{"id":96579,"date":"2014-05-07T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=96579"},"modified":"2014-05-07T21:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T04:25:25","slug":"dana-white-explains-grant-and-diaz-ranking-removals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-explains-grant-and-diaz-ranking-removals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Explains Grant and Diaz Ranking Removals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/video-dana-whites-ufc-170-pre-fight-media-scrum\/dana-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87117\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87117\" title=\"Dana Png\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-Png.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-Png.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-Png-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-Png-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cEveryone is talking about Nate Diaz being removed and so has TJ Grant, for inactivity. Early on we let Dominick Cruz hold the title for as long as we did. But it\u2019s unfair for the guys who are staying active. When you have a guy like TJ Grant and they have an injury, that\u2019s pretty serious so they get dropped, but when they come back, they\u2019ll get added back. The same for Diaz &#8211; he\u2019s not taking any fights and we\u2019re not sure when he will. When he comes back, he\u2019ll be ranked again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tonight on Fox Sports 1, UFC President Dana White stopped by to clear the air on the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/uh-oh-nate-diaz-bounced-from-ufcs-official-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">removal of Nate Diaz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/injured-t-j-grant-removed-from-ufc-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">TJ Grant from the official UFC rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both were previously in the top 5.<\/p>\n<p>Dana also discussed the ongoing issues with Nate Diaz, check that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-boss-how-long-we-going-to-play-this-game-with-diaz\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone is talking about Nate Diaz being removed and so has TJ Grant, for inactivity. Early on we let Dominick Cruz hold the title for as long as we did. But it\u2019s unfair for the guys who are staying active. When you have a guy like TJ Grant and they have an injury, that\u2019s pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":87117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[255,3519,11,649,664,918,15,16],"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 Explains Grant and Diaz Ranking Removals | BJPenn.com<\/title>\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\/ufcnews\/dana-white-explains-grant-and-diaz-ranking-removals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White Explains Grant and Diaz Ranking Removals | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cEveryone is talking about Nate Diaz being removed and so has TJ Grant, for inactivity. 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