In Conor McGregor’s home, the apple doesn’t fall removed from the tree.
On Saturday, June 29, the Irish megastar will return to the Octagon for the primary time in practically three years when he squares off with former Bellator champion Michael Chandler within the UFC 303 headliner.
McGregor, in fact, is inarguably the most important identify in combined martial arts historical past, changing into the primary fighter to carry two UFC titles concurrently and subsequently pushing the game into beforehand uncharted territory — to not point out being accountable for eight of the ten highest-grossing pay-per-views in promotional historical past.
Lately, the MMA icon and proud father shared a video of his son, Conor McGregor Jr., incomes his first stripe in BJJ.
“My son @conormcgregorjr getting the primary stripe on his jiu jitsu belt at @sbgireland and the @ufc are already right here with their workforce and large cameras on a scouting mission haha,” McGregor wrote on Instagram.
Conor Jr. was the primary of the Irishman’s 4 kids with longtime fiancee Dee Devlin, having been born in 2017. Two years later they welcomed their daughter Croía adopted by Rian in 2021 and Mack in 2023.
Throughout an look on RTÉ’s The Late Late Present following the start of Conor Jr., ‘Mystic Mac’ stated: “I’m very proud and really blessed on daily basis as a result of the start of my son has made me softer the place I want to melt up. I’m overcome with pleasure and love. I by no means thought I’d be that manner.”
Maybe we’ll someday see Conor McGregor Jr. step contained in the Octagon and proceed the legacy of his legendary father.
Conor McGregor Will go face-to-face with Michael Chandler at Dublin’s 3Arena
Earlier than McGregor goes toe-to-toe with Michael Chandler throughout this 12 months’s Worldwide Combat Week in Las Vegas, he’ll go face-to-face along with his opponent inside Dublin’s iconic 3Arena on Monday, June 3 for a pre-fight press convention.
McGregor has solely fought as soon as contained in the 3Arena — incomes a first-round end in opposition to Diego Brandao in 2013. Nonetheless, it was the positioning of the notorious press occasion forward of his history-making conflict with Jose Aldo.
