Lets add some context - Dana didn't force Conor back to featherweight, he literally let him book his own completely unnesseary rematch - at welterweight of all things.
Stop and let that sink in. The featherweight champion is re-matching the #5 lightweight, in a welterweight bout.
You are day dreaming if you don't think that takes an enormous amount of pull with the back office. Frankly the 200 > 202 push may have been orchestrated, considering we know Brock was signed in retrospect.
202 is on track to sell well over a million buys, and its Conor getting the opponent he wanted under the terms he wanted. That is reality on realities terms.