Ufc

[When Jokers Attack]

Ovince Saint Preux vs Jon Jones has been confirmed. I'd rather have a Jones fight on the card than no fight at all.

[The Nal]

Tate vs Nunes added to UFC 200.

[metallimuse]

Watching UFC Zagreb, so awesome to watch it at normal time.

[The Nal]

Great stuff from Dos Santos last night. Rothwell didn't offer much though.

[metallimuse]

I started recording it with 3 matches left as even though it was early I was nodding off lol. Will watch tonight though.

[The Nal]

A fighter died in Dublin at the weekend. R.I.P.

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This weekends card is falling apart, Machida now off it due to drug violation.

Some good news though...

 

 

[ThomThomDrum]

This retirement lark must be bull, no? 

Edited April 19, 2016 by ThomThomDrum

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56 minutes ago, ThomThomDrum said:

This retirement lark must be bull, no? 

I thought so to begin with but not sure now. My guess is he is injured or wanting more money from ufc.

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Official, UFC have have pulled him from 200

[CHRLY]

What the fuck... Interested to see where this goes.

[CHRLY]

 

[Uncle Liam]

I'd be shocked if McGregor isn't reinstated into the main event of UFC 200 by the end of the month. 
 

[The Nal]

Dickhead behaviour from McGregor. Who does he think he is? Marlon Brando?

[jump]

Not sure if it's true or not but there's talk about Conor McGregor going to WWE, he has been teasing making an appearence with them before.

[ThomThomDrum]

Ariel with some very level, well thought analysis of this situation

 

 

[Chawk]

This silence is tedious as hell, but it's got me hooked all the same 

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Dana White said in his latest interview...

 

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We try and make exceptions and work around these alpha male and female personalities, but the one thing they aren't exempt from is promoting the fight. Everybody, Ali, Tyson, everybody has to promote their fight.

Our relationship isn't damaged. Conor was making a lot of money for this fight. It's not like I'm asking him to come and do something the others aren't, it's not like it's 3 weeks before the fight, it's 3 months.

He's actually a really reasonable guy, so him freaking out, this is weird.

It's not a money issue. The hacks online make stuff up for clicks. This was never, ever about money. Conor is very happy with the money he makes. He's a stand up guy, he's never agreed a deal and then come back for more cash. He's not that type of person.

I don't think he's retiring, and I think he'll fight for us within the next year.

Conor needs to clear up the retirement decision fast, because that will make the Edgar-Aldo title match for the vacant title. Not stripping him yet.

I'm not mad, not even a little. It's UFC 200, it's a massive event. Plenty of people want to be on this card. I'm not mad at all.

Dunno when I'll talk to Conor again, we'll see how it plays out. I'm not mad at him, though. The show will roll on.

If he called me after this interview, then yeah! He can be on UFC 200. He has to be here and shoot this commercial.

We're spending $10m on promotion. You can't not do it.

The phone call wasn't combative. I was talking to his manager, and they were asking to move the promotion all back to May. We can't do it, the money is in motion.

The fans care about the fights, and thats all they should care about. But everyone knows this has happened only once before, and that was Nick Diaz, and we pulled him from that fight.

We do give Conor a lot of leeway. He delivers, but he wasn't planning on doing so this weekend, so I had to pull him.

 

[Uncle Liam]

So he's not retired after all. What a shocker.

[CHRLY]

 

[CHRLY]

Big baby.

[The Nal]

Basically. "I'm the biggest star in the company and want to be treated differently". 

 

Edited April 21, 2016 by The Nal

[ThomThomDrum]

The UFC did make this beast............

I think they are fools if they dont eventually get him on for 200

He is promoting 200 here with a few tweets more than anything else would/could

He is the biggest of babies, but the UFC have entertained his antics up to now. They have to look at themselves in all this

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No fighter is bigger than the sport and McGregor shoudn't be exempt from press conferences. 

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The ironic thing is McGregor wouldn't be the star he is without these media appearances. His trash talk brought in his millions of fans, if people cared about the fighting, then why isn't everyone talking about the #1 and #2 p4p fighters who are in action this weekend. 

Should be good show , Pettis vs Barboza will be fun.

Benson Henderson makes his Bellator debut tomorrow night as well.