

He is significantly more muscular than he was when he broke his leg during a July 10, 2021, fight in Las Vegas at UFC 264 with Dustin Poirier.

Why McGregor has failed to reenter the USADA pool is open to question, and only he can answer that. So while the UFC would love McGregor to fight tonight, the company’s fortunes don’t depend on any one fighter, even one as valuable as McGregor. But the UFC can afford to wait on McGregor, the biggest star in its history by an almost incomprehensible margin, because it’s become a money-making machine. McGregor has denied the allegations, but he won’t have a say in when he fights if something comes of that case.Īny McGregor fight at this point is almost guaranteed to be a huge money-maker for the UFC, for ESPN and certainly for McGregor himself. TMZ published video showing McGregor leading the woman into the bathroom. A woman accused McGregor of sexually assaulting her in a bathroom during Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Miami. Now, of course, it may not be entirely up to him. Plus, McGregor is not likely to want to train through the holidays, so it wouldn’t be a bad guess to predict McGregor may not fight Chandler until sometime in the second quarter or perhaps even in the early third quarter of next year. His fiancee, Dee Devlin, is pregnant with the couple’s fourth child. UFC fighters must be in USADA’s testing pool for six months before they’re able to compete again, meaning sometime in January 2024 is now the earliest McGregor could fight Michael Chandler, whom he’s appeared with on the reality series, “The Ultimate Fighter.”
