{"id":325728,"date":"2019-09-19T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=325728"},"modified":"2019-09-19T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:25:20","slug":"dana-white-expects-conor-mcgregor-to-fight-in-early-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-expects-conor-mcgregor-to-fight-in-early-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White expects Conor McGregor to fight in early 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of months, one of the biggest questions in MMA has been when will\u00a0Conor McGregor fight again. The Irishman has been tweeting and hinting at returning but no fight has been booked by the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor has remained adamant he wants to have his rematch with Khabib Nurmagomedov. But, in an interview with ESPN, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-was-slated-to-fight-justin-gaethje-before-hand-injury\/\">he revealed he was scheduled to fight Justin Gaethje in July<\/a> before a hand injury derailed that.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he has continued to call out a bevy of fighters on social media and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-sends-location\/\">recently made this cryptic tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dublin, December 14th.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1173423846524952576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dublin, December 14th,&#8221; Conor McGregor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, UFC 245, the final pay-per-view of 2019 is scheduled for that date so many thought he would be fighting on that card. However, according to UFC president, Dana White that is not the case. Rather, he expects him to return in early next year, he revealed in a fan Q&amp;A on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Q: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AskDana?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AskDana<\/a> when&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheNotoriousMMA<\/a> gonna fight?<br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theothercanelo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheOtherCanelo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ugmcFnbBWT\">pic.twitter.com\/ugmcFnbBWT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; danawhite (@danawhite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite\/status\/1174767275817295875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure you saw his tweet,\u201d White said. \u201cConor wants to fight Dec. 14 in Dublin, but we have a fight in Vegas. So if he doesn\u2019t fight on that card, he\u2019ll fight early next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On what date the Irishman will return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Octagon<\/a> is still unknown. But, the good news for many MMA fans is that Dana White expects the Irishman to fight in early 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Conor McGregor, of course, last fought back at UFC 229. There <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/ufc-229-results-khabib-nurmagomedov-stops-conor-mcgregor-video\/\">he was submitted by Khabib Nurmagomedov in the fourth round<\/a>. The fight marked his first Octagon appearance in nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>Before that Nurmagomedov fight, Conor McGregor had a blockbuster boxing match against Floyd Mayweather, which he lost by TKO.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we will see Conor McGregor fight in 2020? Sound off in the comment section, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p><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\/19\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of months, one of the biggest questions in MMA has been when will\u00a0Conor McGregor fight again. The Irishman has been tweeting and hinting at returning but no fight has been booked by the promotion. McGregor has remained adamant he wants to have his rematch with Khabib Nurmagomedov. But, in an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":287262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,10112,39610],"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 expects Conor McGregor to fight in early 2020 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC president, Dana White expects Conor McGregor to return to the Octagon in early 2020 after several cryptic tweets regarding his future.\" \/>\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\/ufc\/dana-white-expects-conor-mcgregor-to-fight-in-early-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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