Michael Chandler intends to finish Conor McGregor’s profession

Michael Chandler thinks there’s a robust likelihood Conor McGregor’s ultimate act in MMA will come at UFC 303.

After greater than a yr of ready, Chandler’s (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) dream struggle with McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) lastly has a date and site. He’ll welcome essentially the most well-known fighter within the sport’s historical past again to the octagon within the welterweight predominant occasion of the June 29 card at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+).

Though many individuals solid doubt that McGregor would compete once more after struggling a critical damaged leg in his July 2021 trilogy-bout loss to Dustin Poirier, the struggle is now official. “The Infamous” will make his extremely anticipated comeback in opposition to former three-time Bellator champ Chandler, who intends on making the Irishman pay for the lengthy wait.

Chandler thinks the matchup goes to be one of many greatest in UFC historical past, and it’s on that platform the place he intends to ship his strongest message and finish McGregor’s profession.

“That is going to be the largest struggle of the final 5 years,” Chandler stated in a current Instagram Q&A. “This would be the greatest struggle since Conor vs. Khabib (Nurmagomedov). I don’t say that as a result of Conor’s opponent is simply as large as Khabib, who was the largest Muslim athlete on the planet, undefeated, championship struggle. However there’s one thing particular about this one. On June 29, you need to purchase the pay-per-view, and you need to purchase the pay-per-view as a result of there’s an opportunity that is the best comeback in fight sports activities historical past by the game’s greatest star. That’s why you need to purchase the pay-per-view.

“Or the opposite choice, the extra possible choice, is I completely molly wop this dude and put a beatdown of biblical proportions on him, and that is the final time you ever see Conor McGregor compete contained in the octagon. So both means, you need to tune in on June 29. UFC 303 goes to be the most-viewed and the largest pay-per-view that we’ve got ever seen for a mess of causes.”

Because the construct towards the struggle with McGregor first started with the pair serving as coaches on Season 31 of “The Final Fighter” actuality sequence, Chandler has been constant in his prediction. He has repeatedly acknowledged that he thinks he places McGregor away within the second spherical of the five-round struggle.

It’s one factor to consider the struggle when it’s not but set, although. Now that he has a date and site, Chandler’s visions are solely getting stronger, and carry a extra ferocious zest.

“My Mystic Mike prediction is I end him within the second spherical,” Chandler stated. “Get him on his heels within the first spherical, make him second-guess himself within the first spherical, make him understand, ‘Dang, I in all probability ought to have simply stayed wealthy and stayed out of the struggle sport.’ And I’ll begin planting these seeds of doubts within the first spherical. By the tip of the primary spherical he’ll return to his bench and return to his nook huffing and puffing and understand that he’s about to fulfill his demise.

“He’s going to start out on the lookout for the exit indicators and I’m going to usher him proper to it. I’d even maintain his hand on the way in which to the exit signal. I’d even give him a bit of faucet on the tush on the way in which outdoors of the exit indicators. That’s the plan. Within the second spherical: KO, TKO or I take his again, and I completely steal his soul via his esophagus.”

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