White said it's not his fault McGregor won't be at the July 9 event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
"I didn't prevent Conor from fighting at UFC 200," White said. "I did not."
That's a bit of semantic gamesmanship, as it was the UFC which announced last week it was pulling McGregor off that card. White pointed out that, among other things, strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk flew in from Poland for last week's press conference in Las Vegas and Jose Also and Claudia Gadelha came in from Brazil, so he expected McGregor to be able to fly in from Ireland.
"If you look at the press conference, Joanna Jedrzejczyk who flew in to the press conference from Poland, Claudia came in from Brazil, [Aldo] flew in from Brazil. People came in from all over the world, Frankie's just getting home and hasn't seen his family. This is what we do. This is how it works. I didn't prevent him from fighting in UFC 200. He knew what the deal was, I told him what the deal was, and he opted to do that."
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