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27th March 2019
03:01pm GMT

"Let me ask you a question — we were going to do, the fight that was going to be on the card with him was probably going to be the heavyweight championship. Should that be the co-main event?"Having convinced Daniel Cormier to postpone his retirement, White was aiming to have 'DC' defend his heavyweight belt this summer and didn't feel right having a heavyweight title fight - traditionally the biggest bout in combat sports - play second fiddle to a non-title McGregor bout.
"The more people I hear from, the fans and the media and all this shit, if I end up putting Conor McGregor not as a champion on the main event, I guess I don’t have to listen to any bullshit do I?" White added.
"So if I didn’t do it this way and just made him the main event with no title, no nothing, everybody would go fucking mental and go nuts and start chirping about 'oh he gets favouritism. 100 per cent."
Earlier this month, McGregor claimed that he would be happy to accept a co-main event fight in exchange for shares in the UFC but White dismissed the Irishman's demand in no uncertain terms.
"If you want to own a piece of the company, you’d have to put up the money to buy a piece of the company," White said on TMZ. "That’s how it works."Explore more on these topics: