Conor McGregor insists his preventing profession isn’t over whilst fan sentiment continues to show in opposition to him.
A minimum of that’s in response to the response to McGregor’s newest declare that he’ll solely return to preventing if he’s booked for a stadium occasion and that he nonetheless has “unfinished enterprise” with longtime rival Michael Chandler.
In response to a clip from WWE’s annual WrestleMania spectacle, which happened at 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas this previous weekend, McGregor tweeted “I’ll solely come again to a stadium” earlier than later reigniting the flames of a possible Chandler combat. The 2 have been tied to a possible matchup for years, with Chandler repeatedly calling McGregor out, teaching reverse McGregor on The Final Fighter 31, after which having a scheduled combat fall by at UFC 303 this previous June attributable to a McGregor damage.
McGregor has not fought since breaking his leg in a combat in opposition to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. His return has been difficult by damage, enterprise and leisure ventures, political aspirations in his native Eire, and quite a few authorized points together with being discovered chargeable for sexual assault this previous November in relation to an incident that occurred in Dublin in 2018.
Suffice to say, followers aren’t precisely champing on the bit for the previous two-division UFC champion’s subsequent combat (if it ever occurs). Try among the finest reactions from the group beneath.
