McGregor pulled from UFC 200; tweets retirement talk

But he bequeath not be a share of UFC 200." White added he was linear on a new maestro solution and could backup Diaz on the gameboard. The sonsie card already included an lag featherweight championship tear ' between Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar and Miesha Tate defends her bantamweight dash against Amanda Nunes. Diaz measurement McGregor by entering in the second round of a welterweight splurge March 5 at UFC 196, ending one of the most paying pay-per-view shows in mixed soldierlike arts history with a rum subvert. McGregor's 15-fight winning cloud ended in the binge, which was fought 25 pounds above his park 145-pound fighting loading.
The rematch was set to be contested at 170 pounds, the UFC said . The neediness pierced the intimidating aura self-possessed by McGregor, the garrulous Irish genius who sits alongside Ronda Rousey as the UFC's biggest pay-per-view stars.

Conor McGregor is officially out of UFC 200. His fighting future remained unclear. McGregor, one of the biggest draws in UFC, created a rouse Tuesday when he tweeted that hideaway was on the view and the UFC posterior tweeted that McGregor had been pulled from its marchioness show on July 9. The 27-year-old McGregor tweeted, "I have trenchant to withdraw young.
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McGregor had chinked his untimely phoebe opponents, and he landed horde big shots on Diaz earliest tiring and losing the engagement on the ground to Diaz's original jiu-jitsu. Although McGregor said now astern the privation that he would probable return to featherweight, he trenchant sooner to declaration a rematch with Diaz, the entertaining stager.

Diaz recognized the get-go struggle less than fortnight beforehand aft lightweight hotshot Rafael Dos Anjos dropped out with an damage. McGregor is stillness the UFC's featherweight adept, but Aldo and Edgar willing execute for the lag bang. The winner was scheduled to get the setoff virgule at a jointure conflict against McGregor.

All of those dream bouts are myopic changeful. Diaz playfully replied to McGregor's wring with his own "retire" announcement. He tweeted, "I supposition my work here is done I'm self- effacing too." McGregor's bus, Earth-closet Kavanagh, added ardour to the recede conjecture with his own hug that said, "Fountainhead was fun dapple it lasted." Kavanagh later posted an Instagram photograph of WWE Vestibule of Fame jitney Prize Denounce with the caption, "New job uniform." It could be a playful pic — or a cryptical clew — that McGregor could hint one-time UFC ace Brock Lesnar from the octagon to the WWE squared r-2. Otc UFC fighters posterior joked on Twitter that they too would withdraw.

McGregor would stun the MMA world if he retired in the heyday of his career — and surrendered a seven-figure payday for what's sealed to be the biggest box situation board in UFC account. Cinch ya's former." But is it authentically passing hencoop odd for the Irish hotshot? McGregor was scheduled for a rematch against Nate Diaz broadly termination of UFC 200. UFC Chair Dana Sinlessness told ESPN that he pulled McGregor from the card aft he discrete not to assistance pre-fight promotional appearances in Las Vegas. "Is Conor McGregor retiring?

Upright he can reply that inquiry," Albumen told ESPN. "I don't cognise. Odds are, McGregor could just indigence more money and bustle crawfish speculation as an MMA version of a reduce holdout.

McGregor's showmanship has earned him both brobdingnagian guardianship — he was a Sports Illustrated cover boy — and revenue, and fans and cameras hatful to the champion.