Michael Chandler was getting ready for the most important combat of his profession simply a few weeks in the past. The three-time Bellator light-weight champion was scheduled to face former two-division UFC titleholder Conor McGregor within the UFC 303 essential occasion on June 29. That each one went away when McGregor was pressured out of the combat with an damage.
Regardless of not competing on the combat card, Chandler nonetheless plans to attend the occasion at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas. In a video posted to social media on Tuesday, Chandler acknowledged, “Your phrase is your bond, and in case your phrase is not any good then ultimately you’re no good.”
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“I am nonetheless going to UFC 303 a lot to the shock of the UFC and everybody behind the scenes. It is the UFC X, the UFC Fan Expertise. It is UFC 303: Alex Pereira vs. Jiri Prochazka, and simply six days in the past it was McGregor vs. Chandler. It is my card,” Chandler stated. “It was my card at any time when I signed the bout settlement and signed my identify to a bit of paper that stated I might be at UFC 303. I made a promise. I made a dedication and that dedication nonetheless stands as a result of your phrase is your bond and with out your phrase you’re no good. If you cannot be relied upon, if folks do not imagine that you are going observe by way of with what you say you are going to do – The definition of integrity is doing what you say you are going to do with out fail.”
When McGregor was pressured out of the combat attributable to damage, the combat promotion put collectively a totally new UFC 303 essential occasion. Chandler was pulled from the combat card altogether and a middleweight championship rematch between champion Alex Pereira and former titleholder Jiri Prochazka turned the brand new occasion headliner.
