The Official UFC Thread

[gawa316]

So what next for McGregor? What if Dana calls his bluff?

Is he seriously done? Can he start something up himself? Would Bellator be an option?

Questions, questions???

[The Iceman]

So what next for McGregor? What if Dana calls his bluff?

Is he seriously done? Can he start something up himself? Would Bellator be an option?

Questions, questions???

He can start his own promotion but not fight. He has a contract with the UFC- his only option is retirement or compete.
Dana can fill the void.... he holds the strings.

[Smokin Joe]

So what next for McGregor? What if Dana calls his bluff?

Is he seriously done? Can he start something up himself? Would Bellator be an option?

Questions, questions???

He can start his own promotion but not fight. He has a contract with the UFC- his only option is retirement or compete.
Dana can fill the void.... he holds the strings.

Do we know what a UFC contract looks like Iceman?  If he can only fight for Dana, what would happen if Dana offered him a derisory amount for a fight?  Surely the fighter has got to have some options so he is not exclusive to them as he could be taken advantage of in that case?

[The Iceman]

So what next for McGregor? What if Dana calls his bluff?

Is he seriously done? Can he start something up himself? Would Bellator be an option?

Questions, questions???

He can start his own promotion but not fight. He has a contract with the UFC- his only option is retirement or compete.
Dana can fill the void.... he holds the strings.

Do we know what a UFC contract looks like Iceman?  If he can only fight for Dana, what would happen if Dana offered him a derisory amount for a fight?  Surely the fighter has got to have some options so he is not exclusive to them as he could be taken advantage of in that case?

No I don't know but I've followed the promotion for long enough to know there is no way he can just quit the UFC and go and fight for Bellator. CMG signed the contract - it is for a set figure per fight plus PPV ties and whatever bonuses he has. Like a soccer player can't just quit a team and go and join another - it's a contract. He is exclusive to the UFC until that contract has been obligated or he is released

[Hound]

Dana White gave some more interviews this evening:

He said was nothing to do with money, purely to do with him not wanting to do promotional activity.

Said Conor needs to say if he is or isnt retiring or he'll be stripped of the FW belt.

He said it never got argumentative. He was talking to his Conor's manager and not once did it get argumentative.

He said that people like to say he cosys up to Conor and stuff like that and that Conor can do what he wants. But he can't. He gives lots of leeway to Conor because he delivers. But he wasn't going to deliver this weekend so he had to pull him.  Dana said Conor wanted to move the promotional activity to May, which wasn't acceptable. Dana said he thought Conor wouldnt have expected him to pull him from the fight.

He said if McGregor calls him very soon he can still be on the card, but he needs to do the promotion. UFC have spent $10m on promotion for UFC 200 that is already in motion.

Dana said the reporter who said McGregor was holding out for $10m was flat out lying. He repeated this had nothing to do with money, and Conor is happy with what he earns.

[The Iceman]

there was no shame in losing to NAte a 2nd time at 170
he had a guaranteed fight at 145 afterwards - he wouldnt walk away from 10 million - he took the fight because it was his only shot at Nate at 170 and the big pay day
he'll lose to edgar at 145 and the nate fight would be completely lost
this way he is guaranteed 2 fights and the diaz one would always be the bigger pay day
there is a lot more to this...

[seafoid]

the fella who owns UFC is a billionaire. It's all one big circus with the added feature of death

[laoislad]

I heard he is retiring as he wants to make more money elsewhere.
A Luas driver he will be so....

[The Gs Man]

UFC 197 hasn't even happened and they're already trying to go over the top with promo for 200?

Surely a month of promo is enough, no?

Sure the McGregor/Diaz fight has already promoted itself anyway?

[DuffleKing]

Dana said last night that he could still be reinstated to the UFC200 bill

[AZOffaly]

the fella who owns UFC is a billionaire. It's all one big circus with the added feature of death

Remember movies like 'The Running Man'?

[Declan]

Ball back in Dana court now.
I am just trying to do my job and fight here.
I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.
I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.
There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.
50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I'm left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.
Nothing else was going through my mind.
It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.
Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a **** morning show did not get me this life.
Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a **** about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.
I'm coming for my revenge here.
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.
With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.
I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.
There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.
He came in with no **** to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.
I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.
For the record also -
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.

[Under Lights]

Wow. That's awful. Massive cringy bullshit from him there.

[AZOffaly]

I'm telling you. 5 minutes in an airport with the Cork footballers, and look at him!

[JoG2]

Wow. That's awful. Massive cringy bullshit from him there.

I enjoyed reading that and I've no grá for the UFC. He's a quare operator in and out of the pentagon