{"id":192251,"date":"2016-04-21T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=192251"},"modified":"2016-04-21T07:58:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:58:06","slug":"breaking-conor-mcgregor-makes-announcement-regarding-ufc-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/breaking-conor-mcgregor-makes-announcement-regarding-ufc-200\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING! Conor McGregor releases statement regarding UFC 200 and retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor shocked the world when he announced his retirement from MMA on Tuesday. The Irish superstar was expected to rematch Nate Diaz in the headlining bout of July&#8217;s UFC 200 event in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n<p>McGregor was then pulled from the fight card (UFC 200) after UFC President Dana White revealed that Conor was refusing to fulfill his media obligations for the summer&#8217;s blockbuster event.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor, who has remained silent aside from a statement which read &#8220;I\u2019m retired. Fuck interviews,&#8221; has now released a message to his fans on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thenotoriousmma\/?fref=ts#\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I am just trying to do my job and fight here.<br \/>\nI am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.<br \/>\nI have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.<br \/>\nThere comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.<br \/>\n50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I&#8217;m left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.<br \/>\nNothing else was going through my mind.<br \/>\nIt is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.<br \/>\nSitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a fuck morning show did not get me this life.<br \/>\nTalking to some lady that deep down doesn&#8217;t give a fuck about what I&#8217;m doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I&#8217;m cool with that too, I&#8217;ve been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m coming for my revenge here.<br \/>\nI flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.<br \/>\nWith the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.<br \/>\nI will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.<br \/>\nI will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.<br \/>\nBut it was denied.<br \/>\nThere had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.<br \/>\nSo as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.<br \/>\nAnd all with one tweet.<br \/>\nKeep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.<br \/>\nI must isolate myself now.<br \/>\nI am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.<br \/>\nI can not dance for you this time.<br \/>\nIt is time for the other monkeys to dance. I&#8217;ve danced us all the way here.<br \/>\nNate&#8217;s little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.<br \/>\nHe came in with no shit to do that last one. I&#8217;d already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;ll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m doing what I need for me now.<br \/>\nIt is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.<br \/>\nI feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.<br \/>\nI am still ready to go for UFC 200.<br \/>\nI will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.<br \/>\nIf this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don&#8217;t know what to say.<br \/>\nFor the record also &#8211;<br \/>\nFor USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations &#8211;<br \/>\nI AM NOT RETIRED.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of Conor McGregor&#8217;s statement? Sound off PENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor shocked the world when he announced his retirement from MMA on Tuesday. The Irish superstar was expected to rematch Nate Diaz in the headlining bout of July&#8217;s UFC 200 event in Las Vegas. 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