Dana White discusses Conor McGregor\u2019s next opponent amid Jake Paul challenges Jake Paul\/Instagram\/Andrius Petrucenia\/WikimediaUFC boss Dana White has been talking openly about Conor McGregor\u2019s possible next opponent, and despite Jake Paul\u2019s constant challenges to the former champ, it doesn\u2019t sound like the YouTuber is in the picture. Jake Paul has been in a very public back and forth with the UFC President over fighter pay, and has offered himself up for various boxing matches with former champions who made their name in the octagon. One of those has been Conor McGregor, who\u2019s no stranger to stepping into the boxing ring for a fight. In 2017, the Irishman took on the undefeated Floyd Mayweather, who went on to extend his run to 50 fights unbeaten. With the \u2018Problem Child\u2019 putting himself firmly in the mix to fight McGregor next, all eyes have turned to UFC chiefs to answer the big question: who\u2019s next for Conor? Dana White eyes up Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz 3 During an interview on the TMZ Sports TV show, Dane White said: \u201cWe\u2019re still working on [the Diaz-Poirier] fight. That fight\u2019s not done yet. I wouldn\u2019t count out a Conor-Nate 3. Listen, I\u2019d be shocked if that fight didn\u2019t happen again.\u201d While he did not mention a timeline during the TV appearance, it would appear that the conclusion of the Conor-Nate Diaz trilogy is firmly in the company\u2019s sights. Whether this rules out a potential bout with Jake Paul any time soon remains to be seen, but it\u2019s been a longstanding point of speculation. McGregor responds to Jake Paul fight challenge On February 25, McGregor responded to Paul\u2019s challenges \u2013 and it has not been ruled out. \u201cWho knows?\u201d McGregor said. \u201cNever say never. I didn\u2019t see the Woodley fight. It only did a couple thousand buys. I saw it online. I didn\u2019t hear the diss track on Dana. I don\u2019t pay attention to all of that.\u201d EXCLUSIVE: “”It only did a couple of thousand buys \u2013 I wasn’t watching!””@TheNotoriousMMA didn’t hold back when asked about @JakePaul’s brutal KO win over Tyron Woodley Read more from our chat with Conor from #BellatorDublin tonight: https:\/\/t.co\/QQxdoaWVV7 @BellatorMMA pic.twitter.com\/0GiAD5brSx \u2014 Mirror Fighting (@MirrorFighting) February 25, 2022 In Summer 2021, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight and lightweight double-champion branded both Paul brothers \u201cdingbats\u201d and said he would be open to fighting them in the future. With McGregor fighting Nate Diaz last in August 2016 and the score set at one apiece, there\u2019s clearly a score to be settled there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White discusses Conor McGregor\u2019s next opponent amid Jake Paul challenges Jake Paul\/Instagram\/Andrius Petrucenia\/WikimediaUFC boss Dana White has been talking openly about Conor McGregor\u2019s possible next opponent, and despite Jake Paul\u2019s constant challenges to the former champ, it doesn\u2019t sound like the YouTuber is in the picture. Jake Paul has been in a very public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}