UFC President Dana White announced yesterday that they have pulled UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor from UFC 200, where he was scheduled to fight Nate Diaz in a rematch from UFC 196. He was pulled from the main event at UFC 200, due to his unwillingness to fly to Las Vegas and participate in mandatory promotional activities.
McGregor sent the MMA world into chaos by tweeting that he has decided to retire young.
Dana White said the following:
“We pulled Conor McGregor from UFC 200. Conor did not want to come to Las Vegas and film the commercial or be any part of the marketing that we have, he’s in Iceland training and that’s not possible. We had other incidents like this where guys didn’t want to do the press conference, you have to, he didn’t want to. He felt that leaving right now would hurt his training, but every other fighter on the card is coming. I respect Conor as a fighter and I like him as a person, but it doesn’t make you exempt, you have to do it. Is Conor McGregor retiring? Only he can answer that question, I don’t know, but he’s not fighting at UFC 200.”
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