McGregor was originally due to fight Nate Diaz in a rematch of his defeat last month. He told the media Friday that he wants a “big fight” and that involves going up against someone like McGregor.
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A few hours after Kavanagh sent that tweet, UFC 200’s main event was changed from McGregor v Nate Diaz to the highly anticipated grudge match between “To Be Announced” and “To Be Determined”.
White pulled him off the card Thursday, citing that McGregor wasn’t living up to his promotional obligations for the fight.
While White said McGregor is off the card, Diaz said he will continue training to fight McGregor at UFC 200. But apparently, this is not true and he only made the tweet as a form of protest regarding the UFC’s requirements when it comes to promoting upcoming fights.
In his discussions on the matter, White said he wasn’t upset with the star fighter but asked how it would be fair to keep McGregor on the card after he skipped the commercial shoot in Las Vegas. If we don’t do that fight, I’m going on vacation’. “I understand it’s all good, let him do his thing, get his train on and then get ready to fight, it’s all good with me”. And they’re here. It’s part of the job, it’s what we do here. “We gave Conor every opportunity to be here, too”. We get criticized a lot for bending a lot for Conor. ‘I don’t have any interest in fighting at all.
As recently as Saturday, McGregor appeared to be out of the running to appear on the bill at UFC 200.
McGregor, who has been training in Iceland, was clearly watching late into the European night.
The 46-year-old promoter was referring to the Irish Man’s refusal to attend promo junkets for the aforementioned fight. They were left even more disappointed when Dana White confirmed that they did not now have a new opponent for Nate Diaz yet.
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“I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting”, he said.
