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Michael Chandler was certainly paying attention Tuesday night as Dana White gave his latest update on the return of Conor McGregor.
Following the first episode of Contender Series, White spoke at the post-event press conference and said that McGregor still wants to fight, but the former two-division champ’s return will be delayed until 2025 — to which McGregor responded that he wants to compete in December.
Chandler seems to have taken White’s words as a potential nail in the coffin in regards to a rebooking with McGregor, and then fired a shot McGregor’s way.
“Ah conor, the sport will move on and thrive without you,” Chandler wrote on Twitter. “Put to bed. Laid to rest. Soon a distant memory. You’ve vastly overestimated your importance inside of this game for almost a decade. Godspeed.”
Both men are looking to return from lengthy layoffs. McGregor hasn’t competed since suffering a horrific leg injury in his first-round TKO loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021, while Chandler also hasn’t competed since getting stopped by Poirier at UFC 281 in November 2022.
- Mike Heck
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