When you deliberate on seeing Conor McGregor return to the Octagon in some unspecified time in the future over the subsequent 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 yr, however it looks like there’s a brand new piece of data to report on an nearly each day foundation.
Generally it’s McGregor himself saying when and the place he’ll return. Different occasions, it’s UFC CEO Dana White utterly contradicting no matter ‘Mystic Mac’ mentioned the week earlier than.
At this time, we’ve bought the latter.
After withdrawing from his fundamental occasion slot at UFC 303 towards Michael Chandler attributable to 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 mentioned, 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 mentioned 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 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 discuss that?”
As an alternative of seeing McGregor vs. Chandler on Saturday evening, battle followers can be handled to a light-weight heavyweight champion rematch as Alex Pereira places his 205-pound title on the road towards Jiri Prochazka within the UFC 303 fundamental occasion at T-Cellular 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 gentle heavyweight title again house to Brazil. He’ll look to go two-up on the Czech because the pair of prolific knockout artists shut out this yr’s Worldwide Struggle Week in Las Vegas.
