Conor McGregor vents frustration at delay to UFC comeback announcement

06 February 2024 , 10:39

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Conor McGregor vents frustration at delay to UFC comeback announcement

Conor McGregor has pleaded with the UFC to organise a date for his comeback fight against Michael Chandler.

Former two-weight world champion McGregor hasn't fought in over two and a half years but his return against Chandler was announced over a year ago. The pair coached season 31 of the UFC's reality TV show 'The Ultimate Fighter' against each other and have since been waiting for their fight date.

No event or date has yet been announced for the mega-fight and McGregor took to Instagram to write: "Get this f****ng date set." McGregor announced on New Year's eve that he would be fighting Chandler on June 29 to headline the promotion's International Fight Week but UFC boss Dana White recently shut down these claims.

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"When Conor is ready to fight, you know we’ll announce it. That’s what we’ll do," White said. McGregor moved one step closer to his octagon return last month by submitting his first drug test samples as part of the UFC's new anti-doping programme, Drug Free Sport, that was implemented at the beginning of this year.

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McGregor's fight against Chandler was expected to take place at UFC 296 last December, but the Irishman's absence from the USADA drug-testing made him ineligible to compete. Chandler hasn't fought in over a year and wants to take his frustrations out on McGregor by sending him into retirement when they finally meet in the cage.

"I finish Conor within the first two rounds and after that, probably end his career,” Chandler said on his YouTube channel. “There’s just so much more than what people think about on the surface level. I want battlegrounds of epic proportions, I want to stand in the cage with that man, I want to break that man’s will, I want to break his jaw.

"The weight class does not matter, we are two guys that weigh the same. The size of us is very similar, so it doesn't matter whether we are cutting down because we are the same weight. I want to separate him from consciousness, completely flatline him inside the octagon, and then we say farewell to the sport’s biggest star. Then we can go about our merry way."

Harry Davies