{"id":187015,"date":"2016-02-23T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=187015"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:09:35","slug":"anthony-pettis-offers-to-fight-conor-mcgregor-at-ufc-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anthony-pettis\/anthony-pettis-offers-to-fight-conor-mcgregor-at-ufc-196\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Pettis offers to fight Conor McGregor at UFC 196"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Tuesday morning it was revealed that UFC lightweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/breaking-rda-injured-out-of-ufc-196\/\">Rafael dos Anjos had withdrawn<\/a> from his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/must-see-all-new-chilling-ufc-196-promo\/\">UFC 196<\/a> lightweight title fight with featherweight champion Conor McGregor on March 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately there was speculation as to who would step in on short notice to fight McGregor and save the main event.  While Donald &#8216;Cowboy&#8217; Cerrone, fresh off his win on Saturday, offered to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/donald-cowboy-cerrone\/donald-cerrone-offers-to-step-in-and-save-ufc-1962\/\">step in to fight McGregor<\/a>, there is now another option.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony &#8216;Showtime&#8217; Pettis has offered to step in and fight McGregor according to his coach Duke Roufus.<\/p>\n<p>Pettis is coming off a decision loss to Eddie Alvarez back in early January.  The loss made it 2 straight for Pettis who also  lost to Rafael dos Anjos back in March at UFC 185.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Showtimepettis\">@Showtimepettis<\/a> said put me in coach <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\">@ufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite\">@danawhite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lorenzofertitta\">@lorenzofertitta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Coach Duke Roufus (@dukeroufus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dukeroufus\/status\/702154080924241920\">February 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m down to throw down!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dukeroufus\">@dukeroufus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\">@ufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite\">@danawhite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lorenzofertitta\">@lorenzofertitta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony Pettis (@Showtimepettis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Showtimepettis\/status\/702157499273756672\">February 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Tuesday morning it was revealed that UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos had withdrawn from his UFC 196 lightweight title fight with featherweight champion Conor McGregor on March 5th. 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