Watch the McGregor-free UFC 200 press conference; news & notes

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It’s been that kind of week for the UFC, publicly dealing with one of their biggest stars retiring and then un-retiring, and announcing they were pulling him out of July’s UFC 200 event due to him not showing up for today’s press conference and other promotional events. (That’s Conor McGregor, by the way.)

Without a main event and with Nate Diaz floating in the wind without an opponent, who knows what will be said at Friday’s UFC 200 press conference? Well, you will know if you watch the stream below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3gTwkCutlQ

Emanating from Las Vegas, NV, you’ll see women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate and challengers Amanda Nunes, strawweight champion Joanna Jedrezejczyk and challenger Claudia Gadelha, lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos and Eddie Alvarez, interim featherweight title contenders Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar, and heavyweight opponents Cain Velasquez and Travis Browne.

Action kicks off at 5 PM EST/2 PM EST. You never know what surprises are in store, especially during this week.

Here’s some notes for those watching this late via Dave Meltzer:

– The first major news is that White announced that Nate Diaz will fight on UFC 200 and have a new opponent. White said you have to show up for the press conferences and shoot the commercials, and said everyone here has better things to do. He said they gave McGregor every opportunity to be here. 

– White said they don’t have an opponent yet for Diaz.

– White brought up that Jose flew in the day his sister got married, stayed here, and fighters have done this, said appearing at the press conferences is part of the job.

– Diaz said he came to fight McGregor and isn’t interested in anyone else.

– White said the fight is three months away which is why they did this this early.  He said he wants Conor to fight but you can’t not show up.  White said he’s ruling out Conor at this point.

– When the rumor of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. GSP at UFC 200 was brought up, White said as far as he knows that’s completely inaccurate.

– Nate Diaz said that if he doesn’t get McGregor, he’s going on vacation.

– Dana White said they’re spending $10 million on promotion and shooting a commercial and said the production crew has been shooting the commercial the last few days and McGregor didn’t come.

– He said Aldo vs. Edgar will fight and the winner will fight Conor.