Conor Mcgregor STRIPPED of UFC Featherweight title

It was Announced live last night at UFC Fight Night Melbourne by UFC commentator John Anik that Conor Mcgregor, who was recently the first fighter in the promotions history to become two weight consecutive world champion in both the lightweight and featherweight divisions, would be 'vacating' his featherweight title. It was also announced by Anik that Jose Aldo who Mcgregor KO'd in 13 second back in December of 2015, would be promoted from interim champion to undisputed featherweight champion. 

Lightweight Champ Conor Mcgregor made history less than a few weeks ago to become the first ever dual-weight world champion in the UFC so why is he vacating his belt so soon afterwards? 
well Mcgregor hasn't defended his belt for over 11 months and after announcing the arrival of his first child in May of next year (2017) Mcgregor made it clear he wasn't going to fight again until after that date. Meaning although he claimed the UFC would 'need an army to take these belts off me' it seems the UFC has gone ahead and taken it anyway.

UFC 206 is set to take place on December 10th in Toronto Canada, a card which seems to be falling apart with both the main and co main events being pulled from the card. Daniel Cormier suffering an injury in training earlier this week causing him to withdraw from his fight again Anthony Johnson, and Kennedy vs Evans being pulled from a second card in a matter of weeks as Rachad evens is refused a licence from the states athletic commission for a second time. it was announced live on the 26th November 2015 at UFC fight night 101 that a new main event had been added to the UFC Toronto card, between featherweights Max Holloway and former lightweight champ Anthony Pettis. this fight will be for a interim featherweight title and the winner will face Jose Aldo for the undisputed featherweight belt.

UFC Fight Night 101 Whittaker Vs Brunson

An exciting main event concluded the Melbourne card between Robert Whittaker and Derek Brunson. The Australian native came into the contest the underdog (+120) while Brunson came in a +140 favourite. 

As expected judging by previous performances from Brunson, he didn't waste any time getting up close and personal with his opponent, winging hay makers as he chased Whittaker around the octagon. Whittaker however clearly anticipated the early onslaught from Brunson and although a few of his heavy hands landed in the opening seconds of the round, whittaker didn't seemed phased and weathered the early storm of his opponent.

at 2:05 of the first round, Brunson managed to successfully take down whittaker although couldn't keep his opponent on the floor and whittaker was straight back to his feet, at this point Brunson seemed to slow down and whittaker capitalised throwing multiple uppercuts landing successfully, Brunson seemed to be out on his feet as whittaker stayed patient but continued to land punches with success. 

at 1:05 of the first round whittaker landed a successful right head kick followed by 4 or 5 uppercuts to his opponent who was clearly hurt, these sent Brunson to the canvas, whittaker continued with ground and pound as his opponent was unable to defend  the referee herb dean was forced to end the contest at 0:54 of the very first round, with Robert Whittaker the winner by TKO.

check out the full fight below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3eBiNRXpKg