{"id":201303,"date":"2016-08-16T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=201303"},"modified":"2016-08-16T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:48:10","slug":"conor-mcgregor-noncommittal-return-145-nate-diaz-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-noncommittal-return-145-nate-diaz-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor noncommittal about return to 145 after Nate Diaz rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Conor McGregor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/nate-diaz-vs-conor-mcgregor-2-official-for-ufc-202\/\">highly anticipated welterweight rematch with Nate Diaz less than a week away<\/a>, many are wondering what will be next for the featherweight champ.<\/p>\n<p>While UFC President <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/dana-white-calls-shots-talks-conor-mcgregors-next-fight-nate-diaz\/\">Dana White has stated that McGregor will have to go down to featherweight<\/a> to fight Jose Aldo in a title unification fight, McGregor appears to have his own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2016\/08\/champ-conor-mcgregor-on-return-to-featherweight-theyre-praying-i-dont-come-back\" target=\"_blank\">MMAJunkie<\/a> to discuss his future plans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThey\u2019re praying I don\u2019t come back,\u201d McGregor said. \u201cTell me one time I missed weight. I even made championship weight when I wasn\u2019t supposed to make it, when there wasn\u2019t a championship on the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the world champion \u2013 of course I\u2019ll defend that at some point in the future. But we\u2019ll see what happens after this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve beaten everybody in the division,\u201d McGregor said. \u201cIf Frankie had won that last fight, after all that he and his team were talking, it would have been set it stone: I\u2019m going back down to shut that man up. But he got slapped around that fight \u2013 couldn\u2019t do nothing against a guy I KOd in one shot. So I\u2019ve just got to see it out, see what happens after this fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m the featherweight world champion. The guy I KOd in 13 seconds is holding the interim. What does that tell you? I\u2019m leaps and bounds ahead of that featherweight division.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is important to mention that lightweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-eddie-alvarez-taunts-conor-mcgregor-wants-winner-nate-diaz-rematch\/\">Eddie Alvarez has repeatedly asked for a fight with the winner of McGregor-Diaz II<\/a>, leaving the door open for McGregor to potentially contest for the lightweight championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Conor McGregor&#8217;s highly anticipated welterweight rematch with Nate Diaz less than a week away, many are wondering what will be next for the featherweight champ. 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