UFC president Dana White insisted he has no regrets about pulling Conor McGregor from the UFC 200 card, despite the headline bout for Saturday's Las Vegas event being removed after Jon Jones' potential doping violation.
McGregor's fight with Nate Diaz was initially supposed to headline UFC 200, but it was replaced by interim light heavyweight champion Jones' bout with Daniel Cormier when the Irishman refused to fly to Las Vegas to do media duties, per ESPN's Brett Okamoto.
Despite the huge blow of having to remove UFC 200's headline act for a second time, White emphatically responded to John Kavanagh, McGregor's coach, when questioned on whether there were now regrets over taking the Notorious off the card:
Per BBC Sport, the main event on Saturday will now be the heavyweight bout between American Brock Lesnar and New Zealander Mark Hunt.
More to follow.
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