Conor McGregor desires in on the UFC’s plans to invade the White Home.
Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump introduced plans to host a one-of-a-kind UFC occasion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that includes a few of the very best combined martial artists of all time, together with Jon Jones and ‘The Infamous’ Conor McGregor.
“I’m going dwelling,” McGregor advised The Schmo whereas discussing rumors of his return at subsequent 12 months’s White Home card. “I’m going to get the pinnacle down. I’m going to relaxation. They’re testing me. I’m within the pool. I says, ‘Go inform him, man. I assumed that’s what the swimming pools are for — leaping out and in of.’ However I’m again within the pool. So, prepare and keep prepared, ’trigger injury can be executed.”
It’s actually not the primary time McGregor has teased a possible return to the Octagon. We spent the higher a part of two years ready for him to make his “biggest comeback in fight sports activities historical past” towards Michael Chandler, just for him to tug out of the struggle because of a damaged pinky toe.
It’s been greater than 4 years since Conor McGregor has fought within the UFC
McGregor has not competed contained in the Octagon since struggling a damaged leg within the first spherical of his trilogy struggle towards Dustin Poirier at UFC 264.
The Infamous’ has misplaced three of his final 4 beneath the UFC banner, together with back-to-back losses towards ‘The Diamond’ and getting choked out by bitter rival Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018. His solely win in practically a decade got here towards a past-his-prime Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone.
However regardless of an absence of wins, exercise, and a slew of unhealthy press, McGregor stays one of many greatest names within the sport. That and his shut friendship with Trump make him an unsurprising choose for the promotion’s history-making Battle Evening in D.C.
