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Published 18:00 5 Dec 2016 GMT
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A shake-up at 145lbs saw Jose Aldo reinstated as official champion while it was decided that Anthony Pettis and Max Holloway would fight with the interim title on the line in UFC 206's headliner.
"I'm still the two-weight world champion," McGregor insisted at an event in Belfast last week while UFC president Dana White claimed that it "was Conor's decision" to relinquish his world title.
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McGregor certainly seems to be playing hardball with his employers and sent a pretty clear message to the UFC on Monday, when he posted a video of himself boarding a jet with his two belts, suggesting that he's not going to part ways with either hard-earned strap without a fight.
He would have known all along that the organisation was going to look for him to vacate one title after his UFC 205 victory as White had made no secret of that desire in the lead-up to the historic event in New York.
And the UFC would appear to be playing a similarly aggressive game as they removed their most reliable cash-cow from the featherweight rankings last week.
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But we should not be surprised by McGregor's reluctance to allow one of his titles to be ripped away as he has pushed against those plans since the very first mention of the UFC's hopes to strip him.
“I’m gonna wrap one on one shoulder and I’m gonna wrap the other one on the other shoulder, and they’re gonna need a fucking army to come take them belts off me,” McGregor said at a press conference to promote UFC 205.
And it looks like he's sticking to his guns on that.
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