YouTube<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be a fight that affects the rankings at all and everybody is eligible. Conor used to be a world champion, so Conor can fight anybody, but Conor is not ranked. Conor is not even licensed. So if we bring him back, we could put him with somebody that isn\u2019t ranked, an older name, a name that you know. We can bring somebody in. Tony Ferguson would not be off the table. This doesn\u2019t affect anything in the future. This is a one-night-only event.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cDo you turn to Michael Chandler? It\u2019s very hard for me to believe that Conor McGregor is going to return and that anybody else gets that opportunity,\u201d Sonnen continued. \u201cI feel if we\u2019re going by what the right thing to do, and we don\u2019t have to do that, by the way. What difference does it make? I mean, these aren\u2019t children where you\u2019re trying to do it right in Little League. Everybody gets a turn to bat. It\u2019s not like that. But if it was, I think it would have to be Chandler or at least Chandler would have to sure be considered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt won\u2019t be a rankings match,\u201d Sonnen added. \u201cThey are not likely to even do it at a weight class that exists. I mean, when you\u2019re living in Sillyville, you don\u2019t want to go part way. If you\u2019re gonna put on a main event that absolutely doesn\u2019t have anything to do with business, you\u2019re better to not do it at 155 or at 170. You\u2019re better to do it at 168 pounds. All of a sudden you\u2019re in a weight class that doesn\u2019t exist. And that in many ways, is better. Are we looking to just go right with Michael Chandler and pick up where we left off? Now, The Ultimate Fighter and all of those storylines are going to be long gone. You\u2019re gonna have a new fan base. You\u2019re gonna have to remind them of that, but at least you\u2019ve got the footage to do it. I think that\u2019s the right spot, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But \u201cIron\u201d could face some competition from former UFC lightweight Tony Ferguson. \u201cNot only is it not going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-155296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}