{"id":190838,"date":"2016-04-01T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=190838"},"modified":"2016-04-01T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:28:10","slug":"rafael-dos-anjos-reacts-conor-mcgregor-vs-nate-diaz-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rafael-dos-anjos\/rafael-dos-anjos-reacts-conor-mcgregor-vs-nate-diaz-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael dos Anjos reacts to Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the UFC announced that Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz would have their <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/conor-mcgregor-vs-nate-diaz-ii-set-for-ufc-200-jose-aldo-vs-frankie-edgar-for-interim-belt\/\">highly anticipated welterweight rematch<\/a> at UFC 200 on July 9th.  While the majority of the MMA community was thrilled with the announcement of the bout, Rafael dos Anjos wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>During a Periscope session, dos Anjos stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Conor don&#8217;t deserve to fight me.  He just got beat by Diaz now. If he lose to the number 5 contender, how can he face the champ?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then proceeded to Tweet the following.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">feel bad for Aldo and Edgar,after ufc200 Conor ll find another fight in a different division,so he can keep his belt for lil longer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coward?src=hash\">#coward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rafael dos Anjos (@RdosAnjosMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RdosAnjosMMA\/status\/715345859638996992\">March 31, 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>Recently the UFC announced that Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz would have their highly anticipated welterweight rematch at UFC 200 on July 9th. 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