In the event you 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 “best comeback in fight sports activities historical past” looks 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 every day foundation.
Typically it’s McGregor himself asserting when and the place he’ll return. Different occasions, it’s UFC CEO Dana White fully contradicting no matter ‘Mystic Mac’ mentioned the week earlier than.
As we speak, we’ve bought the latter.
After withdrawing from his essential occasion slot at UFC 303 in opposition to Michael Chandler as a consequence of 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 all the things the previous two-division titleholder simply mentioned, telling Robbie Fox of Barstool Sports activities that McGregor’s return received’t be taking place anytime this summer season, neither is it on the docket for Fall 2024.
“Not one of the above,” White mentioned when requested about McGregor’s comeback in August, September, or October.
And similar to that, we’re again to the drafting board.
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To be truthful, 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 mentioned 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 value speaking about. What about September? What about October? He’s not prepared. So why even speak about that?”
As an alternative of seeing McGregor vs. Chandler on Saturday evening, battle followers will probably be handled to a light-weight heavyweight champion rematch as Alex Pereira places his 205-pound title on the road in opposition to Jiri Prochazka within the UFC 303 essential occasion at T-Cellular Area.
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 gentle 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 Struggle Week in Las Vegas.
