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The Takedown | UFC 249: should Conor McGregor stay at 170 pounds or gear up for Khabib vs Ferguson winner?
- Dana White says a potential McGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov/Tony Ferguson rematch won’t happen until autumn
- This leaves McGregor with the chance to fight once before then and presents him with a problem many around the UFC are starting to ask
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If all goes according to plan, sometime this year, we will witness the biggest UFC fight of all-time.
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UFC president Dana White confirmed Conor ‘The Notorious’ McGregor will get a chance to face the winner of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Tony Ferguson at UFC 249 for the lightweight championship on April 18. All accounts are Nurmagomedov will dispatch Ferguson, and anyone betting against that line is probably drinking a bit too much of the El Cucuy’s tequila.
Grab the popcorn, crack the beers, amass the troops, we are in for a doozy of a rematch between the Russian and the Irishman. This will be what many believe is a fight that could rival McGregor’s boxing match against Floyd Mayweather when it comes to dollars, cents, trash talking, Twitter feuds, assault charges and general skulduggery.
Or wait … will we?
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Digging deeper into White comments during his appearance on The Will Cain Show offers an interesting asterisk and alternative hypothesis – that the fight has been offered and is nowhere near being signed in blood.
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