After a tease on the finish of 2023, Conor McGregor’s comeback struggle is about.
On Saturday evening, UFC CEO Dana White introduced McGregor will struggle his long-anticipated opponent Michael Chandler in the principle occasion of UFC 303 on June 29 in Las Vegas.
The struggle, which is able to happen at 170 kilos, would be the spotlight of UFC’s annual Worldwide Struggle Week.
On Dec. 31, McGregor, 35, introduced that he could be preventing Chandler this summer time in a video submit on X, but it surely was not official till White’s announcement.
The 2 coached in opposition to every one other on “The Final Fighter” in 2023 and had been anticipated to struggle after the top of the truth present.
McGregor (22-6) hasn’t fought since UFC 264 in July 2021, when he broke his left leg in a struggle in opposition to Dustin Poirier, who he misplaced to in back-to-back fights.
The previous UFC champion has just one UFC win since 2016 and has solely participated in 4 fights since then, excluding his boxing match in opposition to Floyd Mayweather in 2017.
Chandler (23-8) has additionally not seen the octagon for some time, having final fought in a submission loss to Poirier at UFC 281 in November 2022.
McGregor has nonetheless been busy exterior of the cage, together with working with Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal within the remake of the 1989 film “Street Home.”
Gyllenhaal later revealed on the “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon” that McGregor by accident punched him within the face whereas filming at 3 a.m. when McGregor “was speaking to me actually shut.”
“By mistake, he clocked me within the face,” Gyllenhaal defined. “We might do a take [of] pretend preventing, after which we’d go watch the displays to see it again, to see what labored.”
“And he was like, ‘Yeah, that left hook appears good, however then whenever you do it, growth!’ And he hit me by mistake,” he added.
Gyllenhaal additionally admitted he by accident hit McGregor with a automotive door afterward.
