Conor McGregor has been accused by Jorge Masvidal of ducking a fight by ignoring the UFC's phone calls.
The American MMA superstar would love nothing more than to settle his score with the Irishman.
The two have long been linked to a potential blockbuster bout after months of back-and-forth on social media.
But Masvidal's manager Malki Kawa has previously claimed that the Notorious rejected offers to fight his client after UFC president Dana White completely dismissed their chances of fighting each other inside the Octagon.
And Masvidal, 37, reckons it is because his rival is making too many 'stupid' demands.
During an appearance on The MMA Hour, he said: “That guy doesn’t answer the UFC’s phone calls when my name gets dropped in his mail box.
“I don’t want to drop executives in the UFC’s names, but if you ask certain members of the UFC’s staff, they’ll be like, ‘Conor’s not fighting any more, under no circumstance.’
“When they offer him the contract, he says stupid f****** things that can’t happen. He wants me to go down to 155lbs. For starters, I’m not going to go down for 155 for this c*********.
Jorge Masvidal believes Conor McGregor is deliberately trying to avoid a fight with him
"You’ve fought at 170lbs - why am I going to go down to 155? I haven’t been in that weight class for over five, six years. I can’t physically make it any more.
“So he wants to put things that are just not real, and he wants to talk s***. And yeah, I’ll entertain his s***-talking from time to time when I get bored, but we both know he’s not fighting anybody. Dana White called it a long-ass time ago: I’m too much man for him, too much size, as Dana says, and it stuck with him.
"But at the same time, he can’t do nothing about it, because he knows when we get in there, we’re both striking it up, and I’m going to crack his a**.
“I mean, everyone saw how his fights with Nate went. Then you see my fight with Nate. I touched Nate, and I made Nate dance and f****** drop to the floor and grab his stomach and pray to God. Conor knows, I’ve got power, and I’m not going to get tired throwing blows.”
McGregor, 33, became the first MMA fighter to hold UFC titles in two divisions simultaneously at featherweight and lightweight respectively but suffered a second consecutive defeat to Dustin Poirier after breaking his leg in their trilogy fight at UFC 264 in Las Vegas last July.
Now he must decide whether to stay where he is or move up to 170lbs and potentially become a three-weight champion, where he could end up fighting Kamaru Usman before a trilogy fight with Nate Diaz.
But BMF champion Masvidal is determined to get his hands on the Notorious - after he revealed he has grown tired of his constant trash talk on social media.
He admitted: “As a competitor, he ain’t bad.
"But as a person, I can’t stand this rat b****. Give you an example. Khabib wins the belt, what does Conor do? Go and talk s*** about him.
"Somebody at 205 will go and win a belt, he’ll go and talk s***. Like, he just wants to stay relevant. Obviously, I’m still a hot topic while his b****-a** is just on his couch, f****** sniffing coke or whatever the f*** he’s doing, and he wants to stay relevant, so he takes shots.
“But he’s not going to fight. UFC’s offered him this fight. As me and you both know, this could be the biggest fight in UFC history.
"Why wouldn’t he want to cash in on that paycheck? Because he knows I’m going to beat the f*** out of him, and I’m not a wrestler, so if I beat him, it really looks bad for his brand, because I’m going to beat him only one way, f****** in his face, standing up, punching him, knocking his a** out.
"It’s not going to be good for the Conor brand or his cheap-a** whiskey. So the little b**** has to do what he has to do and take to Twitter and talk s***."
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