{"id":325259,"date":"2019-09-13T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=325259"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:57:09","slug":"donald-cerrone-sends-message-to-long-absent-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/donald-cerrone-sends-message-to-long-absent-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Cerrone sends message to long-absent Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Cerrone believes a win over Justin Gaethje will give him a big push in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/donald-cerrone-believes-nurmagomedov-is-next-if-he-beats-justin-gaethje\/\">a lightweight title shot<\/a>. One fighter who could conceivably cut ahead of Cerrone in line, however, is Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a scrum ahead of his fight with Gaethje, Cerrone was asked if he was worried about McGregor returning and jumping the contendership lineup. He responded by expressing doubt that McGregor, who he was briefly expected to fight earlier this year, will ever even fight again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Cerrone Tells Conor McGregor: &#039;Sh*t or Get Off the Pot, Bro&#039;- MMA Fighting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j17iX9iePCo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you think he comes back though?&#8221; Cerrone said of McGregor. &#8220;I mean, damn, there&#8217;s been a lot of talk, a lot of years. To me, chasing that [fight], it&#8217;s not even worth it to me anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cerrone then offered a piece of advice to McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you going to come back?&#8221; He said, essentially telling McGregor to fight or stop talking about it. &#8220;S**t or get off the pot, bro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Cerrone and Justin Gaethje will collide in the main event of UFC Vancouver this Saturday night. In this fight, Cerrone will look to rebound from a doctor-induced loss to Tony Ferguson. In his next most recent fights, he picked up impressive victories over Al Iaquinta and Alexander Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Gaethje, meanwhile, is riding the momentum of two-straight knockout wins over James Vick and Edson Barboza.<\/p>\n<p>As aforementioned, Cerrone feels that a win in Vancouver, should push him toward a lightweight title shot \u2014 although he&#8217;s willing to take a fight at welterweight while Tony Ferguson gets his title shot first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I beat Gaethje, there\u2019s nobody else (except Nurmagomedov),\u201d Cerrone said during an interview at the UFC Vancouver open workouts (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/donald-cerrone-ufc-on-espn-16-bmf-belt-justin-gaethje-knockout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cThat\u2019s it, there is no one in front of me. I do want to fight in December though. I\u2019ll have to take a little 155 break go to 170, we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Conor McGregor will respond to this message from Donald Cerrone?<\/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 9\/13\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Cerrone believes a win over Justin Gaethje will give him a big push in the direction of a lightweight title shot. One fighter who could conceivably cut ahead of Cerrone in line, however, is Conor McGregor. Speaking at a scrum ahead of his fight with Gaethje, Cerrone was asked if he was worried about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":324841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,10134,39610],"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>Donald Cerrone sends message to long-absent Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lightweight contender Donald Cerrone sends a message to Conor McGregor \u2014 a man many believed he would end up fighting this year.\" \/>\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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