Conor McGregor was sensationally referred to as out by UFC rival Michael Chandler throughout an episode of WWE Raw on Monday.
The former Bellator Lightweight Champion was at ringside on the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and was handed the microphone mid-way by way of the present. Chandler stood up and bellowed on the crowd, branding himself “the most entertaining UFC fighter on the planet”.
He then turned his consideration to “a man from Ireland”, asserting: “He’s been making me wait for way too long… Conor McGregor! Get your candy-a** back to the Octagon! We got some unfinished business.”
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Chandler, 37, and McGregor, 35, have been tipped to face one another for a while, notably since teaching in opposition to each other on The Ultimate Fighter 31 in early 2023. On New Year’s Eve, McGregor introduced he’d be dealing with Chandler in June, however UFC chief Dana White denied {that a} combat had been agreed.
Both fighters have inactive for some time, with McGregor’s final match coming in 2021 and Chandler’s coming in 2022. On each events, they had been defeated by Dustin Poirier.
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The Notorious’ combating profession appears useless within the water, with UFC showing reluctant to guide him following his nasty leg break in opposition to Poirier. In the previous three years he is targeted on a number of outdoors ventures, together with launching his new Forged Irish stout model.
He’s additionally dabbled in appearing, and is about to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in a remake of the 1989 movie Road House. McGregor has additionally been linked with a transfer to WWE, and the very fact the wrestling firm had been completely happy for Chandler to name McGregor out on their present suggests they could have already got a working relationship with the Irishman.