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In a just lately interview on the IMPAULSIVE podcast, UFC CEO Dana White said, if he had his alternative, Conor McGregor would headline next summer time’s UFC battle card at the White House. McGregor appears open to the chance even naming the opponent he’d like to face at the historic event.
Former UFC title challenger and industry insider Chael Sonnen questioned why McGregor would headlined the event and doubts that the Irishman will.
“The story that Conor McGregor is being talked to, to headline the UFC White House card, I don’t buy it,” Sonnen said on his YouTube channel. “I can’t buy it. Why would we be turning to Conor McGregor? The answer is also out there. Because he’s the sport’s biggest star. If you’ve got the open check book, and you’ve got the magic wand, without saying names do you say I’m going to put as my main event the sports’ biggest star? Is that your answer? Does it matter who he’s fighting? What if it’s a championship match?
“You have an open test guide, and you’ve gotten a magic wand, and you do not use any names but you are going to put the championship on. Would you say heavyweight? Would you say ladies’s 135? Would you say, where ever Khamzat Chimaev is at? How is it that you’ll reply that query? And what if you are actually going to go for a big battle. What if you’ve got actually adopted this for a long time and you are going to do what we used to call a super-fight, but now we call it title versus title. You’re going to take a champion of a weight class and you are going to put them with another champion of a weight class. Your A aspect and your B aspect are both going to be champions. You’re not going to use names, but that’s at the ingredients you need to deliver the largest card ever.”
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White has stated in several interviews that the White House event will be the biggest fight card the promotion has ever done. To carry that distinction, the fight card would have to feature a world title bout.
“We’re brazenly saying, if we’re going to put Conor on there that there’s no title,” Sonnen said. “The largest draw must be the main event. Your largest star, regardless of belt, must be the main event. But in this case, if our largest draw and out largest star shouldn’t be a champion, or a contender in any weight class, we’re going to acknowledge up entrance that out largest show will not comprise a title which makes it a little tough down the street to go, ‘This show is greater than big. … I just assume it places you in a very uncommon spot.”
Sonnen doesn’t believe the fight card is being assembled this far out from the event, and a lot can happen over the next 10 months.
“I do not assume Conor McGregor is a shoo-in to be the main event on the White House garden. There, I’ve said it.”
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