“McGregor should be out for more than 10 months”, guarantees Dana White

Dana (right) says that McGregor (left) will be away for a long time. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC

It seems, Conor McGregor he will be away from the octagon for a long time. According to Dana White, president of the UFC, the Irishman will be out of action for 10 months. The statement is in line with the announcement made by the lightweight champion after UFC 205, when he informed that he would “take time” from the sport due to his wife's pregnancy.

According to Dana, this reason was the main reason why the organization chose to remove McGregor from the position of featherweight champion.

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“The featherweight belt hasn’t been defended in almost a year, and Conor will be out for another ten months due to motherhood. It's not fair to the rest of the guys in the division. You can’t tie up the entire division, but I let him fight for it, I let him do it”, he declared, in an interview with the UFC Unfiltered podcast.

White also commented on Conor's recent statements, who claims he is still the two-division champion. For the president, the fact of having to give up one of the belts does not minimize the achievements achieved by McGregor.

“He had to give up the featherweight belt, but that doesn't take away his merit. He says he's still a two-division champion. Of course he is. He is a two-weight champion. This doesn't take anything away from what the guy achieved and what he did. When you look at the featherweight title, he didn't lose it. He gave up. He was never defeated and the belt was not taken from him,” he concluded.

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