UFC legend Chael Sonnen is starting to consider Conor McGregor won’t ever make his return to the octagon.
The previous two-weight world champion has maintained for the past three years that he’s working towards one other fight, nevertheless it has yet to materialise. He suffered a gruesome broken leg during his trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier in the summertime of 2021, and has been unable to secure a date for a fight since.
But he has also never stopped having fun with his life, and is infamous for partying into the early hours of the morning. And now that he’s one in every of MMA’s richest men, Sonnen believes he won’t ever return to the fight game.
Chael Sonnen claims it was ‘silly’ to expect Conor McGregor comeback
Former world title challenger Chael Sonnen claims that with every passing day, he feels expecting a Conor McGregor comeback becomes more ‘silly’. Speaking on his show Good Guy/Bad Guy with Daniel Cormier on ESPN, he noted that the Irishman seems more concerned with other endeavors.
“I don’t know what to make of Conor,” he noted. “We’re looking silly at this point by continuing to act as if he’s going to come back back, the reality is, the night he went down broken in two against Dustin Poirier, it was unlikely he was going to return.
“When he got other opportunities. Selling the whiskey brand, and finding himself in movies with Jake Gyllenhaal, it was unlikely that Conor was going to return.”
McGregor had inked a return to motion for this summer, with a date booked in June for him to face Michael Chandler. Tickets had even been sold and gate records broken, but days before the event was to be launched with an unprecedented Dublin press conference he was injured.
It emerged that he had suffered a broken toe, and that he could be unable to compete consequently. But Sonnen doesn’t fancy that excuse, adding: “He got a stubbed pinky toe, that will or might not be broken and will or may not belong to him.
“When he walked away from a press conference in his hometown. And didn’t show as much as UFC 303, it was unlikely. Even baseball tells you three strikes, you’re out. In some unspecified time in the future, all of us have to simply accept this and move on.”
Conor McGregor heads to America for training ahead of potential return to motion
In recent days, McGregor has been spotted around America engaging in numerous his business ventures. He was ringside at a BKFC event, where he is a component owner, and he has been spotted at multiple pubs pouring pints of his Forged Stout.
But he has also been training, sharing footage of himself sparring with boxing prospect Sean O’Bradaigh who’s one in every of the highest ranked light-heavyweights in America. And UFC boss Dana White seemed positive about his probabilities, telling media yesterday that he’s desirous to fight again soon.
“Every time Conor is prepared he comes back,” White told reporters and fans at a Q&A session in Dublin yesterday. “He hit me up last night when he heard that I used to be here and he’s in Recent York at once and he’s training.”
Conor McGregor’s opponent books latest fight as comeback takes one other hit
It appeared that disaster was striking for McGregor last week when it was announced that his long-time rival Michael Chandler could be moving on from their unscheduled bout. The pair signed as much as fight one another as way back as February of last 12 months, with the American last fighting almost two years ago.
When their fight was repeatedly pushed back, Chandler stuck with the plan until eventually deciding to go one other direction. He now faces Charles Oliveira within the co-main event of UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden in November, almost two years to the day since his last outing.
Now, McGregor’s next opponent is undecided. Nevertheless, Chandler has insisted that he continues to be concerned with the matchup, and is just betting on himself to beat the Brazilian in a rematch that might also put him back among the many top contenders at lightweight.
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