Regardless of revealing plans to compete as quickly as August amid his exit from subsequent weekend’s UFC 303 card throughout Worldwide Battle Week, Conor McGregor’s plans to come back again this 12 months could have already been quashed by Dana White, who confirmed the promotion’s schedule for the annum is already in impact.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight gold holder, was pressured to withdraw from subsequent weekend’s scheduled welterweight battle with Michael Chandler, revealing he suffered a fractured toe simply three weeks earlier than the bout in Las Vegas.
And showing at Bellator Champions Collection 3 tonight in his native Dublin, former duel-weight champion, McGregor revealed he was already working towards a “new date” for his comeback.
“You realize, I’m nonetheless right here rocking away,” Conor McGregor mentioned. “I had a bit lapse of focus and I needed to reschedule the bout, so I’m a bit upset about that. Nevertheless it’s preserving me dialed in, it’s preserving me targeted. I can’t rock round like I’m on the market displaying up, like I’m on the market doing my job. The job isn’t carried out, in order that’s not unhealthy for somebody like me.”
“I’m onwards in the direction of the brand new date, and take my classes discovered, it was a lapse in focus,” Conor McGregor continued. If I used to be any of those different little bums that may’t transfer, that don’t have any footwork they don’t depend on their expertise… then I’d be okay. And I’ve carried out it earlier than, I’ve made the stroll on a mess of occasions beneath these circumstances and given these byums a bonus over me that they don’t even deserve.”
Dana White not sure if Conor McGregor can battle this 12 months
Nevertheless, talking with assembled media following UFC Saudi Arabia tonight, the aforenoted, White claimed that the schedule for the rest of 2024 was already deliberate, calling into query whether or not McGregor might compete as quickly as he desired.
“I don’t know proper now,” Dana White mentioned. “Yeah, our [the UFC’s] schedule is laid out so, we’ll see. I’m not doing something till I do know that Conor (McGregor) is wholesome. It’s not even value speaking about till – you realize, ‘What about September, what about October?’ He’s not prepared so why even speak about that?”
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