White: Legal process must play out before UFC punishes McGregor

With Conor McGregor's court date for his UFC 223 incident in Brooklyn set for June 14, UFC president Dana White says he must wait for the legal process to unfold before he can punish the Irishman.

"We'll see what happens. ... He's got to be punished by the law first, but let's see what happens in New York," White told TMZ Sports on Monday.

McGregor will face charges of misdemeanor assault and felony criminal mischief within the New York legal system. White didn't put a timeline on when he expects McGregor back in the Octagon, but he did say "The Notorious" won't fight rival Khabib Nurmagomedov in Moscow, where the UFC is rumored to be set to visit in September.

"If you do a fight that big, you've got to do it in Vegas," he said about Nurmagomedov potentially battling McGregor. "Khabib will fight in Russia at some point, but it won't be that fight."