As Jorge Masvidal plots his comeback to the UFC, he’s received quite a lot of concepts on potential opponents. Don’t count on Conor McGregor to be certainly one of them.
To be clear, that’s not from an absence of curiosity on Masvidal’s aspect. Previous to his retirement from MMA in 2023, the UFC’s first-ever “BMF” champion referred to as for a showdown with McGregor quite a few instances. Now that he’s planning to return to motion someday in late 2024 or early 2025, Masvidal sees quite a lot of potentialities for his first combat again, however he extremely doubts McGregor ever competes once more after sitting out for the previous three-plus years.
“We’ll see him at a bar and shit,” Masvidal responded to MMA Preventing when requested if we’ll see McGregor once more. “Are you speaking about within the cage? Like as an official or to be judges? You imply preventing? I don’t suppose so. I hope he proves me incorrect however I don’t suppose so.”
McGregor has been teasing his comeback for properly over a yr already after he healed up from a devastating damaged leg suffered in his trilogy combat in opposition to Masvidal’s longtime teammate and good friend, Dustin Poirier.
Following his restoration, McGregor coached on The Final Fighter reverse Michael Chandler with a combat initially anticipated between them someday in 2023. As an alternative, a damaged toe compelled McGregor to withdraw from their scheduled assembly at UFC 303 this previous June.
There have been rumors swirling that maybe McGregor may combat earlier than the tip of 2024 however UFC CEO Dana White nixed these plans and as a substitute pointed in the direction of 2025 for the Irish famous person to return. With every passing day increasingly doubts are creeping in about whether or not or not McGregor will truly return and Masvidal is aware of with absolute certainty that he received’t be the opponent if that occurs.
“Conor, on no account, is preventing me,” Masvidal mentioned. “He’s backed out of preventing Chandler — poor little Chandler, I don’t know what number of instances he let that dude eat mud. Think about me?
“That man isn’t preventing me. He can’t do sufficient cocaine to f*cking get [jacked] as much as combat me.”
If McGregor stays absent from the UFC, Masvidal wouldn’t thoughts taking his place within the combat in opposition to Chandler, though he sees that as simply certainly one of many choices open to him.
Chandler has been out of motion for almost two years in anticipation of preventing McGregor and Masvidal doubts that ever involves fruition. If Chandler lastly needs to return to motion, Masvidal invitations him to a combat the place he ought to know with no shadow of a doubt that the opponent will present up.
“That wouldn’t be a foul combat to get my ft moist once more with MMA,” Masvidal mentioned about preventing Chandler. “Sort of an introductory course to MMA. I wouldn’t thoughts that combat. However there’s quite a lot of fights that I might take. I used to be simply throwing that one on the market.
“You may’t sit in silence without end. Let’s go. You wish to throw down with some of the f*cking electrifying motherf*ckers that ever touched the game? Let’s f*cking go.”
