{"id":387723,"date":"2022-05-06T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=387723"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:31:08","slug":"i-just-didnt-want-to-be-there-donald-cerrone-details-how-his-inner-bich-took-the-easy-way-out-against-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/i-just-didnt-want-to-be-there-donald-cerrone-details-how-his-inner-bich-took-the-easy-way-out-against-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Just Didn\u2019t Want to Be There\u201d-Donald Cerrone Details How His \u2018Inner Bi*ch\u2019 Took the Easy Way Out Against Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After his loss against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229, \u2018The Notorious\u2019 Conor McGregor went on a hiatus that lasted 15-months. In his comeback fight, McGregor took on long-time UFC veteran Donald Cerrone at welterweight. The fight did not last too long as it took McGregor a mere 40-seconds to absolutely demolish Cerrone in his comeback fight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As \u2018Cowboy\u2019 prepares for his last fight in the UFC, he opened up about his mental state going into the fight against McGregor which was concerning to say the least. He said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI worked my whole life to become who I am, and I worked my whole life to be UFC fighter and stand here in front of hundreds and thousands of people and fight. And on Conor McGregor fight, the biggest eyes, millions watching, my moment, and I didn&#8217;t want to be there. I cannot answer that any clearer than that. It was such a strange feeling.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7wMWIuhFK8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cerrone continued, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen I was in the back, I didn&#8217;t wanna go out there. I don&#8217;t wanna go, I don&#8217;t wanna be&#8230;So when Conor gave me the door, I took it. That was my inner b**, right? Took the door. Let&#8217;s go. Let&#8217;s get out of here&#8230;I have to live with that every day and the last couple years of my life I just didn&#8217;t want to be there.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/justin-gaethje-makes-a-startling-claim-says-fight-of-the-year-against-michael-chandler-was-boring\/\">Justin Gaethje Makes a Startling Claim; Says Fight of the Year Against Michael Chandler Was \u2018Boring\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A look back at Donald \u2018Cowboy\u2019 Cerrone and his time in the UFC\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Cowboy\u2019 made his debut in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.com\/\">UFC<\/a> in 2011 with a rear-naked choke win against Paul Kelly. Since then \u2018Cowboy\u2019 has been one of the bigger names in the UFC. During his time with the promotion, Cerrone has competed across lightweight and welterweight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-387726 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Conor McGregor\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/05\/image03-3-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cerrone came close to tasting UFC gold when he took on Rafael Dos Anjos for the lightweight belt but came up short on the night. The former WEC fighter established himself as an extremely entertaining fighter who would fight anyone, anywhere, anytime, which gained him a cult-like following in the UFC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is your favorite memory of Donald Cerrone? Let us know in the comments below!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his loss against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229, \u2018The Notorious\u2019 Conor McGregor went on a hiatus that lasted 15-months. In his comeback fight, McGregor took on long-time UFC veteran Donald Cerrone at welterweight. The fight did not last too long as it took McGregor a mere 40-seconds to absolutely demolish Cerrone in his comeback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":387725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}