CONOR MCGREGOR FORCED TO RELINQUISH UFC FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE!!

Live on the UFC fight night Melbourne show the UFC announced that Conor McGregor has relinquished the featherweight title. As of yet it's sounding slightly sly and that McGregor doesn't know about it yet but no news on that so far.

The UFC has appointed Jose Aldo the featherweight champion which is... hilarious. They've done this because Daniel Cormier has had to pull out of his UFC 206 main event light heavyweight championship against Anthony Johnson and the card isn't really worth the PPV especially with a fight of that magnitude has fallen off

They have made Max Holloway vs Anthony Pettis the main event for the interim featherweight title because it's also not worth the PPV without the title and for them to do that they have to upgrade Aldo's interim to a full title. (Interesting to note that Aldo has never won the title he has always been 'upgraded').

McGregor haters are happy where as the rest of us genuine fans are a little bit disappointed, not surprised but disappointed. Now we have a 'champion' that was knocked out in 13 seconds by the actual champion. Greeeaaaattt... Basically now we just wait for McGregor's tweet telling Dana White to suck his big Irish balls.

Now we speculate McGregor's next opponent! obviously with the featherweight division no longer an option it leaves a lightweight contender or the trilogy with Nate Diaz. With no stand out contender at lightweight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson, Diaz would offer the perfect solution however with that fight now very likely to be held at 155 that would mean Nate leap frogging the 2 contenders. So that puts in the place where the most likely situation is they let Conor take time off for his baby and do Khabib vs Tony for the #1 contender. If that doesn't happen then it's likely to be a McGregor vs Khabib for the 155 title because Khabib's been calling him out and talking trash about him.

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