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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"Before [UFC 189] I was excited [about coaching TUF]. A few weeks beforehand there [were] a few different options. Potentially it should have been Jose [Aldo] should have showed up and it should [have been] me coaching against Chad [Mendes] for the next fight. That was the original plan. Then obviously what happened, Jose pulled [out] and it just threw the plans up into the air. Then, they give me Urijah [Faber] as the coach, they won't let me fight him, so my energy was gone from it. I did not want to do it. It did not mean anything to me."
Penick's Analysis: Had McGregor fought Aldo and beaten him at UFC 189, McGregor-Mendes on TUF could have made sense, but may also have been a negative to keep the division locked up. It worked out this way as Aldo needed to heal up anyway, but obviously it's a much less interesting coaching dynamic when we know the two are not going to be fighting one another. Regardless, he went through with the show, and though it doesn't mean much in regards to a legitimate feud with McGregor and Faber, it will work to keep the Irishman on television into UFC 194.
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