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Conor McGregor Has A Message For The UFC

He’s at it again. UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has re-emerged from the social media shadows once more to give UFC brass a piece of his mind about the upcoming UFC 200 card, including the Cormier vs Jones II rematch scheduled to replace the Irishman’s original main event spot. As most already know, McGregor was originally scheduled

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Nobody gives a fuck about these other fights until this one is settled. Cut the bullshit. Run it back. #RealFight

A video posted by Conor McGregor Official (@thenotoriousmma) on May 1, 2016 at 4:21am PDT

As most already know, McGregor was originally scheduled to rematch Nate Diaz in the main event of UFC 200 after the Stockton native handed ‘Notorious’ his first UFC career loss back in early March.

McGregor, however, refused to attend a press event in Vegas claiming it would interfere with his training for the upcoming rematch. ‘Notorious’ and UFC President Dana White’s bumping of heads would lead to the removal of the Irishman from arguably the biggest card in the promotion’s history.

White would go on to fill the vacant main event slot with another high profile rematch, with UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier defending his title against former 205-pound king Jon Jones.

McGregor’s original opponent, Nate Diaz, has expressed that he refuses to fight anyone but the Irishman at UFC 200 or else he’s taking a vacation.

While McGregor has officially been pitted as being a non-possibility for July’s monstrous event, White has stated the Irishman is a possibility for UFC 201, 202, 203 etc.

Another interesting match scheduled for UFC 200 is an interim featherweight title bout between Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar. McGregor will more than likely take on the winner of that bout in his next scheduled Octagon appearance.

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Coach: ‘Fraud’ Conor McGregor Needs To Let Go Of ‘Binkie’

Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie “The Answer” Edgar will finally receive another shot at a featherweight title in the co-main event of July 9’s UFC 200 from Las Vegas, Nevada. However, it won’t be the undisputed title that he and his team has been gunning for, as reigning champion Conor McGregor has put the division

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Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie “The Answer” Edgar will finally receive another shot at a featherweight title in the co-main event of July 9’s UFC 200 from Las Vegas, Nevada.

However, it won’t be the undisputed title that he and his team has been gunning for, as reigning champion Conor McGregor has put the division on hold with his quest for success at heavier weight classes.

Instead, Edgar will rematch ex-champion Jose Aldo for the interim 145-pound strap.

Edgar’s boxing coach, Mark Henry, recently spoke on the situation, comparing McGregor to his young daughter, and insinuating that the Irishman needs to let go of his title:

“Everybody keeps stoking up Conor so much, but Frankie is also trying to go for his second belt, too, and this guy- the thing with my daughter growing up, she was a great kid, but she wanted the baba and the binkie and the blankie (and) she was scared,” Henry told MMAjunkie Radio. “She just wouldn’t get rid of it and held on tight to that. And I think Conor needs to let go of that baba and the binkie and just let go of the 145-pound title.”

McGregor is indeed coming off of a disappointing loss to Nate Diaz at last March’s UFC 196 in a welterweight bout, but he’s also currently riding a seven-fight win streak at featherweight which was capped off by a stunning 13 second knockout over Aldo last December.

While his rise to fame was monumental to say the least, he was also heavily criticized on his way to capturing a world title.

Many felt as if McGregor, a powerful knockout artist, was handed opponents that fit right into his style, having seemingly avoided the division’s best wrestlers on his emphatic rise.

Henry agrees with this theory:

“I don’t know if Conor’s taken that route. In the military, I think it would be a good job for Conor (clearing) landmines. Somehow he missed (Darren) Elkins, somehow he missed (Clay) Guida, somehow he missed (Dennis) Bermudez, somehow he missed (Ricardo) Lamas, somehow he missed (Chad) Mendes with a full camp. Somehow he missed Frankie.”

“Fraud. That’s been his path. Frankie’s gone a different path.”

If Edgar can get passed Aldo in July, McGregor may have no choice but to finally clash with “The Answer”.

How would you see that fight playing out?

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A Look Into Conor McGregor’s Troubled Ground Game

Over his entire mixed martial arts (MMA) career, the ground game of featherweight champion Conor McGregor has always come into question with every defeat, and even every victory. “The Notorious One’s” current professional MMA record currently sits at 19-3, with each loss coming by submission. McGregor suffered his first ever MMA loss against Artemij Sitenkov

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McGregor suffered his first ever MMA loss against Artemij Sitenkov via kneebar in June of 2008. Two years later, McGregor met fellow Irishman Joe Duffy and lost the fight to an arm-triangle choke early in the first round.

These two losses fueled McGregor, who knew he would need to improve on his ground game in order to succeed at the next level. The Irishman would go on to earn his brown belt in jiu-jitsu under SBG head coach John Kavanagh.

The UFC received its first taste of McGregor’s ground game in August of 2013 against fellow featherweight contender Max Holloway. McGregor dominated Holloway on the ground and cruised to an easy unanimous decision victory, however, it was later revealed McGregor injured his knee in the bout and fought the majority of it with the torn ACL.

This proved to make his performance on the ground all that much more impressive. It also it left the lingering fact that we hadn’t seen his ground game while at one hundred percent. It should also be noted that Holloway isn’t known to be a ground fighter.

The Hawaiian currently only has a blue belt in jiu-jitsu as opposed to McGregor’s brown belt. The MMA world finally got a true look at McGregor’s ground game when he took on Chad Mendes at UFC 189.

Mendes completely dominated McGregor on the ground, bludgeoning him with ruthless elbows and cutting him open for the first time in the Octagon. But Mendes was unable to keep up the grinding pace, which McGregor capitalized on and KO’d Mendes in the closing moments of the second round.

Mendes was taking McGregor down at will and exposed major holes in the Irishman’s game, but it was later revealed McGregor fought through the bout with an injured knee and was again not competing at one hundred percent.

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UFC Owner ‘Never Thought’ Conor McGregor Would Give Him Problems

In all of the recent chaos of featherweight champ Conor McGregor’s ‘retirement’ and UFC-imposed withdrawal from his scheduled rematch with ate Diaz in the main event of July 9’s UFC 200, UFC President Dana White has largely kept things professional by insisting the promotion’s relationship with ‘The Notorious’ is still strong. While that may not

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While that may not be what we’re accustomed to from the normally outspoken White, there have been some rumblings in the MMA world that it wasn’t his idea to pull the ultra-popular McGregor from the historic card. Supposedly that call came from UFC co-owner and Las Vegas icon Lorenzo Fertitta, and he apparently revealed a bit of discord with McGregor in a recent conversation with longtime UFC referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy.

McCarthy stated on his “Let’s Get It On” podcast that he spoke with Fertitta backstage at last weekend’s (Sat., April 23, 2015) UFC 197, and the prominent exec was surprised that a fighter making so much money was actually giving him problems:

“I talked to Lorenzo Fertitta at UFC 197, standing in the back, and we started talking. He said, ‘I never thought that when I had a guy who was guaranteed ten million dollars I would have a problem with him.”

It could be a great point from Fertitta, who’s understandably focused on McGregor’s pay, the first fighter to ever receive a flat $1,000,000 purse for his loss to Diaz this March and countless other millions in pay-per-view (PPV) revenue and endorsements.

McGregor has routinely said his decision to skip the UFC 200 press conferences is not about his profits but rather his need to get back to training full-time in order to beat a bigger opponent. However, that’s just part of the game, and he had no problem spouting off at every single presser when he was knocking out smaller fighters in rapid succession.

He rapidly rose to the position of MMA’s biggest drawing star, yet the UFC’s owner is miffed that he is a headache given his already sky-high paydays. This is a situation that’s unlikely to go away anytime soon, but perhaps ‘The Notorious’ would be rise to keep his employer happy.

Do you believe he should, or are you happy a fighter finally stood up to the world’s foremost MMA promotion in a big way?

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Robbie Lawler vs. Rafael dos Anjos? Lightweight Champ Spells It Out

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UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos is still looking to prove himself the most dominant 155-pounder on the planet. Having defeated Donald Cerrone in his first title defense at the tail end of 2015, he now has his sights set on Eddie Alvarez on a Fight Night card just two days before UFC 200. The Brazilian has plenty of contenders to worry about at lightweight, especially Khabib Nurmagomedov who defeated dos Anjos back in 2014. The dialogue between the two rivals was reignited when ‘The Eagle’ made a successful return against Darrell Horcher, but threats from other divisions are ever present.

Super fight?

Super fights in the UFC have become more of a pipe dream than an actuality during the promotion’s history, with only a select few ever coming to fruition. Very rarely do we see two titles on the line, but we did nearly see Conor McGregor attempt to make himself the first dual weight champion in the UFC. Fighters such as Randy Couture and BJ Penn had won belts in consecutive divisions, but never at the same time. The mark that would be left by such an unparalleled achievement are unfathomable, but surely the first man or woman to etch their names on to that coveted page of MMA history would rocket up everyone’s list of the ‘Greatest of all time.’

Rafael dos Anjos was the man that ‘The Notorious’ would have challenged for the 155-pound strap, until ‘RDA’ was forced off the UFC 196 card injured and replaced by Nate Diaz. The subsequent submission loss to Diaz scratched McGregor from any immediate plans for a two weight championship reign, but the talk of super fights is not done yet.

Look one weight division above dos Anjos, and you have one of the most exciting UFC fighters, let alone champs, on the promotion’s roster. Welterweight champion Robbie Lawler has become a mixed martial arts icon with his thrilling UFC fights and subsequent rise to the top of the 170-pound division.

‘RDA’ is no stranger to this fact, and has made it obvious he wants to fight ‘Ruthless’ in the near future…

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Chael Sonnen Says John Kavanagh Screwed Things Up For Conor McGregor

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On the latest episode of his “Beyond The Fight” podcast, former UFC title contender Chael Sonnen addressed his belief that Conor McGregor’s coach John Kavanagh recently handled a major situation the wrong way.

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According to Sonnen, Kavanagh “outed” McGregor in the way he handled the ongoing situation between them and the UFC.

As Sonnen explains, McGregor knew what he was doing when he pulled recent negotiation tactics that resulted in him being pulled from the upcoming landmark UFC 200 event in July.

“His coach cannot be putting anything out about him ever. Period. Ever. Because he doesn’t get it. Respectfully, coach Kavanagh, You don’t get it. You don’t get it! Your student does. He gets it. Conor knows what’s going on. Every time you talk and think you’re helping him, you’re not. You’re hurting the cause. You have to stop! Conor cannot put a post saying ‘money made, bills paid, game slayed, your move,’ which means ‘I do not care what happens, I’m handled either way. It’s your move.’ He can’t do that and three days later have you come out saying hey fans, please petition and get him back. You can’t do it! It’s never good for a trainer or manager to do this. Whether it comes from a good place or not, you look like you’re trying to get paid. If one guy is sitting there, and the whole hand he’s playing is ‘I got enough, I don’t need to do it, won the title, got the money, don’t care, having a great life.’ If he’s playing that, that’s a pretty good hand. But you can’t show cracks in it. You’re talking about UFC 200, UFC New York, and why we’re blacklisted. Wait a minute, I thought the game was slayed, the bills were paid, and the money was made? That was their move! Now you’re begging to get on a card? You guys have got to get on the same page. You want to hustle some hustlers, you better believe you’ve got to be on the same page! You can’t have one guy say I don’t give a damn, and have his trainer say ‘boy, we sure would like to fight, can someone send some tweets in our favor?’ It doesn’t work! Once there’s a crack, it’s unraveled, and the gig is up! You want to fight. You need the fight. The bills are not paid, the money is not made, and the game damn sure hasn’t been slayed. That’s the reality. We all knew that, and it was cool when it came out, but your own guy outed you.”

UFC 200: Cormier vs. Jones II is scheduled for Saturday, July 9, 2016 at the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

H/T to BloodyElbow.com for transcribing the above quote.