Regardless of revealing plans to compete as quickly as August amid his exit from subsequent weekend’s UFC 303 card throughout Worldwide Combat Week, Conor McGregor’s plans to return again this yr might have already been quashed by Dana White, who confirmed the promotion’s schedule for the annum is already in impact.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight gold holder, was pressured to withdraw from subsequent weekend’s scheduled welterweight struggle with Michael Chandler, revealing he suffered a fractured toe simply three weeks earlier than the bout in Las Vegas.
And showing at Bellator Champions Collection 3 tonight in his native Dublin, former duel-weight champion, McGregor revealed he was already working towards a “new date” for his comeback.
“You already know, I’m nonetheless right here rocking away,” Conor McGregor mentioned. “I had slightly lapse of focus and I needed to reschedule the bout, so I’m slightly upset about that. But it surely’s conserving me dialed in, it’s conserving me centered. I can’t rock round like I’m on the market displaying up, like I’m on the market doing my job. The job shouldn’t be achieved, in order that’s not dangerous for somebody like me.”
“I’m onwards in direction of the brand new date, and take my classes discovered, it was a lapse in focus,” Conor McGregor continued. If I used to be any of those different little bums that may’t transfer, that don’t have any footwork they don’t depend on their expertise… then I’d be okay. And I’ve achieved it earlier than, I’ve made the stroll on a mess of instances below these circumstances and given these byums a bonus over me that they don’t even deserve.”
Dana White uncertain if Conor McGregor can struggle this yr
Nevertheless, talking with assembled media following UFC Saudi Arabia tonight, the aforenoted, White claimed that the schedule for the rest of 2024 was already deliberate, calling into query whether or not McGregor may compete as quickly as he desired.
“I don’t know proper now,” Dana White mentioned. “Yeah, our [the UFC’s] schedule is laid out so, we’ll see. I’m not doing something till I do know that Conor (McGregor) is wholesome. It’s not even value speaking about till – , ‘What about September, what about October?’ He’s not prepared so why even discuss that?”
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