Dana White: Conor McGregor will ‘fight on 201, 202, 203’
If Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz are going to have their rematch, it almost certainly won’t be at UFC 200.
The proposed rematch was originally scheduled to headline UFC 200 until McGregor was pulled from the card due to not making himself available for a press conference in Las Vegas last week. Despite public outcry to allow the Irishman to fight, UFC president Dana White has stood firm that McGregor would not be placed back on the July card and reiterated his position under no uncertain terms when approached by TMZ Tuesday morning.
“Conor’s his own guy, he’s going to do what he’s going to do but he’s not fighting on [UFC] 200,” White said while mentioning that he has no ill-will toward McGregor. “Listen, he’ll fight on 201, 202, 203, whatever, I don’t know when, but we’ll get it figured out.”
The other half of the equation, Nate Diaz, made headlines when he stated at Friday’s UFC 200 press conference that he was not interested in facing another opponent and would instead go “on vacation.”
White stated his desire to keep Diaz on the card and offered the Stockton fighter essentially any fight that he desired in an effort to keep him on UFC 200.
“I have a long list of people he could fight, but it’s up to him,” White said. “He obviously won the first fight. He stepped up to take the second fight with Conor and the thing fell apart. We’ll give him a list of other guys and if he wants it, he can have it.”
But Diaz appears to have other plans:
The UFC website has removed both McGregor and Diaz from the UFC 200 lineup page and, as it stands, there is room for two more fights. The current plan is for Jon Jones to meet Daniel Cormier for the undisputed UFC light heavyweight championship should Cormier heal from his knee injury suffered last month.
