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Will he or won’t he?
That is question surrounding UFC superstar Conor McGregor these days.
McGregor once ruled the roost as the company’s biggest star. But he’s since went off in search of fame and fortune and found himself in a number of legal battles along the way.
The Irish superstar has not stepped foot in the UFC cage in nearly two years. He hasn’t won a UFC fight in nearly 3.5 years.
But his appearance as coach opposite Michael Chandler on the current season of The Ultimate Fighter offered fans some hope that he may be on his way back to the cage.
McGregor, however, still has re-entered into USADA’s anti-doping testing pool. He’ll need to take part in the program for six months before he can actually fight again.
This has led to speculation that McGregor has no actual intention of ever fighting again. But Chandler isn’t as convinced.
“I’m a fighter’s guy, I’m a fighter’s fighter, there’s a reason people love to watch me fight, the reason they tune in,” Chandler told Daniel Cormier. “I think Conor’s coming back. I don’t think he wants to stain his legacy by leading us all down this road of ‘I’m doing The Ultimate Fighter. I’m fighting Michael Chandler. Oh, by the way, never mind. I’m not coming back. Make sure you buy my Irish whiskey’ and all that kind of stuff.
“He’s coming back. Yeah, supposedly, there was a countdown with USADA, six months, and all that other stuff. That’s not for me to choose or decide. People are talking about exemptions, of course, that’s all on the table. All I know is I’m controlling the controllables and I also know that either way, I’m gonna keep on moving forward and I do believe I fight Conor within the next six months. It’s gonna be one of the biggest pay-per-views that we have ever seen, and I’m gonna go out there and knock him out within the first two rounds.”
That sounds more like wishful thinking than anything on Chandler’s part. But you can’t fault him for wanting to will the fight into existence.