Conor McGregor was supposed to be the headliner for this weekend’s UFC 200 event against Nate Diaz. However, he was pulled off from the card for his refusal to partake in the required media obligations.
The situation has been put to rest, and their rematch has been set for UFC 202 on August 20th. For McGregor, he thinks that things could have been handled a little better between him and the UFC management.
But at the same time, he insists he should have been given more credit, taking into account the numbers he was able to rake in during the past year alone.
“I feel I played it a bit wrong, but they also played it wrong. I’ve done an awful lot for the company,” McGregor said during the UFC 202 presser at the T-Mobile Arena on Thursday. “I feel I carried 2015 on my back. I feel like the reason there’s a $4.2 billion price tag on the company is because of me. I believe that’s what the Chinese estimate my net worth, at $4.2 billion.”
“I feel like I deserve a little bit of leeway, but I have to understand that I didn’t communicate my point well, and that was it. It is what it is, it’s in the past, here we are.”