Conor McGregor has reportedly ‘frozen out’ Dana White from talks on UFC future

This might explain why Uncle Dana failed to take questions at the post-UFC 194 press conference.

Dana White may contest that Conor McGregor is his promotion's biggest star, but a lightweight title win would put an end to those questions once and for all. McGregor's star has rapidly risen over the past two and a half years but there appear to be few signs of his ascent slowing. And according to journalist Jeremy Botter, McGregor might not be far off a breakaway from the UFC. The power that McGregor now holds has seen his once close relationship with White, the UFC president, turn "icy". Botter said:

"I believe that things between Conor and [UFC chief executive] Lorenzo Fertitta are okay but, from what I understand, Dana White has been frozen out of the process entirely and I don't know why. "There was going to come a point where... they've created this and now they can't put it back in the cage."

He added, "They went out and were Conor's best friends - you've seen the video of him driving with Dana down the [Vegas] strip and they're hanging out at his house when he was training here last year. "They thought they had a new best friend but what they actually had was a guy that wanted to be their business partner."