Conor McGregor is pushing again towards the narrative that he received’t be returning to the UFC to battle Michael Chandler.
Final week the deadline for McGregor to re-enter the USADA drug testing pool in time to compete on the UFC’s ultimate pay-per-view occasion got here and went with none announcement of the Irish sports activities star’s addition. Whereas there’s nonetheless an opportunity that “The Infamous” is again within the UFC’s obligatory anti-PED program and we’ll see his identify seem within the pattern database quickly, it’s a slim one.
Extra seemingly: the UFC will grant McGregor an exemption from the six month testing requirement and simply schedule him for an enormous occasion in November or December. They’re being terrible quiet about the entire state of affairs, although, resulting in loads of hypothesis that the extraordinarily wealthy entrepreneur could not really battle in 2023.
McGregor tweeted after which deleted a message to his followers and haters on his return.
“Placey Mcplacerson I’m within the place. Ya’s’ll shut up and wait,” he wrote on Twitter. “Silence! A roar from the throne. Persistence, peasants. Convey Correct Twelve, Solid Irish Stout, Tidl Sport. Convey me Gold and Plunder.”
It’s the type of defiant response we’ve come to anticipate from Conor McGregor over the previous a number of months. Upon the debut of his new Netflix documentary sequence ‘McGregor Eternally,’ Conor made some fairly huge claims about his eventual comeback.
“Not solely only a return … the best return in fight sports activities,” McGregor mentioned in an unique interview launched by the UFC. “That is going to be, you already know, I’m gonna kick this man [Chandler] within the head. He’s simply tailor made for being kicked far and wide, and that’s what I’m aiming for.
“I’m aiming to wrap this metal bar across the opponent. And also you’re gonna see a visible of the leg hanging off and you then’re going to see a visible of the pinnacle hanging off. So I’m excited for it and motivated for it. Regular, making my method in direction of it.”
McGregor hasn’t fought since breaking his leg badly in a 2021 battle towards Dustin Poirier. It’s the type of damage that ends careers, and “The Infamous” has been meticulous within the remedy and rehabilitation of the compromised limb. It’s what prompted him to quietly take away himself from the USADA testing pool within the first place, a transfer we hadn’t seen from some other UFC athlete earlier than him.
Might McGregor nonetheless be too injured to compete in 2023? Might he nonetheless be receiving USADA-prohibited therapies in his quest to get again to 100%? We’ve got no stable particulars to go on, simply the shortage of motion on his USADA participation and the shortage of a date for when he’ll battle Michael Chandler.
McGregor has promised an announcement someday throughout the run of The Final Fighter on ESPN, which runs till August fifteenth. For now, us peasants should be affected person, simply as King Conor has demanded.
