In a not too long ago interview on the IMPAULSIVE podcast, UFC CEO Dana White stated, if he had his selection, Conor McGregor would headline subsequent summer season’s UFC combat card on the White Home. McGregor appears open to the likelihood even naming the opponent he’d wish to face on the historic occasion.
Former UFC title challenger and business insider Chael Sonnen questioned why McGregor would headlined the occasion and doubts that the Irishman will.
“The story that Conor McGregor is being talked to, to headline the UFC White Home card, I do not purchase it,” Sonnen stated on his YouTube channel. “I am unable to purchase it. Why would we be turning to Conor McGregor? The reply can also be on the market. As a result of he is the game’s largest star. Should you’ve acquired the open test e book, and you have the magic wand, with out saying names do you say I will put as my essential occasion the sports activities’ largest star? Is that your reply? Does it matter who he is preventing? What if it is a championship match?
“You have got an open test e book, and you’ve got a magic wand, and you do not use any names however you are going to put the championship on. Would you say heavyweight? Would you say ladies’s 135? Would you say, the place ever Khamzat Chimaev is at? How is it that you’d reply that query? And what if you happen to’re actually going to go for a giant combat. What if you happen to’ve actually adopted this for a very long time and you are going to do what we used to name a super-fight, however now we name it title versus title. You are going to take a champion of a weight class and you are going to put them with one other champion of a weight class. Your A aspect and your B aspect are each going to be champions. You are not going to make use of names, however that is on the components you must carry the largest card ever.”
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White has said in a number of interviews that the White Home occasion would be the largest combat card the promotion has ever achieved. To hold that distinction, the combat card must function a world title bout.
“We’re brazenly saying, if we will put Conor on there that there is no title,” Sonnen stated. “The most important draw ought to be the principle occasion. Your largest star, no matter belt, ought to be the principle occasion. However on this case, if our largest draw and out largest star will not be a champion, or a contender in any weight class, we will acknowledge up entrance that out largest present won’t comprise a title which makes it slightly troublesome down the street to go, ‘This present is greater than huge. … I simply suppose it places you in a really uncommon spot.”
Sonnen does not consider the combat card is being assembled this far out from the occasion, and rather a lot can occur over the following 10 months.
“I do not suppose Conor McGregor is a shoo-in to be the principle occasion on the White Home garden. There, I’ve stated it.”
