Dana plans biggest UFC history fight vs Connor: Dana needs 'the greatest battle in UFC history' next, however Conor isn't happy to hang tight for it. On the off chance that you ask Dana White who Conor McGregor should battle straightaway, the appropriate response is a straightforward one.
A Khabib Nurmagomedov rematch is "the battle you make, the battle bodes well."
In the event that you ask McGregor, the appropriate response is far less high contrast.
Be that as it may, both can concur on a certain something: the alternatives are interminable.
The UFC's greatest star came back to the association following fifteen months out, and verified his first win in more than 1000 days as he harassed Donald 'Rancher' Cerrone for a very brisk 40 seconds.
What's more, presently, White must choose what's next for his human goldmine.
Dana plans biggest UFC history fight vs Connor
The rundown of names that could, in any event to some degree all things considered, be set by McGregor's in a 2020 battle notice include: Nurmagomedov, Jorge Masvidal, Kamaru Usman, Tony Ferguson, Justin Gaethje, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, and Manny Pacquiao.
It's senseless, yet it's valid.
"Everyone needs to battle Conor," White told columnists after UFC 246. "Everyone's needed to battle Conor for the last anyway numerous years."
Masvidal and Usman were in participation for McGregor's arrival at welterweight, Diaz and Gaethje tweeted about it, and there were battle blurbs made up and posted from both Mayweather and Pacquiao.
Be that as it may, White still needs Nurmagomedov next.
"We're in a spot right now where Conor was stating going into the Khabib battle, he had loads of individual stuff, some stuff self-delivered, he had wounds, he had every one of these things going on," White said.
"He has been fixated on getting that rematch since he realizes that he wasn't 100 percent right."
During UFC 246 battle week, McGregor said he'd been savoring the lead-up to the Nurmagomedov battle, and that he wasn't readied. White is prepared to give him another took shots at the Dagestani, who is booked to safeguard his lightweight belt in April against Tony Ferguson. It's a battle McGregor doesn't accept will occur, yet one that makes some calculated issues for the UFC on the off chance that it does.
A Nurmagomedov rematch could be a large portion of a year away, or considerably further, and McGregor, who has alternatives at lightweight, welterweight, and an alternate game by and large, wouldn't like to pause.
"I don't think the 'who' matters," McGregor said of what's straightaway. "Alright, the lightweight title will be there … I'm positively not going to, if this battle goes ahead, sit out and pause."
Many need to watch Masvidal, the UFC's 'Baddest Motherf***er', and McGregor get in the enclosure together, yet White didn't appear to be excessively sharp.
"On the off chance that Conor and Masvidal battle, neither one of them even has a title," He said. "In spite of the fact that Conor wants his BMF title."
White, who said he needed Masvidal for Usman, included: "Would I like to see Conor battle three additional occasions this year? Sure. Would I like to see Masvidal-Conor? Sure. Be that as it may, we must do what bodes well as well."
Mayweather ringed in, obviously, and both White and McGregor clarified the 42-year-old was in their arrangements.
"Floyd and I have been talking today around evening time," White said.
About?
"What do you think we've been discussing? Tune in, we're accomplishing something with Floyd … there's such a great amount of going on, yet Floyd is in our arrangements, and we are in Floyd's arrangements this year, and we'll wind up accomplishing something."
McGregor included: "You know Floyd and experiencing cash quick. So he's a long way from resigned, and that rematch will occur at some stage."
The 31-year-old respected a Diaz set of three, or more all else, reaffirmed his craving to simply battle, which could look good for a Gaethje standoff in the following hardly any months.
In the mean time, White reaffirmed his longing to profit: "I'm disclosing to you at the present time, Khabib v Conor [II] is the greatest battle in the organization, in the game's history.