Conor McGregor is brilliant at promotion, better able to crawl under the skin or in the head of almost any fighter around. Conor McGregor now makes the rules in UFC ... and everyone else follows Read moreNurmagomedov, the No1 lightweight challenger, has been demanding a fight with McGregor for days. On Wednesday, he made his biggest splash yet, tweeting a direct message sent to McGregor telling the champion: “to die like a Samurai”. The UFC could try to force him to fight Nurmagomedov but McGregor has been able to dictate his recent matchups. Last week White told the Los Angeles Times that McGregor won’t fight before May.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2016 23:00 UTC