.

Obviously McGregor won’t be here as he made clear in his scintillating statement yesterday, but all of the other big-name fighters like Frankie Edgar, Jose Aldo, Miesha Tate, Cain Velasquez, Cat Zingano, Julianna Pena, and more will be on hand to get the promotion rolling for the mid-summer spectacle.

Watch the full press conference event live from Las Vegas right now:

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Nate Diaz Reacts To Conor McGregor’s Latest UFC Callout….And It’s Hilarious

In a week absolutely dominated by the hasty retirement and then un-retirement of UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, we’ve heard precious little from Nate Diaz, the man who recently destroyed ‘The Notorious,’ at March’s UFC 196 and was set to rematch him in the main event of July’s UFC 200 until McGregor was unceremoniously pulled.

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In a week absolutely dominated by the hasty retirement and then un-retirement of UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, we’ve heard precious little from Nate Diaz, the man who recently destroyed ‘The Notorious,’ at March’s UFC 196 and was set to rematch him in the main event of July’s UFC 200 until McGregor was unceremoniously pulled.

Diaz quickly spoke up this Tuesday when McGregor issued his original puzzling retirement tweet, but other than that he had remained relatively quiet on the subject as countless top fighters were prodded for their opinion on McGregor while the drama overshadowed every bit of coverage for this weekend’s UFC 197.

That is, until now.

When McGregor issued a response boasting his accomplishments and putting the ball in the UFC’s court last night, Diaz tweeted and deleted his own response, but it still showed up on Jake Shields’ Instagram. Check it out here:

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That’s certainly going to draw the ire of McGregor fans everywhere, who believe that the UFC asked him to do far too much promotion for his fights which in turn prevented him from training like he needed to in order to win. However, Diaz has the right to talk a bit of smack himself, because even though McGregor is still the most talked-about personality in MMA, he did slay him.

We were going to have a chance to see if McGregor could avenge that loss at UFC 200, but the promotion has apparently decided to pull McGregor off the card altogether. Will we ever see Diaz rematch MMA’s most polarizing star?

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UFC Officially Calls Off Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz Despite Statement

It looks like the UFC isn’t buying Conor McGregor’s in-depth statement about his ‘retirement’ earlier this week. McGregor took to Facebook earlier today to state that he wasn’t retired and to clear the air with his employers in a sense, but according to a report from TMZ, the promotion won’t keep him in the main

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It looks like the UFC isn’t buying Conor McGregor’s in-depth statement about his ‘retirement’ earlier this week.

McGregor took to Facebook earlier today to state that he wasn’t retired and to clear the air with his employers in a sense, but according to a report from TMZ, the promotion won’t keep him in the main event of UFC 200 against Nate Diaz.

In his statement, McGregor repeatedly stressed the rigors of the nonstop promotional whirlwind that he feels partly lead to his shocking and disappointing defeat to Diaz at March 5’s UFC 196.

McGregor wanted more time to focus on his training coming off of a loss, and went to Iceland to isolate himself. When his management was told he would have to make it to the presser, he balked and issued his now-infamous retirement tweet on Tuesday. While he’s obviously debunked what many thought was a myth in the first place, it isn’t enough to save his headlining spot on arguably the UFC’s biggest card ever.

It’s highly debatable if the event will reach that lofty status without McGregor, yet the early indications are the UFC is done with letting McGregor call the shots regardless of how their media schedule interferes with his training.

UFC President Dana White appeared on ESPN stating that they had pulled McGregor from the event because he refused to take part in a press conference, but said the UFC would listen to McGregor and possibly let him fight on the July 9 blockbuster from Las Vegas if he contacted him.

He must not have contacted him, and the UFC apparently didn’t feel that his lengthy statement on Facebook was enough of an explanation.

There are going to be multiple viewpoints on this one, as McGregor’s many legions of fans are certainly going to understand that he just wanted some time to get better to avenge his most disappointing defeat, and then the opposing side will insist that the brash Irishman should do what is required by his employers due to the many millions he makes.

Which side are you on?

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