{"id":58657,"date":"2020-08-02T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2684983"},"modified":"2020-08-02T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:43:00","slug":"dana-white-takes-another-u-turn-on-conor-mcgregors-alleged-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/08\/02\/dana-white-takes-another-u-turn-on-conor-mcgregors-alleged-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White takes another U-turn on Conor McGregor\u2019s alleged retirement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4222-logo.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"intro\">\n<div>\n<figure class=\"image\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2020\/08\/5dc0a-15962607227290-800.jpg\" alt=\"McGregor v Cerrone\" width=\"638\" height=\"429\" data-img=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2020\/08\/5dc0a-15962607227290-800.jpg\" data-img-low=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2020\/08\/5dc0a-15962607227290-500.jpg\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"sk-app-thumbnail\">McGregor v Cerrone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-profile \">\n<div class=\"left-info fl\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/player\/conor-mcgregor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conor McGregor<\/a>&nbsp;has been retired for a little while but it&#8217;s hard to believe that his retirement is a legitimate one, especially since he often uses social media to tease fights that are unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/go\/ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFC<\/a>&nbsp;President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/player\/dana-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dana White<\/a>&nbsp;spoke about Conor McGregor to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/29\/sport\/dana-white-ufc-fight-island-critics-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>&nbsp;and dropped the standard &#8220;he&#8217;s retired&#8221; line, before saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;You never know. Listen, it makes a lot of sense for him to come back at the right time. I don&rsquo;t know when the right time is yet. I&rsquo;m trying to get to January 1. That&rsquo;s my goal this year, is to get to January 1 without anything blowing up anymore this year in 2020. I can&rsquo;t wait for 2020 to be gone. This will go down as the worst year in history, ever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>What will it take to bring Conor McGregor back in the UFC?<\/h2>\n<p>The biggest question for the UFC is whether they should bring back Conor McGregor an empty arena show. Does Conor McGregor&nbsp;<em>want&nbsp;<\/em>to fight in an empty arena?<\/p>\n<p>Conor McGregor fights are the biggest spectacle the sport of MMA has seen and there&#8217;s a reason why he&#8217;s the sport&#8217;s biggest box office draw. While Dana White would immediately book a rematch between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor, he knows that the possibilities are less. Khabib Nurmagomedov&#8217;s manager Ali Abdelaziz stated that the Lightweight Champion is likely to only fight twice before his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Since Justin Gaethje is Khabib Nurmagomedov&#8217;s opponent at UFC 254, the big question is who the Russian will face if 2021 will be the end of his career. Conor McGregor seems unlikely to get the fight, as Khabib Nurmagomedov rejected the offer before, stating no interest in a rematch.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Dana White stated, before thinking about Conor McGregor, UFC has to get through 2020. They&#8217;ve been the world leaders in terms of bringing sports back during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>Summary: <\/strong><br \/>Conor McGregor has been retired for a while now, but not many people believe it.<br \/><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/player\/conor-mcgregor\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/player\/conor-mcgregor<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>R. Nath<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>R. Nath<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4222-logo.png\" alt=\"\">McGregor v Cerrone Conor McGregor&nbsp;has been retired for a little while but it&rsquo;s hard to believe that his retirement is a legitimate one, especially since he often uses social media to tease fights that are unlikely to happen. UFC&nbsp;President&nbsp;Dana White&nbsp;spoke about Conor McGregor to&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;and dropped the standard &ldquo;he&rsquo;s retired&rdquo; line, before saying: &ldquo;You never know. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/08\/02\/dana-white-takes-another-u-turn-on-conor-mcgregors-alleged-retirement\/\">Continue reading <span>Dana White takes another U-turn on Conor McGregor&rsquo;s alleged retirement?<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/08\/02\/dana-white-takes-another-u-turn-on-conor-mcgregors-alleged-retirement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White takes another U-turn on Conor McGregor\u2019s alleged retirement? - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/08\/02\/dana-white-takes-another-u-turn-on-conor-mcgregors-alleged-retirement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White takes another U-turn on Conor McGregor\u2019s alleged retirement? - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"McGregor v Cerrone Conor McGregor&nbsp;has been retired for a little while but it&rsquo;s hard to believe that his retirement is a legitimate one, especially since he often uses social media to tease fights that are unlikely to happen. 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