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It may not have ended on quite the electrifying note that fans may have been hoping for, but it’d be hard to say that UFC 264 didn’t deliver. Outside the co-main event, every bout ended inside the distance. Irene Aldana put on one of the best performances of her career against Yana Kunitskaya. Tai Tuivasa did a baker’s dozen of post-victory shoeys. And Dustin Poirier put himself up 2-1 on McGregor in their trilogy headliner.
So, is the UFC really angling to make McGregor vs. Poirier 4 once Conor has recovered? Is it time to get Aldana in another top contender’s bout? And can Gilbert Burns get the kind of high profile non-title bout he’s looking for?
If there is one takeaway from Thursday’s UFC 262 pre-fight press conference, it’s that “Dana White Privilege” is a phrase that will not be going away and is now part of the MMA lexicon.
The phrase’s author? None other than “El Cucuy” Tony Ferguson. Ferguson was letting out a lot of steam during the press conference about the world title shot evading him after all his years of hard work while Michael Chandler waltzed in and was awarded a title shot after one fight. To add further insult to injury, Chandler was granted the shot after being uninterested in a short-notice fight against Ferguson last year. Here is what Ferguson said at the press conference: