Conor McGregor continues to be on the comeback path.
This previous Saturday, McGregor was alleged to struggle Michael Chandler in the principle occasion of UFC 303, however the bout was faraway from the cardboard as a consequence of McGregor struggling a toe damage. Since then, each fighters have been lively on social media discussing their future plans and McGregor offered an replace Monday, hinting at a “new date.”
“Actual acknowledge actual,” McGregor wrote. “Excited to safe my new date.”
In his remark, McGregor gave credit score to mild heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, who stepped up on brief discover alongside Jiri Prochazka and went on to defeat Prochazka with an unbelievable head kick knockout within the new UFC 303 principal occasion. Throughout struggle week, Pereira defended McGregor’s resolution to drag out of the bout.
When McGregor introduced the rationale for his withdrawal from the June 29 pay-per-view, he didn’t give a timetable for his return, later commenting that he won’t ever struggle once more except he’s one hundred pc wholesome. Chandler has mentioned on a number of events that he’ll watch for the McGregor struggle, a bout that he has been pursuing for years and has been intently tied to since a minimum of mid-2023 when he and McGregor served as opposing coaches on The Final Fighter 31.
Previous to McGregor’s most up-to-date tweets, Chandler claimed that he had been supplied a bout with light-weight champion Islam Makhachev for October, however could be prepared to face McGregor at UFC 306 on Sept. 14 at Sphere in Las Vegas.
Makhachev shut down Chandler’s declare in brutal style, calling the three-time Bellator champion “unreliable” and including that if the McGregor matchup comes round once more “you’ll run away.”
Chandler additionally caught a shot from Dustin Poirier when he tried to make mild of Makhachev passing on a rematch with “The Diamond.” Makhachev defeated Poirier at UFC 302 and Poirier has made it unclear whether or not he plans to struggle once more.
He had preventing phrases for Chandler although.
“Choked your ass out, and also you haven’t fought since,” Poirier wrote.
Poirier is the newest opponent for each Chandler and McGregor. He submitted Chandler at UFC 281 in November 2022, and beat McGregor at UFC 264 in July 2021 when McGregor suffered a damaged leg of their struggle. That damage has performed a serious half in McGregor being sidelined for the previous three years.
