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Published 11:30 24 Nov 2016 GMT
McGregor's history-making knockout of Eddie Alvarez only made the target on his back grow exponentially, but in the post-fight press conference he dropped the news that he would be taking some time off from fighting as his girlfriend is expecting a baby.
He added that two things will have to happen before he steps back into the Octagon - the UFC's new owners will need to talk business with him and he wants a bigger slice of the company's pie in the form of equity. Until that happens, it looks like all the top 145 and 155 lb contenders will have to slug it out among themselves to decide who deserves the next Red Panty Night.
He let the entire roster know where they stand with a social media post on Wednesday evening. The timing of the tweet was interesting as it came just a few hours before top lightweight contender Khabib Nurmagomedov revealed the cheeky Twitter DM he sent to the Notorious.
Must have struck a nerve.
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/801483004313042945
If The Eagle took issue with it, you could bet your bottom dollar that the only man to defeat McGregor inside the UFC's Octagon was going to get in on the action too.
One half of Stockton's proudest fighting sons, Nate Diaz, was quick to remind everyone that McGregor hasn't steamrolled every opponent he's ever faced in the world's largest MMA promotion.
Diaz, of course, finished McGregor in UFC 196's headline act forcing the tap with a rear-naked choke in the second round after outlanding McGregor throughout the course of the fight. However, McGregor got his revenge at UFC 202 by defeating Diaz via majority decision. With the series tied at one apiece, it sets things up perfectly for a trilogy fight which we have no doubt Diaz was pushing for with this post.
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