As UFC 257 approaches, promotion president Dana White says he’s currently in “a good place” with headliner Conor McGregor . In September, McGregor (22-4 MMA, 10-2 UFC), who takes on Dustin Poirier in the main event of the upcoming UFC 257 pay-per-view, released a series of private direct messages he exchanged with his boss. The message release came in the midst of McGregor’s negotiations with the UFC for his next fight, but what bothered White most was that another fighter, “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 1 middleweight winner Diego Sanchez , was mentioned. McGregor asked to fight Sanchez, to which White replied, “Bro… We should lose our (promoter’s) license if we make that fight.” “We were in a really bad place then,” White told UFC broadcast partner ESPN in a recent interview.
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