{"id":153177,"date":"2015-07-02T09:29:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=153177"},"modified":"2022-02-04T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T02:43:49","slug":"how-tea-bagging-ignited-the-mcgregor-mendes-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/how-tea-bagging-ignited-the-mcgregor-mendes-rivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tea-Bagging Ignited The McGregor-Mendes Rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mendes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-151970\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mendes.jpg\" alt=\"mendes\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mendes.jpg 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mendes-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mendes-585x305.jpg 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mendes-390x203.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chad Mendes and Conor McGregor will fight at UFC 189 in about two weeks. So there can&#8217;t be that much bad blood between the two of them right? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the war of the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/tbt-mendes-and-mcgregor-exchange-words-prior-to-ufc-189-argue-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">words started back in 2014<\/a>. Mendes talked about the incident on yesterdays UFC 189 media conference call.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe short s&#8212;, I don\u2019t really give a s&#8212; about that. I\u2019ve been short my whole life. For me, it was right before the Aldo fight, and he was talking about putting balls on my head and being very unprofessional. That was something that made it personal. For me, you don\u2019t f&#8212;ing do that. This is the fight game and it\u2019s something where somebody can get seriously injured, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking to do when I get in there against Conor McGregor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kings Of Volume &#8212; Punches In Bunches With Nate Diaz And Richard Perez<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 560px;\">\n<div style=\"display: block; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/3674338004001\/eaee41e3-5171-4ead-a4ec-4e7670e9e465_default\/index.html?videoId=4330404785001\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Mendes and Conor McGregor will fight at UFC 189 in about two weeks. So there can&#8217;t be that much bad blood between the two of them right? Wrong. It appears the war of the words started back in 2014. Mendes talked about the incident on yesterdays UFC 189 media conference call. \u201cThe short s&#8212;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":151970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"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>How Tea-Bagging Ignited The McGregor-Mendes Rivalry | 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\/how-tea-bagging-ignited-the-mcgregor-mendes-rivalry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Tea-Bagging Ignited The McGregor-Mendes Rivalry | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chad Mendes and Conor McGregor will fight at UFC 189 in about two weeks. 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