{"id":349289,"date":"2020-05-08T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=349289"},"modified":"2020-05-08T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:02:14","slug":"conor-mcgregor-doesnt-like-the-idea-of-fighting-without-a-crowd-according-to-dana-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/conor-mcgregor-doesnt-like-the-idea-of-fighting-without-a-crowd-according-to-dana-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor &#8220;doesn\u2019t like the idea of fighting without a crowd&#8221; according to Dana White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor doesn&#8217;t appear to be too interested in fighting without a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/manager-says-conor-mcgregor-is-reignited-and-prepared-for-big-season-in-2020\/\">has been adamant of having three fights in 2020,<\/a> but due to the COVID-19 pandemic that may not happen. Although the Irishman has hinted at a summertime return, according to UFC president, Dana White, the former champ-champ doesn&#8217;t like the idea of competing without a crowd but would understand if that&#8217;s what he had to do.<\/p>\n<p>For White and the UFC, he feels the same way as he admits it would be hard to do a Conor McGregor fight without getting the gate money.<\/p>\n<p id=\"CQfOW4\">&#8220;It\u2019s tough to give up a Conor McGregor gate. It\u2019s tough to do. I talked to him yesterday and he wants to fight,&#8221; Dana White said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KOJ-Ajaoa-E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media scrum<\/a>. &#8220;He\u2019s excited about tomorrow too, he was like, \u2018This is so awesome. Good luck tomorrow, I hope this goes off well.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t like the idea of fighting without a crowd either. But, he wants to fight. So I don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll have to see how this thing plays out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You do a Conor McGregor fight in the right place, you can do an $18 million gate. That\u2019s a big number to give up. Even giving up five million, I mean this [UFC 249 main event] was supposed to be [Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson], sold out in minutes, and was like a five-and-a-half million dollar gate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conor McGregor returned to the win column <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/ufc-246-results-conor-mcgregor-kos-donald-cerrone-video\/\">last time out with a 40-second knockout win over Donald Cerrone<\/a>. Who he will fight next is to be seen, as names like Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz have come up in recent weeks. But, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/artem-lobov-says-focused-conor-mcgregor-deserves-khabib-rematch-confident-hed-dethrone-the-champ\/\">the Irishman has made it clear he wants his rematch with Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Conor McGregor and the UFC end up delaying his next fight until there can be a crowd, it could be several months until we see the Irishman back in the Octagon again.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of Conor McGregor not too interested in fighting without a crowd?<\/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 5\/8\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor doesn&#8217;t appear to be too interested in fighting without a crowd. McGregor has been adamant of having three fights in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic that may not happen. Although the Irishman has hinted at a summertime return, according to UFC president, Dana White, the former champ-champ doesn&#8217;t like the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":338858,"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>Conor McGregor &quot;doesn\u2019t like the idea of fighting without a crowd&quot; according to Dana White | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Conor McGregor doesn&#039;t appear to be too interested in fighting without a crowd said UFC president Dana White during a media scrum.\" \/>\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\/conor-mcgregor-doesnt-like-the-idea-of-fighting-without-a-crowd-according-to-dana-white\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conor McGregor &quot;doesn\u2019t like the idea of fighting without a crowd&quot; 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