Dana White isn’t shopping for Ali Abdelaziz’s current declare that Conor McGregor turned down a combat with Justin Gaethje on 5 totally different events.
Throughout a current interview with Submission Radio, Abdelaziz, the supervisor of high MMA fighters together with Kayla Harrison, Kamaru Usman, Henry Cejudo, and Gaethje, claimed that the Irish megastar was supplied to scrap with the previous BMF titleholder, however refused to take action after ‘The Spotlight’ had talked trash about him on social media.
”[Conor McGregor] received supplied this combat at the very least 5 occasions,” Abdelaziz mentioned. “He by no means needed to must do something with Justin Gaethje. He mentioned the explanation he didn’t wish to combat Justin was as a result of Justin talked unhealthy to him on Twitter and Instagram earlier than and the historical past now we have with him. He didn’t wish to lose to our workforce, I suppose.”
Dana White disputes Abdelaziz’s declare about conor McGregor
Requested if there’s any reality to Abdelaziz’s feedback, White denied the assertion suggesting that the promotion has by no means had an issue with McGregor accepting a combat irrespective of who the opponent.
”I don’t know if that’s true,” White mentioned following Tuesday’s episode of DWCS. “I’ve mentioned this many occasions and I’ll say it once more, I imply, we even have video footage of Lorenzo and I strolling into his [McGregor] home that he was renting right here. He simply awoke, telling him the combat fell out, and he’s actually leaving going, ‘Properly, I’m going to coach, let me know who I’m preventing once I get again.’ We’ve by no means had these sort of points with Conor McGregor.’
McGregor could also be prepared to step contained in the Octagon with anybody, the previous two-division titleholder hasn’t made competing an enormous precedence lately. In June, he was scheduled to headline UFC 303 in opposition to former Bellator champion ‘Iron’ Michael Chandler earlier than bowing out resulting from a damaged pinky toe.
Chandler has since opted to maneuver on and can now face Charles Oliveira at UFC 309 subsequent month. As for McGregor, there’s nonetheless no date for when followers can count on to see him compete. Beforehand, McGregor was rumored to combat at UFC 296 in December. When that didn’t occur, everybody assumed he would return at UFC 300 in April. Clearly, that didn’t occur.
Now early 2025 seems to be the plan, however don’t look forward to finding anybody holding their breath in anticipation.