{"id":193875,"date":"2016-05-11T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=193875"},"modified":"2016-05-11T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:22:31","slug":"dana-white-opens-up-on-relationship-with-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/dana-white-opens-up-on-relationship-with-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White opens up on relationship with Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor certainly threw the UFC a bit of a curveball last month when he refused to fulfill his media obligations for his UFC 200 fight with Nate Diaz<\/a> on July 9th.<\/p>\n

McGregor tweeted that he was retired<\/a>, which was followed up by an announcement from the UFC that McGregor had been pulled from the event<\/a> after refusing to fulfill his obligations.<\/p>\n

After a brief scramble, Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier II<\/a> was revealed as the new main event for UFC 200, with McGregor left on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

While many believed that this caused a massive rift between the UFC and Conor McGregor, that isn’t the case according to UFC President Dana White, who spoke on the Dan Patrick show.<\/p>\n

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White on Conor: our relationship is great. We are going to get by the speed bump and move on. They're having dinner next week.<\/p>\n

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) May 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n