UFC 200 News

Chris Taylor - April 27, 2016

Perennial lightweight contender Nate Diaz was expected to rematch current UFC featherweight champ Conor McGregor in a welterweight bout at this July’s UFC 200 event in Las Vegas. Unfortunately for fight fans, McGregor refused to attend certain media obligations to promote the UFC 200 event and was thus pulled off the card by UFC officials.

bjpenndotcom - April 27, 2016

Early Wednesday morning, UFC President Dana White was joined by Chuck Liddell, Daniel Cormier, Frankie Edgar, Jon Jones, Paige VanZant, and Miesha Tate on Good Morning America. The UFC President announced that Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier II would headline UFC 200 on July 9th.

bjpenndotcom - April 27, 2016

Early Wednesday morning, UFC President Dana White announced that Jon Jnes vs. Daniel Cormier II would headline UFC 200 on July 9th. The bout is undoubtably a highly anticipated one, and fills the role that was left after Conor McGregor was pulled from UFC 200 for refusing to fulfill his media obligations.

bjpenndotcom - April 27, 2016

https://youtu.be/jIkgXgs2MTI Early Wednesday morning, UFC President Dana White joined Good Morning America to announce that Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier II would headline UFC 200 on July 9th.

Chris Taylor - April 27, 2016

July’s UFC 200 event in Las Vegas has a new main event! Current UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier will rematch interim UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones in the headlining bout of this summer’s blockbuster event.

Chris Taylor - April 25, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor took to Twitter last night to announce that he was “back on” July’s UFC 200 fight card in Las Vegas. Well according to UFC president Dana White, Conor’s tweet simply is not true and the Irish superstar will not be fighting at UFC 200 on July 9. His words to TMZ:

Chris Taylor - April 25, 2016

Jon Jones became the UFC’s interim light heavyweight champion last night at UFC 197 in Las Vegas, this after he defeated “OSP” via unanimous decision in the evenings main event. Jones was supposed to rematch current UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier at the event, however “DC” was forced to pull out of the bout with an injury.

Chris Taylor - April 22, 2016

According to MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani, most of the UFC fighters he spoke with at today’s UFC 200 press conference had no issue with Conor McGregor not attending the media event. I talked to several fighters who were on that stage this week, the vast majority, off the record, did not have an issue w/ Conor not coming.

bjpenndotcom - April 21, 2016

Thursday morning Conor McGregor broke his silence regarding his retirement and his fight against Nate Diaz at UFC 200. McGregor stated that the UFC’s media schedule for him ahead of the event was extremely tedious, and would have a significant impact on his training. McGregor believes that his media obligations ahead of UFC 196 sidetracked him from training, which ultimately contributed to his loss against Nate Diaz. McGregor left the ball in the UFC’s court, informing them that he is still ready to go for UFC 200, but he would not do the media obligations.

bjpenndotcom - April 6, 2016

After the UFC announced that Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz II would headline UFC 200, and that Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar would fight for the interim featherweight title, Dana White announced that fans could expect a women’s title fight. Late Wednesday evening, it was announced that Miesha Tate would defend her UFC women’s bantamweight championship against Amanda Nunes on the UFC 200 card on July 9th as well.

Chris Taylor - March 12, 2016

July’s UFC 200 event in Las Vegas is expected to have one of the best, if not the greatest, fight cards ever assembled. Fans are eagerly awaiting announcements from UFC officials regarding who will we be fighting who at this summers blockbuster pay-per-view event.