{"id":174548,"date":"2015-11-04T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=174548"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:34:04","slug":"ian-mccall-co-managing-marijuana-dispensary-could-walk-away-from-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/ian-mccall-co-managing-marijuana-dispensary-could-walk-away-from-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McCall co-managing marijuana dispensary, could walk away from MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC flyweight Ian McCall hasn&#8217;t fought in the Octagon since he dropped a unanimous decision to John Lineker at UFC 183 in the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<p>McCall recently revealed that after recovering from surgery <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/ian-mccall-eyeing-cerrone-like-schedule-after-returning-from-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he would like to begin a Donald Cerrone style schedule of fighting up to 6 times a year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/11\/ian-mccall-is-co-managing-a-medical-marijuana-facility-and-could-walk-away-from-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>, McCall revealed that he is now co-managing a federally regulated marijuana dispensary in California.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am management at California\u2019s first federally regulated marijuana dispensary,\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re totally legal; we cannot be shut down,\u201d McCall said. \u201cThe feds can\u2019t come in and f-ck with us. The state, we\u2019re going to be paying them a lot of taxes. And we\u2019re going to be very by the book because we\u2019re going to be watched by the government.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In regards to his future inside the Octagon, McCall said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur sport\u2019s in ruin, financially,\u201d he said. \u201cOur sport sucks. It\u2019s not what it used to be. It\u2019s not what it was five years ago. It\u2019s not even what it is when I first got to the UFC. It\u2019s horrible, as far as finances. So I\u2019ve got to get another job, just like many other fighters. This one could take me away from MMA.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC flyweight Ian McCall hasn&#8217;t fought in the Octagon since he dropped a unanimous decision to John Lineker at UFC 183 in the beginning of this year. McCall recently revealed that after recovering from surgery he would like to begin a Donald Cerrone style schedule of fighting up to 6 times a year. 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