Conor McGregor has been pulled from his next fight, UFC200 in Las Vegas.
Opening up about the fighter, UFC President Dana White said the sports star was pulled from the event after he refused to take part in publicity.
“Well, what’s happened is, we’ve pulled Conor McGregor from UFC 200. And we;re working on other fights right now,” he said.
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“Conor did not want to come to Las Vegas to film the commercial or be a part of any of the marketing that we have,” he told ESPN SportCenter.
“He’s in Iceland training and (not participating in the marketing) is not possible. This has only happened one other time in UFC history.”
The organisation had taken to their Twitter to announce the new that the 27-year-old wouldn’t be on the fight bill for UFC200.
BREAKING NEWS: UFC pulls @TheNotoriousMMA from #UFC200. @danawhite on @SportsCenter now.
— UFC (@ufc) April 19, 2016
The Crumlin native sent Irish fans into a tizzy after he tweeted he was retiring from the sport.
