To those that have utterly wiped away the concept Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler would ever occur, McGregor is right here to say you wrote the demise of that struggle too early (supposedly).
McGregor has lengthy campaigned for a spot on the UFC White Home card subsequent summer season to mark his return to the Octagon. Now, he’s gone so far as to call Chandler as his opponent for such a struggle.
McGregor introduced his intentions for the previously-scrapped struggle to happen on the White Home whereas making an look on the Fox & Associates tv program.
Conor McGrgeor simply confirmed Michael Chandler can be his opponent on the UFC White Home occasion “I’m on it. [Fighting] Michael Chandler.”
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“I’m on it,” McGregor mentioned. “I’m, that is me. Michael Chandler. Michael Chandler and myself have performed the present, The Final Fighter. We’ve had a great back-and-forth. He’s a great, powerful man. And ‘The Mac’ is happy to be again, for certain.”
Conor McGregor Says He Will Combat Michael Chandler At UFC White Home Card
McGregor and Chandler each coached season 31 of The Final Fighter in 2023. However because the yr got here and went, there was no information on a possible coaches’ struggle for these two, regardless of it being introduced on the finish of the season.
Lastly, on the UFC 300 post-fight press convention, UFC CEO and President Dana White confirmed that McGregor and Chandler would function the principle occasion for UFC 303 in June 2024. However simply weeks earlier than the struggle, a deliberate press convention in Dublin was canceled on the eleventh hour, and the struggle by no means got here to fruition.
The struggle gave the impression to be additional lifeless following Chandler’s losses to Charles Oliveira and Paddy Pimblett at UFC 309 and UFC 314, respectively. However Chandler has not too long ago expressed nice perception that he and McGregor will headline the UFC’s deliberate White Home card in June 2026.
McGregor, who not too long ago dropped out of the race for Eire’s presidency, has not fought within the Octagon since his loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021.
