Top UFC welterweight contender Gilbert Burns wants former two-division champ Conor McGregor bounced from the official UFC rankings.<\/p>\n
McGregor, who previously held the UFC featherweight and lightweight titles, is riding a first-round TKO win over the ever dangerous Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone, and is currently ranked No. 4 in the lightweight division. He was also very recently ranked on the fringes of the welterweight division.<\/p>\n
That being said, McGregor recently announced his retirement from MMA. He made his announcement on Twitter shortly after the recent UFC 250 card, and explained his decision in an interview with ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I’m a bit bored of the game,” McGregor told ESPN. “I’m here watching the fight. I watched the last show — the [Tyron-Woodley vs. Gilbert Burns] show — I watched the show tonight. I’m just not excited about the game, Ariel. I don’t know if it’s no crowd. I don’t know what it is. There’s just no buzz for me.”<\/p>\n Given that McGregor is ostensibly retired, Burns feels he should be bounced from the UFC rankings. Burns reminds that former UFC bantamweight and flyweight champ Henry Cejudo, who also recently retired, was promptly removed from the rankings when he hung up his gloves.<\/p>\n Burns shared his thoughts on Twitter, arguing that the same logic that pushed Cejudo from the rankings should apply to McGregor.<\/p>\n Cejudo retired they took him out of the rankings very quickly let\u2019s do it with Connor as well! 🤔🤔🤔<\/p>\n \u2014 GILBERT BURNS DURINHO (@GilbertDurinho) June 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n