Conor McGregor has touched down in Las Vegas and is able to start filming the upcoming season of “The Final Fighter.”
Former two-division UFC champion McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) will coach a crew of males’s bantamweights and lightweights reverse former UFC light-weight title challenger Michael Chandler.
Take a look at video of McGregor arriving on the UFC Apex beneath (through Instagram):
Fighters and alternates for ‘TUF 31’ have been in Las Vegas since final Tuesday, awaiting McGregor’s arrival. Choices have been made and fighters who made the minimize for the present needed to flip over their telephones once they have been knowledgeable.
Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) can be prepared together with his crew of coaches, which incorporates former UFC gentle heavyweight and present Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader.
Retaining with ‘TUF’ custom, McGregor and Chandler are anticipated to struggle on the conclusion of the present, though no particular particulars concerning the matchup have been finalized.
McGregor, 34, was final in motion at UFC 264 in July 2021 in a trilogy bout in opposition to Dustin Poirier. The struggle was stopped within the first spherical after McGregor broke his ankle, an harm he has been recovering from since. McGregor famously grew to become the undisputed featherweight champion at UFC 194, when he knocked out Jose Aldo in simply 13 seconds. Lower than a 12 months later, he stopped Eddie Alvarez within the second spherical to win the light-weight title, changing into a two-division champion.
The upcoming season of TUF can be McGregor’s second stint as a coach on the present. In 2015, he coached reverse UFC Corridor of Famer Urijah Faber on Season 22 of the truth sequence.
Chandler, 36, joined the UFC in 2021 after a long term below the Bellator banner. Since his arrival, he has fought 5 instances, together with a shot on the light-weight title in opposition to Charles Oliveira. Identified for his thrilling, hard-hitting fashion, Chandler has taken dwelling 4 bonuses for his performances contained in the octagon.
