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Great night of boxing ahead. Going with Barosso to beat Crolla via KO. Pulev to beat Chisora on points. Lemieux to beat Tapia via KO. Canelo to KO Khan.

Best thing about the AJ fight is Groves-Murray on the undercard. Great fight that.

Best of luck tomorrow GHH. Really hope justice is finally served.

Lethal is the right word alright. Hope he calls out Canelo big time now.

Decent fight that. Hope Chocolatito gets the Estrada fight next.

I fear for Wade's health tbh. I think it'll be over early. Also Frampton v Santa Cruz agreed for NYC in the summer. Brilliant fight that.

McGregor Statement. I am just trying to do my job and fight here. I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote. I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting. There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop. 50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I'm left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this. Nothing else was going through my mind. It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life. Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a **** morning show did not get me this life. Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a **** about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now. I'm coming for my revenge here. I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep. With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight. I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again. I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment. But it was denied. There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me. So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them. And all with one tweet. Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good. I must isolate myself now. I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time. I can not dance for you this time. It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here. Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it. He came in with no **** to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out. Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation. I'm doing what I need for me now. It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way. I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway. I am still ready to go for UFC 200. I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions. If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say. For the record also - For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations - I AM NOT RETIRED.

I've just had contact with an immediate family member of #McGregor , and it would appear the retirement tweet is to be taken at face value — Jonathan Shrager (@JonathanShrager) April 19, 2016 #McGregor Update 1/2: Conor confirmed to my source (see earlier tweet) a couple of hours ago that he's retired — Jonathan Shrager (@JonathanShrager) April 20, 2016 #McGregor Update 2/2: Conor informed my source that the promo tour was unrealistic; not just the presser, it was more like a mini world tour — Jonathan Shrager (@JonathanShrager) April 20, 2016

Dana just confirmed Conor has been pulled from UFC 200

The Cuban amateur set up is known to be a bit of a mess though and if you watch Joshua's fights in the Olympics back you'll see he was basically gifted the gold medal. Probably because it was on in London. I think Joshua could be really good but for me right now Fury and Ortiz definitely beat him. Joshua may retire the best of the lot though still improving with every fight.

Teammate's opponent that got killed. There's a lot of talk that it isn't just a trolling job. Thinking it might be some kind of dispute over money or he's torn his ACL again but God only knows.

I'd definitely take 2nd place, a title race and a spot in the champions league over losing a Europa League final and a league cup final. Win the Europa League and I'd agree though. Agree with all your comments about Liverpool. Klopp is clearly the best thing to happen in a long long time and he still hasn't properly put his stamp on the team. Spurs though for me once they keep hold of Pochettino will keep improving too. Still a very young team. Depending on what Klopp does in the summer I can see Liverpool and Spurs being top 4 sides for a while to be honest. Both building something really good. Jesus Christ himself wouldn't be able to get Leeds out of the Championship with their current owner unfortunately.

Think I'd rather be 17 points ahead in the table though tbf.

Your overrating Joshua a lot there imo. He still has some ways to go in his development and has beaten nobody of note. 1. Fury 2. Wlad 3. Ortiz 4. Wilder 5. Povetkin Next tier of Pulev, Haye, Joshua, Parker, Stiverne

Yeah unfortunately (or fortunately really, I love seeing England collapse) your 100% right. Hodgson will find a place for him. No doubt that the spine should contain Dier, Ali and Kane though for me. I'm actually convinced the FA set some type of quota for Man Utd players in the squad. No doubt Rashford will probably find a way to make the squad and all.

Dele Alli and Harry Kane's link up play is pretty special. If I was English I'd actually be letting myself get half excited. Surely Hodgson can't find an excuse to start Rooney in the summer.

Spurs quite comfortably play the best football in the league at the moment. Would love to see them catch Leicester.

Spence v Brook needs to happen this summer.

Joshua - Martin and Pacquiao - Bradley both tonight. Think Martin is a live underdog but reckon Joshua wins by KO in or around the 5th round. Fancy Bradley to beat Pacquiao on points but should be very close.

The Eubank-Blackwell fight was one of the most entertaining one sided fights I've seen in a long time. Scary stuff about Blackwell but thankfully it sounds like he won't need surgery and should be ok. Got to think his career is in serious doubt though. Would love to see a Eubank-Lemieux fight some time down the line. Would be an absolute brawl.

Like Clyne a lot too tbf. Would take Seamus Coleman over present day Zabaleta every day of the week though.

I never said the Aldo fight was on short notice! My point is McGregor could have easily ducked Mendes or Diaz in the past. He had a valid reason given the fact he was training for a different opponent. There are many fighters out there who I expect would not have agreed to those conditions. I don't believe fighting Diaz at 170 favored Conor whatsoever. The fight reflected that. All I'm saying is that there is zero logic in believing he's scared of Edgar. No valid argument to be made for it. The Diaz fight will make more money and give him the change to avenge his defeat so it makes sense he'd take that first.

So McGregor has no problem fighting Chad Mendes on a few days notice, fighting Jose Aldo and on short notice moving up to 170 to fight Nate Diaz but for some reason he's afraid to fight Frankie Edgar? Find it difficult to find any logic in that tbh.

Zero logic to this whatsoever. Pretty clear McGregor avoids no one at this stage. He simply wants to avenge the loss of Diaz who he believes he can beat. Nothing else to see here.

McGregor v Diaz II happening at 170. via Ariel Helwani on the MMA hour.. An interesting thing has happened since I put out this report. Of course, a lot of other media sources confirmed it and that's all well and good, and they did it right and credited, I have no beefs, but, a lot of what was reported was incorrect. By the time that news came out a lot of people said 'Well, they're working on it, but there are no contracts.' I can assure you that the contracts had already been issued. Not signed, but anyone who told you that there were no contracts issued thus making it less of a real thing, that was inaccurate. Make no mistake about it, the reason this fight is happening at 170 lbs is because, to be frank, Conor McGregor is a bit of a wildman. He is obsessed with the idea that he lost to Nate Diaz at 170 lbs, he feels like he should have won, and he wants the same circumstances. He wants to do it again, and prove that he is the better man.