Report: Big riff between McGregor & Dana White

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During the week, we reported on top MMA journalist Jeremy Botter’s claims that Conor McGregor has intentions to soon part company with the UFC in order to run his own promotion.

After UFC 194, Dana White failed to turn up to take questions at the post event press conference .

Last night, the excellent Irish podcast Off The Ball managed to get a hold ofBleacher Report journalist Jeremy Botter (who initially broke the news that McGregor would be fighting Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC 197) and the MMA writer had some fascinating insight into the tense situation that has now developed between McGregor and the top brass in the UFC.

“His time in the UFC is limited. I’m not saying he will leave this year or next year, but I do believe he has a set amount of fights left that he wants to do with the UFC. At that point, I think he wants to go out on his own.”

Botter went on to state that the ‘Notorious’ trademarked ‘McGregor Sports & Entertainment’ last year and the power that he now commands in the UFC has seen such a fracturing of his relationship with UFC President Dana White that McGregor has frozen him out of his contract discussions

“I believe that things between Conor and Lorenzo Fertitta are okay but, from what I understand, Dana White has been frozen out of the process entirely and I don’t know why.

“There was going to come a point where… they’ve created this and now they can’t put it back in the cage.”

“They [White and the Fertitta’s] went out and were Conor’s best friends – you’ve seen the video of him driving with Dana down the strip and they’re hanging out at his house when he was training here last year.

“They thought they had a new best friend but what they actually had was a guy that wanted to be their business partner.”

LINK: There Is Now A Massive Rift Between Conor McGregor And Dana White According To Reports
 
Pappy Knuckles

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Lmao,. Good luck starting your own promotion, but I'm all about seeing this guy squeeze every drop of money out of UFC that he can. I feel like it can only be beneficial to other fighters. You can't get much hotter in MMA than Conor is right now.
 
Robbie Hart

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This is interesting.......I look forward to more of this playing out.

He kicked the bully Dana out of contract negotiations, ha, ha....too much of the old "you're not getting that" from Dana........
 
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I don't see him leaving the UFC, simply because it's the best MMA promotion in the world, with or without him.

Sure, he could fight cans and make a shit ton of money, but unlike Fedor Conor is also about challenging himself.
 
Ghost Bro

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I dunno what kind of music Dana and Conor are making..but this is the biggest riff by far:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4



I am highly sceptical of these reports. The UFC never being the one to be transparent about behind the scenes dealings etc, they've been surprisingly open about their looming concerns of McGregor, people were posting shit on the UG straight after the fight that there was a rift...I really think its just publicity..trying to make Conor into the anti-UFC icon, after the UFC built him up and pretend to either fighters that "You too can do this! The sky is the limit!" and dangle him as the UFC's version of the white picket fenced American Dream.
Then again, I am listening to Iron Butterfly in 2016, am definitely allegedly not sober and I like a good conspiracy at this moment. But c'mon, as if they were looking for a fighter friend.
 
Yossarian

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They wanted a puppet. They got McGregor.

His approach is refreshing, and important to MMA and how athletes may be paid in the future. He shouldn't need to have a reason to freeze Dana out of his decision making. Dana shouldn't be that big of a part of the UFC. It is time he gets push-back and limited to what he thinks should mean for the organization and its athletes. And Conor is showing him that right now.
 
Leigh

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Starting his own promotion would probably be foolish. But we'll see. The UFC made a lot of losses to get to where they are now but they have figured out how MMA works and how to make money. Every time McGregor fights, he makes millions of dollars WITH THE UFC.

Before the UFC, he was barely scraping by, collecting unemployment. The UFC were making millions of dollars without him. They work well together (financially) and he's probably better off keeping it that way.
 
ECC170

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Be so funny if Conor was brought on and took over dfw role..causing dfw to go postal :cheers:
 
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Could the RDA match up been pushed through in hopes of destroying McGregors image by him getting battered? Sure it's a big payday, but any McGregor fight at this point is.
 
Sweets

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Ghost Bro said:
Cheers haven't listened to this before, is it an Irish podcast? Guy definitely sounds Irish.

Hilarious that his girlfriend is the President of McGregor INC.
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It's a sports radio show three hours every weekday night the all day from noon weekends. They do top notch segments mid week. Yeah she seems to organise everything, he's a lucky man.
 
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Ghost Bro said:
Cheers haven't listened to this before, is it an Irish podcast? Guy definitely sounds Irish.

Hilarious that his girlfriend is the President of McGregor INC.
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If so expect her to get the Jenna Jameson treatment from Zuffa soon.
 
BackOffWarchild

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Self-promoting, if he departed the UFC as a two-division champion, would be the key to an enormous amount of money for Conor. Yes, he makes a few million per fight right now, but he would be making tens of millions, and most importantly, THERE WOULD BE NO LEGITIMATE CONTENDERS TO DEFEAT HIM.

Virtually all of the quality 145 and 155-pound fighters in the world are under contract with Zuffa, outside of fringe top-40 fighters in Japan and Russia. Conor would be self-promoting as the number one fighter in the world at either weight he departs as champion, and defending the belt against fringe contenders and semi-retired "name" fighters (think BJ Penn, Roger Huerta), with each victory becoming a larger spectacle. The quality of opposition won't matter, as he will be able to claim (perhaps rightfully) he defeated all the best of the UFC, and there will be pressure on Zuffa's contenders to depart the organization for single-fight payoffs against Conor (think Tim Sylvia getting $800k to get massacred by Fedor in Affliction).

If McGregor departs the UFC with a single belt and not on a loss, he's going to make an outrageous, game-changing amount of cash.

Good for him.
 
Bozy

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All this talk is just hype before facing. Monster like Dos Anjos. I am a big Conor fan. I hope he retires undefeated and makes a ton of money. But his next two fights are tough.
 
ChaosOverkill

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This is the ugly drawback to having no other upper-midrange stars you grew yourself and depending on shooting stars to like Ronda and Conor to guide your entire focus.

They might turn around and realize the leverage you gave them holding YOU hostage.

Fast becoming a fan of McGregor the business man first and foremost and the fighter... talker... comes and goes. but business man for sure.
 
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