UFC news – Dana White discusses Conor McGregor’s feud with Khabib Nurmagomedov
UFC president Dana White believes Conor McGregor’s long-standing feud with Khabib Nurmagomedov could eventually develop into the pair having mutual respect for one another.
During an appearance on CNN, he said: “I don’t think these guys are going to be friends and hanging out and going to dinner stuff.
“But listen. When you get in there with another guy and you fight it out for what would end up being seven, eight, nine, ten rounds between these two, there ends up becoming a sort of mutual respect.
“And I think that we will get to a point someday where these two have a mutual respect for each other. They don’t have to like each other.”
UFC news – Israel Adesanya hits out at Robert Whittaker
Interim UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has branded undisputed 185lbs champion Robert Whittaker a ‘fake’ and insisted he’s already in The Reaper’s head ahead of their unification bout.
“I don’t think about him [Whittaker], I think I am in his head already,” Adesanya told 1 NEWS.
“I know I’m in his head, I know some things. I know he doesn’t want to fight me.”
When asked what his problem with Whittaker is, Adesanya added: “It’s fake. I don’t like fake. I can smell fake.”
UFC news – Marlon Moraes reflects on TJ Dillashaw’s drug ban
UFC men’s bantamweight title challenger Marlon Moraes believes the two-year ban bestowed on TJ Dillashaw for testing positive for EPO isn’t a strong enough sanction.
“We are all disappointed,” Moraes told recently told MMANews. “It was a fairy tale.
“We don’t know if he’s really that good of a fighter. It’s hard cause every time we get into camp, we want to get into shape, we want to get our conditioning good and this guy he wasn’t worried at all about that.
“If he was cheating now, he was cheating before. He goes on the media and tries to say he’s giving up the belt.
I think he was just trying to trick the fans but at the end of the day, what happened? They suspended him and I’m nobody to judge him but now he’s going to have to pay for what he did.”
He added: “Two years is not enough. It’s not enough for what he does, it was really serious, that’s my opinion.”