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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Conor McGregor releases statement after UFC 303 withdrawal, but provides no injury specifics  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Conor McGregor issues statement after UFC press conference with Michael Chandler is postponed  Yahoo Sports Source link

Former UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw agrees with Conor McGregor’s decision to remove himself from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency testing pool. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC), who broke his leg in a TKO loss to Dustin Poirier in July 2021, has not been tested in 2022. The way he looks bulked up right now has raised questions, but Dillashaw thinks McGregor made the right decision for his recovery. McGregor would have to re-enter the pool and complete six months of testing before he’s… Source link

Michael Chandler scored one of the greatest knockouts in UFC history on Saturday, knocking out Tony Ferguson with a front kick to the face early in the second round of their lightweight bout on the main card of UFC 274 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The first round was wild, but it only set the tone for what was to come 17 seconds into the second round. Ferguson raised his arm as if to throw a punch and Chandler hit him with a devastating front kick to the face. Chandler looked… Source link

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s masterpiece Moulin Rouge!, I want to take you back to 2001. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Northern California. And when I say “middle of nowhere,” I mean that my parents had to drive 100 miles into a town in Oregon just so I could be born because my hometown hospital was not equipped to perform C-sections. Like many youths, I struggled to connect my fellow teens. I just had nothing in common with the people I went to high school… Source link

Conor McGregor is the biggest name in UFC, likely the most famous figure in the history of the sport. When he fights, he’s the headliner. Bettors act accordingly. An overwhelming amount of the money bet on UFC 257 was on McGregor. There were some bettors on Dustin Poirier at +270, including one large wager at BetMGM just before the fight. But most of the money was on McGregor as a heavy favorite. So much money came in on McGregor, he moved from a -190 favorite to -310, which is a massive… Source link

The elation that one might have expected to see from Dustin Poirier was absent. He’d hit the MMA lottery by knocking out Conor McGregor on Saturday at UFC 257 in Abu Dhabi, but he didn’t look or act like a guy who’d had that one-in-a-billion winning Powerball ticket. You win the Powerball and you jump and you yell and you cheer and you can’t believe your good fortune. Poirier did none of that. It was like he expected to do what he’d done on one of the most remarkable nights in UFC… Source link

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – JANUARY 23: (R-L) Dustin Poirier punches Conor McGregor of Ireland in a lightweight fight during the UFC 257 event inside Etihad Arena on UFC Fight Island on January 23, 2021 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Dustin Poirier said repeatedly during the build-up to his rematch with Conor McGregor on Saturday at UFC 257 that he wasn’t the same fighter that McGregor knocked out in the first round in 2014. He proved that… Source link

Is a Khabib-McGregor rematch inevitable? (Photo by Hans Gutknecht//Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images) There’s big money to be made in another fight between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov. UFC president Dana White knows it. Conor McGregor knows it. Khabib also knows it. But he’s retired. Or so he says. McGregor: ‘He fought the worst of me that night’ After multiple prods from White to lure Khabib out of retirement, McGregor joined the campaign in an interview with ESPN’s… Source link