Tag: Max Holloway vs. Anthony Pettis

Dana White: It Was Conor McGregor’s Decision To Vacate Title

Last weekend, the UFC announced that Conor McGregor had ‘relinquished’ his 145-pound title after winning the promotion’s lightweight title just a week prior. Accomplishing his goal to become the UFC’s first simultaneous two-weight world champion, the Irishman had previously said that it would take an ‘army’ to take one of his titles, but obviously the

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Last weekend, the UFC announced that Conor McGregor had ‘relinquished’ his 145-pound title after winning the promotion’s lightweight title just a week prior. Accomplishing his goal to become the UFC’s first simultaneous two-weight world champion, the Irishman had previously said that it would take an ‘army’ to take one of his titles, but obviously the UFC had other plans.

Oddly enough, McGregor has yet to comment on the matter, which transpired after the UFC promoted a featherweight co-main event bout at UFC 206 (Dec. 10, 2016) between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis to a main event interim title bout, while making Jose Aldo, the man McGregor knocked out in 13 seconds last December, to undisputed champion.

Yesterday (Dec. 1, 2016), UFC President Dana White further explained the decision to Yahoo Sports:

“Look, I let Conor fight [Nate] Diaz and then, I let him fight Diaz again,” White said. “Then, there was the whole 155-pound thing I let him do. But at the end of the day, him doing that tied up the division for a year. There’s a logjam there and a lot of guys were [angry].

“This was my way to fix the logjam. I wanted Aldo to fight Holloway for the belt, but he needed more time. So I looked at it and I said, well, it makes sense to make Aldo the champion and then have Holloway and Pettis fight for the interim title, and when Jose’s ready, barring any crazy injuries, the winner can fight him.”

What’s still unclear regarding the whole situation, is whether or not it was the “Notorious” one’s decision to give up the title. His longtime head coach John Kavanagh said that the decision was solely made by the UFC, but White said otherwise:

“He’s [Kavanagh] misinformed,” White said. “Yeah, he doesn’t know all that has gone on, I guess. Do you think I just did this? This was Conor’s decision.”

Do you agree with White’s comments?

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John Kavanagh Reacts To Conor McGregor Being Stripped Of Title

Conor McGregor hasn’t yet commented on the UFC stripping him of his featherweight title, but his longtime coach John Kavanagh recently did and it’s safe to say that Kavanagh is ‘disappointed’ in the way things unfolded: “It was more the UFC (who decided),” Kavanagh said in an appearance at the Red FM breakfast show. “For

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Conor McGregor hasn’t yet commented on the UFC stripping him of his featherweight title, but his longtime coach John Kavanagh recently did and it’s safe to say that Kavanagh is ‘disappointed’ in the way things unfolded:

“It was more the UFC (who decided),” Kavanagh said in an appearance at the Red FM breakfast show. “For me personally, I was very disappointed with how they went about doing it.”

McGregor, who most recently won the lightweight title at Nov. 12’s UFC 205, hadn’t defended the 145-pound title since winning it last December, but that may not have been the main reason behind the UFC’s decision.

Rather, the promotion needed a new main event for Dec. 10’s UFC 206 after light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier was forced to withdraw from his scheduled rematch with Anthony Johnson. The UFC then elected to bump the co-main event, a featherweight bout between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis, up and make it for the interim title, while promoting Jose Aldo to undisputed champion.

“It was a very messy set of circumstances which led to doing it,” Kavanagh said. “They lost a main event and then they haphazardly threw together a new main event.”

“They felt they had to make this for a title in order for it to sell so they brought in another interim title that Jose Aldo already has and then bumped Jose Aldo up to the current undisputed champion. Which just seems ridiculous to me.”

It was Aldo, after all, that McGregor brutally knocked out in just 13 seconds last December, and Kavanagh simply feels as if the UFC was ‘shortsighted’:

“Conor has only been 11 months since he won that title,” he said. “There have been many, many examples of fighters waiting 15 months, 18 months before defending it. He’s 11 months and they stripped him of it.”

“I thought it was very shortsighted by the UFC how they went about doing it.”

Do you agree with Kavanagh’s comments?

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Daniel Cormier Releases Details On Recent Injury

Reigning UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel “DC” Cormier was scheduled to defend his 205-pound strap in a rematch against Anthony Johnson at Dec. 10’s UFC 206 from Toronto, Canada, but he was recently forced to withdraw from the bout due to an injury. Cormier revealed on today’s (Nov. 28, 2016) edition of The MMA Hour

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Reigning UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel “DC” Cormier was scheduled to defend his 205-pound strap in a rematch against Anthony Johnson at Dec. 10’s UFC 206 from Toronto, Canada, but he was recently forced to withdraw from the bout due to an injury.

Cormier revealed on today’s (Nov. 28, 2016) edition of The MMA Hour that he suffered a torn right adductor muscle, which is located near the groin. The former Olympian now has a choice to make regarding his treatment, and he plans to return in the February or March:

“I don’t know, man,” Cormier said. “It’s a weird deal, because I always try not to have surgery. That’s kind of my thing. I do whatever I can to not go under the knife. I’ve got some decisions to make.”

Surgery would likely get Cormier back in the gym in eight weeks, while simply resting would likely put him out of action for five months. “DC” could also elect to get platelet-rich plasma injections which would heal his injury faster than resting.

“I told [the doctor] I would like the fastest way back to the Octagon,” Cormier said.

While his decision hasn’t been made just yet, Cormier is hoping to face off with Johnson upon his return before meeting Ryan Bader before July.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the only time “DC” has suffered an injury, but the champion doesn’t plan on changing his training habits anytime soon:

“I feel if I don’t prepare in the ways I’ve always prepared in, I don’t know if I’ll be able to compete to the best of my ability,” he said. “It sucks.”

UFC 206 is now set to be headlined by an interim featherweight title fight between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis.

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Anthony Pettis Promises To Find Whoever Attacked His Home

A report surfaced yesterday (Oct. 27, 2016) indicating that three of Anthony Pettis’ cars had been set on fire and burned in his driveway at his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Today (Oct. 28, 2016), the former UFC lightweight champion commented on the horrible situation via his official Instagram account. While “Showtime” admitted that he won’t

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A report surfaced yesterday (Oct. 27, 2016) indicating that three of Anthony Pettis’ cars had been set on fire and burned in his driveway at his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Today (Oct. 28, 2016), the former UFC lightweight champion commented on the horrible situation via his official Instagram account.

While “Showtime” admitted that he won’t be ‘defeated’ by the situation, he did say that he was ‘saddened’, and that he plans to do everything in his power in order to find out who committed the crime:


After dropping two straight bouts at lightweight, the ex-champion recently dropped down to 145-pounds where he scored an impressive victory over then No. 6-ranked Charles Oliveira last August. Pettis is now set to take on No. 3-ranked surging contender Max “Blessed” Holloway at Dec. 10’s UFC 206 from Toronto, Canada with a potential title shot on the line.

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