{"id":105930,"date":"2014-07-22T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T21:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=105930"},"modified":"2022-02-06T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:50:31","slug":"breaking-news-mcgregor-vs-poirier-booked-for-ufc-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/breaking-news-mcgregor-vs-poirier-booked-for-ufc-178\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: McGregor vs. Poirier Booked For UFC 178"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/conor-mcgregor-needs-to-tone-down-the-talk-until-he-proves-his-worth\/conor-mcgregor-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95934\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conor-McGregor-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Conor McGregor PNG\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conor-McGregor-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conor-McGregor-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Conor-McGregor-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UFC has just announced that Notorious Conor McGregor will be facing off against Dustin Poirier at UFC 178: Jones vs. Gustafsson on September 27th in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier and McGregor have been trading shots via Twitter.  After Poirier&#8217;s teammate Cole Miller pulled out of his scheduled UFC Dublin bout against McGregor, Poirier didn&#8217;t step up, and as a result found himself on the receiving end of harsh criticism from McGregor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>BREAKING NEWS!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DustinPoirier\">@DustinPoirier<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\">@TheNotoriousMMA<\/a> official for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC178?src=hash\">#UFC178<\/a> &#8211; Wow! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/MhHBtCKKIr\">pic.twitter.com\/MhHBtCKKIr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC United Kingdom (@UFC_UK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFC_UK\/statuses\/491690934640586752\">July 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The announcement, which was made by UFC United Kingdom was Retweeted by the UFC, and put on the UFC&#8217;s official Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC has just announced that Notorious Conor McGregor will be facing off against Dustin Poirier at UFC 178: Jones vs. Gustafsson on September 27th in Las Vegas. Poirier and McGregor have been trading shots via Twitter. After Poirier&#8217;s teammate Cole Miller pulled out of his scheduled UFC Dublin bout against McGregor, Poirier didn&#8217;t step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":95934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[87,4395,3884,303,9,483,11,8433,15,8705],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS: McGregor vs. Poirier Booked For UFC 178 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/breaking-news-mcgregor-vs-poirier-booked-for-ufc-178\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS: McGregor vs. Poirier Booked For UFC 178 | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The UFC has just announced that Notorious Conor McGregor will be facing off against Dustin Poirier at UFC 178: Jones vs. Gustafsson on September 27th in Las Vegas. 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