For those who deliberate on seeing Conor McGregor return to the Octagon sooner or later over the following few months, I’m afraid we’ve bought some unhealthy information.
McGregor’s quote-unquote “biggest comeback in fight sports activities historical past” appears like a phrase that was coined a century in the past. In actuality, it’s solely been a few 12 months, but it surely looks as if there’s a brand new piece of knowledge to report on an nearly day by day foundation.
Typically it’s McGregor himself asserting when and the place he’ll return. Different instances, it’s UFC CEO Dana White fully contradicting no matter ‘Mystic Mac’ stated the week earlier than.
Immediately, we’ve bought the latter.
After withdrawing from his foremost occasion slot at UFC 303 towards Michael Chandler resulting from a damaged pinky toe, McGregor revealed in an interview with Extreme MMA {that a} return in August or September can be optimum.
Like clockwork, White debunked every little thing the previous two-division titleholder simply stated, telling Robbie Fox of Barstool Sports activities that McGregor’s return gained’t be taking place anytime this summer season, neither is it on the docket for Fall 2024.
“Not one of the above,” White stated when requested about McGregor’s comeback in August, September, or October.
And identical to that, we’re again to the drafting board.
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To be honest, Dana White was fairly tight-lipped about McGregor’s authentic return date of June 29, even after the Irishman and his opponent had already damaged the information to the remainder of the world.
“I don’t know proper now. Our schedule is laid out. We’ll see,” White stated on the UFC Saudi Arabia post-fight press convention when requested about McGregor’s subsequent battle. “I’m not doing something till I do know that Conor is wholesome. It’s not even price speaking about. What about September? What about October? He’s not prepared. So why even discuss that?”
As an alternative of seeing McGregor vs. Chandler on Saturday evening, battle followers can be handled to a lightweight heavyweight champion rematch as Alex Pereira places his 205-pound title on the road towards Jiri Prochazka within the UFC 303 foremost occasion at T-Cell Enviornment.
The battle will function a rematch of their November 2023 conflict in Madison Sq. Backyard. There, ‘Poatan’ secured a second-round KO of Prochazka to take the vacant mild heavyweight title again dwelling to Brazil. He’ll look to go two-up on the Czech because the pair of prolific knockout artists shut out this 12 months’s Worldwide Combat Week in Las Vegas.
