If anyone can find a way to leverage out of being stripped of a title despite not doing anything to retain it, it's going to be Connor.
If I had "Mayweather-fight-money" sitting in my bank account, I'd be hard pressed to find a reason to step into any sort of combat arena and let my noggin take a whole whack more of concussion-risking, CTE-inducing head strikes.
(But if all you are going to do is cut bait ... that's fine, let someone else hold the fishing rod.)