ESPN got an exclusive chat with Conor McGregor in the wake of the fall-out with the UFC which saw him pulled from the UFC 200 card.
McGregor opened up on SportsCenter about the row over his media obligations in the run up to his rematch with Nate Diaz.
The Notorious called it a "publicised civil war" that stemmed from being asked to hop on a series of flights that would take him to New York, Las Vegas and California to promote the fight along with what he says amounted to "70 press conferences, talk shows and adverts".
McGregor claims he was willing to do New York and then the other obligations later - but had asked for "reasonable media" while he was, in his own words, "getting right" and focussing on training.
He pushed back, the UFC pushed back and then he sent *that* tweet and everything went into meltdown.
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/722492455732584448
"Then all of a sudden you're off 200 and I was like 'well fuck you too then," he says.
But it's his answer - or lack thereof - at the end of the clip that is perhaps most puzzling about where we're at with McGregor and the UFC.
When asked if he would be fighting in the UFC again, he replied rather vaguely: "I'm committed to the fight game. I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges."
Reports seemed to suggest that McGregor's meeting with president Dana White last week were positive - but we could still be a way off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2ZcqDQDwQE
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