Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz retire?!
 

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https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/John_Kavanagh/st...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

http://entimports.com/2016/04/conor-...-announcement/
http://entimports.com/2016/04/mcgreg...z-rematch-off/
http://www.cbssports.com/general/eye...tirement-tweet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ufc...y-serious.html
http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/conor...eet-isnt-joke/
http://www.mmamania.com/2016/4/19/11...on-twitter-mma

Supposedly it's fake

I just seen this at 411mania.com

wonder if he's serious, diaz is dissing him by sayin he retired too lol

should be interesting from here

Yeah I figured after i saw diaz's tweet. Lols

tix for 200 go on sale next week. there's no way that this is more than him putting on the squeeze to get more money from the UFC.

it's for sure about money. UFC just called his bluff and pulled him from the card.

http://www.ufc.com/news/McGregor-Pulled-from-UFC-200

Lmao

Wow. Lol

espn was saying it might have something to do with the fighter who died last week.

he was at that fight but i don't think it's that. he was told to attend a press conference in Vegas he basically said no because he was training in Iceland, Dana told him he had to, Conor dug his heels in. Dana then said he's pulling him from the card, Conor tweets his retirement to get everyone biting

looks at avy.

ayeeee that boy got in got his bread and got out

thats whats up

He won't retire...he'll be back and the fight when he comes back will pay serious money due to this drama.

Boy is a money maker...he knows what he's doing. Can't pretend I'm not disappointed tho.

true ^

I am just trying to do my job and fight here.

I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.

I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting. There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop. 50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I’m left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this. Nothing else was going through my mind.

It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life. Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a fuck morning show did not get me this life. Talking to some lady that deep down doesn’t give a fuck about what I’m doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I’m cool with that too, I’ve been giving you all raises.

But I need to focus on me now.

I’m coming for my revenge here. I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep. With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight. I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.

I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment. But it was denied. There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me. So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them. And all with one tweet.

Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good. I must isolate myself now. I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time. I can not dance for you this time. It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I’ve danced us all the way here. Nate’s little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it. He came in with no shit to do that last one. I’d already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.

Maybe I’ll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation. I’m doing what I need for me now. It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way. I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway. I am still ready to go for UFC 200. I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.

If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don’t know what to say. For the record also – For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations – I AM NOT RETIRED.

i hear ppl saying he going to wwe lol

^^^^

Please read above

i believe the UFC drastically underpays their fighters. I believe Connor and the other top stars are the ones that are going to end up making the UFC pay the underlings more money. But in this instance Connor is not fighting for more money it seems. He's just wanting to be treated different/better than the other fighters. Fuck that. Get your ass out there and promote the fights like EVERY OTHER fighter is doing.

I think dana will cave n give him what he wants

sherdog just reported that Mctappy vs Diaz 2 has been officially scrapped.

My thoughts exactly.

I disagree wholeheartedly. 200 promotes itself and the gate will be ridiculous/record breaking. He's promoted more than any other fighter these last couple of years. More media attention, more interviews, more clickbait nonsense. His preparation was off at times because of this (vs Mendez for sure). If he wants to train let him train.

its in your contract to do all press obligations the ufc sees fit.

ITS HIS JOB

no one has ever gotten out of it, look at the diaz bros, nick specifically. he's been suspended fined etc for not playing along and he has an actual legit reason for being a socially autistic retard probably at a level where it can be deemed a disability lol.

i'm a bodyman. if i decide all i'm gonna do from here on out is fix dents and other repairs on cars, but i'm not gonna sweep up the shop, take trash out, and close up, my boss is gonna be like wtf thats part of your JOB

what does he need to do in iceland that is so important? some MOVEMENT TRAINING LMFAO

he doesn't deserve preferential treatment.

you're just retarded

he doesn't do press tours by himself EVER. He's done them with opponents. Now have a good deal of those opponents fallen out due to injury? Sure....but he could've turned down the fights offered to him afterwards. He didn't. And I have no clue what you're talking about that it was off with mendez "for sure". You sound like a fan boy.

He can train. But it's in his contract to meet media obligations just like everyone else. The fight isn't even for 3 months.

I'm not a fan boy. I'm friends with his friends. You sound like a typical arrogant obese American. I'll be exiting this thread now.

^ LOL friends with his baby momma's sisters plumber...cool story bro.

Something like that, little man.