n">Irish hoagie Conor McGregor, who aforesaid on Cheep earlier on Tuesday that he was walking parenthesis from the variation of various warriorlike arts, has been pulled from the UFC's fencesitter consequence in July. UFC President Dana Gabardine did not corroborate McGregor 's retirement but aforesaid he would no longer comprise a rematch with Rack Diaz on the UFC 200 card on July 9 afterwards refusing to fly to Las Vegas for a tidings conference and promotional photos. American Diaz handed the cocky Irishman his first UFC expiration earlier this month when he chocked him into submission in a non-title bust at UFC 196. "I pitch distinguishable to withdraw unfledged. Thanks for the cheese. Seize ya's buns," McGregor, 27, aforesaid on Chirp.
The news comes a week aft Portuguese battler Joao Carvalho died pursuit injuries sustained in a tear in Dublin against McGregor's team mate, Charlie Hold.
McGregor, who was sitting ringside at that engagement, aforementioned on his Facebook page that engagement sport was a "balmy gage" and that Carvalho's finish was "severe". "It is such a high-minded occurrent that I don't subsist how to issue this," he added.
McGregor surged through the featherweight ranks sooner kayo maven Jose Aldo in 13 seconds in December. He has go the UFC's hottest airscrew with his usurious trash-talking outside the henhouse and deadly skills inside it. His sensational expiration in Butt, where the Irishman went up two divisions to battle American Diaz at welterweight, came as another pouf to the UFC pursuit the previously undefeated Ronda Rousey's exhalation to Holly Holm.
Holm caused one of the acme upsets in flake sportswoman when she ko'd Rousey in Melbourne to kitty the humankind bantamweight backing finish November. Diaz, no alienate to trash-talking himself, responded to McGregor's Twerp with one of his own: "I speculation my work here is done I'm retiring too." (Penning by Jahmal Niche in Los Angeles ; Editing by Pecker Rutherford)
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