{"id":192223,"date":"2016-04-20T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=192223"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:01:37","slug":"chael-sonnen-offers-insight-into-conor-mcgregors-dispute-with-the-ufc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/chael-sonnen-offers-insight-into-conor-mcgregors-dispute-with-the-ufc2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen offers insight into Conor McGregor&#8217;s dispute with the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 200 is now left without a main event after <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/immediate-family-member-of-conor-mcgregor-opens-up-on-champs-retirement\/\">Conor McGregor retired<\/a>, and then was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/dana-white-explains-why-conor-mcgregor-was-pulled-from-ufc-200\/\">pulled from his main event slot<\/a> for refusing to fulfill his media obligations for the July 9th event.<\/p>\n<p>While all signs are pointing to McGregor legitimately retiring, former UFC fighter Chael Sonnen offered some insight into what the situation could be on a Facebook Q&#038;A.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It\u2019s a contract dispute,&#8221; Sonnen said in a Facebook Q&#038;A. &#8220;I don\u2019t have any inside info on this, just being around the business since the 90\u2019s, I know how it worked, I know how this whole thing went down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conor has a contract, he made a deal,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Somewhere he didn\u2019t sign it, let the promotion go out, let the money get spent and then realized, \u2018I\u2019ve got the upper hand. Now I can go back and renegotiate, who\u2019s going to tell me now when the advertising\u2019s already done.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s what he did, guaranteed. That\u2019s not going to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guarantee you, Georges St-Pierre\u2019s phone is blowing up right now,&#8221; Sonnen said. &#8220;And he\u2019s getting a big offer. That\u2019s the guy they\u2019re gonna go after.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Georges St-Pierre stepping in for McGregor wouldn&#8217;t be that big of a surprise. St-Pierre has stated recently that talks with the UFC are growing increasingly serious.  That, on top of the fact that after his UFC 196 win over McGregor, Diaz requested a fight with GSP.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think GSP will finally return to the Octagon for UFC 200? 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