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Conor McGregor says he retired ‘for a day' during UFC 200 ‘debacle'

The mixed martial arts world careened into the Twilight Zone for a few short days this past April, when UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor initiated a public stand-off with the UFC with a simple 13-word tweet announcing his retirement. The tweet has since been re-tweeted and liked over 337,000 times, and within hours after its posting, the sporting world was aflutter with speculation over McGregor's intentions.

"Off I went to the gym, and then I came out of the gym and all of a sudden the thing is f*cking everywhere, like, oh sh*t," McGregor recalled Monday on The MMA Hour.