As Jorge Masvidal plots his comeback to the UFC, he’s received loads of concepts on potential opponents. Don’t anticipate Conor McGregor to be certainly one of them.
To be clear, that’s not from an absence of curiosity on Masvidal’s facet. 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 loads of prospects for his first battle 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 combating? I don’t suppose so. I hope he proves me improper 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 battle towards Masvidal’s longtime teammate and good friend, Dustin Poirier.
Following his restoration, McGregor coached on The Final Fighter reverse Michael Chandler with a battle 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 might battle earlier than the tip of 2024 however UFC CEO Dana White nixed these plans and as a substitute pointed in direction of 2025 for the Irish celebrity to return. With every passing day increasingly more 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, by no means, is combating me,” Masvidal stated. “He’s backed out of combating 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 combating me. He can’t do sufficient cocaine to f*cking get [jacked] as much as battle me.”
If McGregor stays absent from the UFC, Masvidal wouldn’t thoughts taking his place within the battle towards Chandler, though he sees that as simply certainly one of many choices open to him.
Chandler has been out of motion for practically two years in anticipation of combating McGregor and Masvidal doubts that ever involves fruition. If Chandler lastly desires to return to motion, Masvidal invitations him to a battle the place he ought to know with no shadow of a doubt that the opponent will present up.
“That wouldn’t be a nasty battle to get my toes moist once more with MMA,” Masvidal stated about combating Chandler. “Form of an introductory course to MMA. I wouldn’t thoughts that battle. However there’s loads of fights that I’d take. I used to be simply throwing that one on the market.
“You possibly can’t sit in silence eternally. 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.”
