{"id":307340,"date":"2019-03-27T05:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=307340"},"modified":"2019-03-27T05:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:36:17","slug":"dana-white-says-hell-never-give-conor-mcgregor-a-stake-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-says-hell-never-give-conor-mcgregor-a-stake-in-the-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White says he&#8217;ll never give Conor McGregor a stake in the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former UFC lightweight and featherweight champ Conor McGregor has long campaigned for an ownership stake in the UFC. In fact, he did so as recently as earlier this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m ready to fight, I\u2019ve said that. No problem,\u201d McGregor said at a recent Q&amp;A in Chicago (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/conor-mcgregor-says-hed-accept-co-main-event-slot-if-ufc-gave-him-share-in-company\/\">BJPenn.com\u2019s Mike Pendleton)<\/a>. \u201cIf the UFC wants me to slide into that co-main event slot and help, what that is, if I slide into the co-main event it\u2019s boosting their brand over fighter rhetoric that they have. There\u2019s no problem with that. If they want me to push that and I have no problem pushing that, give me my rightful shares in the UFC company. That\u2019s all I ask. You can put me on the first fight of ESPN+ but just give me my shares. So, we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UFC President Dana White, however, it&#8217;s simply never going to happen.  Not unless McGregor buys his desired shares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConor has never come out, sat down with me, and said, \u2018I want a piece of the company, here\u2019s why,\u2019\u201d White told TMZ (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2019\/3\/26\/18282964\/dana-white-interview-reaction-conor-mcgregor-ufc-stake-never-ownership-shares-mma-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"BloodyElbow (opens in a new tab)\">BloodyElbow<\/a>). \u201cWe\u2019ve never had that conversation. We did it in text two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018I feel like I should own a piece of the company.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Conor, you know that\u2019s never going to happen.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you want to own a piece of the company, you\u2019d have to put up the money to buy a piece of the company,\u201d White concluded. \u201cThat\u2019s how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think Conor McGregor will ever get his desired stake in the UFC company?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0on 3\/27\/2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC lightweight and featherweight champ Conor McGregor has long campaigned for an ownership stake in the UFC. In fact, he did so as recently as earlier this month. \u201cI\u2019m ready to fight, I\u2019ve said that. No problem,\u201d McGregor said at a recent Q&amp;A in Chicago (via\u00a0BJPenn.com\u2019s Mike Pendleton). \u201cIf the UFC wants me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":296730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,39610],"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>Dana White says he&#039;ll never give Conor McGregor a stake in the UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dana White says he will never give Conor McGregor a stake in the UFC.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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