Although nobody is saying it out loud, the underlying current when Dana White announced the pulling of Conor McGregor from the UFC 200 main event was swirling at full speed. But this wasn’t the first time that tensions appeared to surface between the UFC and one of it’s biggest starts ever.
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Kicking off promotion for what was to be the lightweight championship fight between Rafael dos Anjos and McGregor at UFC 197, there was an absent body from the beginning of the kickoff press conference. That was Conor McGregor. And Dana White wasn’t happy.