{"id":23357,"date":"2016-04-19T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=23357"},"modified":"2016-04-19T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:35:21","slug":"conor-mcgregor-pulled-from-ufc-200-bout-against-nate-diaz-dana-white-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/conor-mcgregor-pulled-from-ufc-200-bout-against-nate-diaz-dana-white-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor Pulled From UFC 200 Bout Against Nate Diaz, Dana White Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he&#8217;d teased it earlier in the day, and now it appears to be official &#8212; UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor has retired from mixed martial arts and will be pulled from the UFC 200 show.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor tweeted that he was retiring early this afternoon, causing a firestorm. No reason for the retirement has been given, and many suspected that the 27-year old Irishman was either joking or leveraging for a better deal.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, he seems serious, at least for now. UFC President Dana White appeared on ESPN to break the news to fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conor didn&#8217;t want to come to Las Vegas and be part of any promotional training,&#8221; White said. &#8220;He&#8217;s in Iceland training. It doesn&#8217;t make you exempt. We spend a lot of money on this stuff. Is Conor McGregor retiring? Only he can answer that question,&#8221; White said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. But he will not be a part of UFC 200.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White said that a replacement fight is being sought out for the UFC 200 main event. McGregor was scheduled to take on Nate Diaz in a re-match on the July card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he&#8217;d teased it earlier in the day, and now it appears to be official &#8212; UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor has retired from mixed martial arts and will be pulled from the UFC 200 show. McGregor tweeted that he was retiring early this afternoon, causing a firestorm. No reason for the retirement has been given, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[873,872,64],"class_list":["post-23357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-danawhite","tag-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23359,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions\/23359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}