As Jorge Masvidal plots his comeback to the UFC, he’s bought a number of concepts on potential opponents. Don’t anticipate Conor McGregor to be one in every 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 known 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 a number 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 Combating 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 assume so. I hope he proves me incorrect however I don’t assume so.”
McGregor has been teasing his comeback for effectively over a 12 months already after he healed up from a devastating damaged leg suffered in his trilogy combat towards 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 pressured McGregor to withdraw from their scheduled assembly at UFC 303 this previous June.
There have been rumors swirling that maybe McGregor might combat earlier than the top of 2024 however UFC CEO Dana White nixed these plans and as an alternative pointed in direction of 2025 for the Irish celebrity 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 gained’t be the opponent if that occurs.
“Conor, by no means, 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 towards Chandler, though he sees that as simply one in every of many choices open to him.
Chandler has been out of motion for practically 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 and not using a 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. “Form of an introductory course to MMA. I wouldn’t thoughts that combat. However there’s a number of fights that I might take. I used to be simply throwing that one on the market.
“You may’t sit in silence perpetually. Let’s go. You need to throw down with one of the crucial f*cking electrifying motherf*ckers that ever touched the game? Let’s f*cking go.”