{"id":264666,"date":"2017-11-30T04:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=264666"},"modified":"2017-11-30T04:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:22:41","slug":"report-conor-mcgregor-high-demands-potential-ufc-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/report-conor-mcgregor-high-demands-potential-ufc-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Conor McGregor has high demands for his potential UFC return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor&#8217;s future in mixed martial arts is as mysterious as ever. While he and various members of his team have recently discussed potential scraps with stars like <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-reasons-why-a-fight-with-tony-ferguson-does-not-excite-him\/\">Tony Ferguson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/nate-diaz\/\">Nate Diaz<\/a>, his recent <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-shares-cryptic-video-seems-confirm-run-cartel-associate\/\">troubles<\/a> outside the cage have casted some real doubt on his fighting career.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, McGregor&#8217;s recent indiscretions <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/report-conor-mcgregor-serious-danger-bar-fight-irish-cartel-associate\/\">outside the cage<\/a> aren&#8217;t the only thing that are likely to hold up his Octagon return. BJPenn.com&#8217;s own Chris Taylor has learned that McGregor has some pretty exceptional demands concerning a potential return to the cage. Apparently, the Irish star wants to be certain that no other UFC champions or pay-per-view earning fighters participate on the card that features his comeback. In other words, he&#8217;s hoping to keep as much of the pay-per-view pie as he can for himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m told that part of Conor McGregor\u2019s demands for his next potential UFC fight included that no other champions or pay-per-view-earning athletes would participate on the card. This was again referencing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC222?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC222<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Taylor (@CTaylor_96) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTaylor_96\/status\/936058148212920320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I\u2019m told that part of Conor McGregor\u2019s demands for his next potential UFC fight included that no other champions or pay-per-view-earning athletes would participate on the card. This was again referencing UFC 222\u00a0<\/span><span>in March,&#8221; Taylor explained in his Tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taylor&#8217;s intel was subsequently echoed by the ever-reliable Farah Hannoun, who confirmed she&#8217;d hear similar whispers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TWooodley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TWooodley<\/a> was referring to in an interview I saw earlier.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FXQvRXrt6y\">https:\/\/t.co\/FXQvRXrt6y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Farah Hannoun (@Farah_Hannoun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Farah_Hannoun\/status\/936058773646598145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McGregor&#8217;s last contest occurred in the boxing ring, where he came up short in his boxing debut against undefeated legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. His next most recent fight, meanwhile, occurred in his former haunts, the UFC&#8217;s Octagon, where he knocked out Eddie Alvarez to capture the UFC lightweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll ever see Conor McGregor back in the Octagon?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 29\/11\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor&#8217;s future in mixed martial arts is as mysterious as ever. While he and various members of his team have recently discussed potential scraps with stars like Tony Ferguson and Nate Diaz, his recent troubles outside the cage have casted some real doubt on his fighting career. As it turns out, McGregor&#8217;s recent indiscretions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":241836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: Conor McGregor has high demands for his potential UFC return | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/report-conor-mcgregor-high-demands-potential-ufc-return\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Report: Conor McGregor has high demands for his potential UFC return | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Conor McGregor&#8217;s future in mixed martial arts is as mysterious as ever. 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