Conor McGregor insists he still holds the UFC Featherweight title after the league stripped him of it

After patching up following a very publicized rift earlier this year stemming from Conor McGregor having missed some press junkets for his supposed Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 200 match, trouble seems to be budding again between Mystic Mac and the UFC.

Recently, the mixed martial arts (MMA) league announced that McGregor relinquished his Featherweight title to interim champ Jose Aldo. At first, the move sounded like it was a mutual agreement between the McGregor and UFC, with tourney president Dana White even proclaiming it was actually the athlete's decision. Unfortunately, a discord came in not too long after with the Irish man coming out insisting that he still holds two belts, one for the Lightweight division, which he got just a couple of weeks ago and then another for the Featherweight class.

"[The UFC] is trying to strip me; well, I ain't stripped. I still got that belt. That belt's still at my home right now. I'm still the two-weight world champion. Someone's got to come take that off me," McGregor said in a recent run-in with TMZ and tipped by ESPN. "I see articles and stuff online, but I don't see that belt not in my presence. The belt is right there. I've got two world titles in my home."

In retrospect, when the announcement first came out, a lot of MMA connoisseurs as well as community members reacted negatively to the decision. Some of the pointed that it was kind of unnecessary, not to mention very confusing. As it turns out Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis's upcoming UFC 206 date was supposed to only be an interim featherweight title fight but due to some technicalities, the league acted on the situation. They promoted Jose Aldo as the division's champion which effectively had McGregor stripped of the belt in the aforementioned weight class. Given that, whoever wins between Holloway and Pettis on Dec. 10 will get a shot against Aldo and the chance to nab the very controversial accolade.

"I'll say to the UFC, and I love the company, but you're fooling nobody. Best of luck to them, but I still got those belts," McGregor furthered. "Someone has to take those belts off me physically, not online. Not through a keyboard. The keyboard warriors are trying to take belts; you've got to take those belts physically," he continued.