Dana White Open To Giving Conor McGregor A Title Shot In His Return Fight | Social Media Roundup
The UFC president Dana White has once again shown his love for Conor McGregor by revealing that he would be open to giving him a title shot in his UFC return — this and much more on Tuesday’s social media roundup.
Dana White not against giving Conor McGregor a title shot on his UFC return
In Conor McGregor’s last UFC bout, he suffered a bad leg break at the end of the first round.
McGregor is still recovering from the injury and the surgery which he had to have and is now targeting a summer return to the Octagon.
The logical thing for McGregor to do on his return would be to start from the ground up and get some warm up fights in before going in there with the top level fighters again, however, McGregor, as always wants only the best.
Recently on social media and in interviews, McGregor expressed his desire at wanting to fight the current UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira. Despite the Irishman typically getting whatever he wants in the promotion, this fight makes 0 sense as McGregor has one win at lightweight in the last six years.
The UFC president Dana White has seemingly welcomed McGregor’s proposal to want to fight Oliveira and he did not shut down the idea of the fight when asked in an interview.
Dana White lays out the possibility of a Conor McGregor title shot —
— https://t.co/wVD2dEmG5Z pic.twitter.com/DjDB1N2Q7i
— MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) March 1, 2022
According to White, it will all depend on who the champion of the division is when McGregor is set to return which will decide whether or not he can get a title fight.
This is further proof that in the UFC money matters and despite having just 2 wins in the last six years, McGregor can still find himself in title fights by just having star power.
Cain Velasquez arrested
Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velazquez has been arrested on a charge of attempted murder.
Velazquez reportedly shot someone in San Jose California.
Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was arrested Monday on a charge of attempted murder, per the San Jose (California) Police Department. Velasquez allegedly shot another man. More coming to @espnmma.
— Marc Raimondi (@marc_raimondi) March 1, 2022
It’s Fight Week!
We are officially in UFC 272 Fight Week!
This weekend bitter rivals Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal will settle their multiple year rivalry once and for all.
It’s #UFC272 Fight Week!! — pic.twitter.com/vizDUesPDf
— UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) February 28, 2022
Tyson Fury’s dad confronts Carl Frampton
Check out this video of Tyson Fury’s dad, John Fury confronting former Irish boxing champion Carl Frampton over Frampton saying that he believes that Jake Paul could beat his son, Tommy Fury.
— John Fury rages at @RealCFrampton for suggesting @jakepaul could beat @tommytntfury. —
— @Betfred Fight Odds: https://t.co/Z2IHYCEUrC#Boxing pic.twitter.com/ABAZa1w4Cg
— Boxing Social (@boxing_social) March 1, 2022
Anthony Joshua and Israel Adesanya join Lawrence Okolie on his ring walk in London
Check out this awesome picture of UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya and former heavyweight boxing world champion Anthony Joshua walking out cruiserweight boxer Lawrence Okolie for his fight at the O2 Arena this past weekend.
UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya joining AJ to walk Lawrence Okolie out at the O2 Arena ——#OkolieCieslak pic.twitter.com/pu9JZsnhDR
— UFC on BT Sport (@btsportufc) February 27, 2022
Jake Paul suggests a new judging system in boxing
This past weekend in the fight between Josh Taylor and Jack Caterall, one of the worst boxing decisions in a long time was made.
To many people’s eyes, Caterall clearly won the fight and even according toTaylor’s coach, he needed a knockout to win the fight going into the last round
In light of this situation and the growing problem with judging in boxing, Jake Paul took to Twitter to suggest and pitch a new judging system in boxing. Check out the Tweet below to see what Paul had to say.
I think there should be 6 boxing judges for title fights
3 pairs of 2
Each pair has to agree on the same score at the end of the round & if they don’t they briefly debate their reasoning
Almost like a jury system
These poor decisions change the shape of the sport forever.
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) February 27, 2022
Renato Moicano to face Rafael Dos Anjos on four days notice at UFC 272
After Rafael Fiziev tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, Rafael Dos Anjos’s position on the UFC 272 card was left unknown.
After speculation about potential fights against Islam Makhachev and Paul Felder, it is Renato Moicano who will step in to face Dos Anjos in a five round fight on just four days notice.
Verbal agreements are in place for Renato Moicano to face former champ Rafael dos Anjos this Saturday. That’s 5️⃣ rounds on 4️⃣ days notice. —-#UFC272 https://t.co/S5j97P1aPX pic.twitter.com/rA6aoMMyMT
— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) March 1, 2022
UFC 275 being targeted to be set in Singapore
UFC 275 is being targeted as the card which will mark the UFC’s return to Asia for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
UFC 275 will be headlined with a light heavyweight title fight between Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka.
Singapore is the front-runner to host UFC 275 on June 11, I’m told. https://t.co/clglWNawcU pic.twitter.com/myw6loUCa5
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) March 1, 2022
Kamaru Usman excited for the UFC 272 main event
The current UFC welterweight king Kamaru Usman is very excited about this weekend’s UFC 272 main event between Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal.
Usman has even admitted that he is a fan of both fighters.
.@USMAN84kg couldn’t hide his excitement when talking about the upcoming Convington-Masvidal fight — #UFC272 pic.twitter.com/rwIvl3WvQm
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) February 27, 2022
Vasyl Lomachenko joins a territorial defense battalion
One of the best boxers on the planet Vasyl Lomachenko is the latest Ukrainian fighter to join a defense battalion.
Three-division world champion @VasylLomachenko has suited up to help defend Ukraine from invasion. (via @MikeCoppinger)
READ MORE –: https://t.co/tJ55YUXhjY pic.twitter.com/40LjHxEgZW
— ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) February 28, 2022
