Conor McGregor is giving fans some insight — and throwing shade — to his possible next opponent.
“It is a no name up next for me possibly, folks,” McGregor wrote on X, adding that “I ACCEPT. Send the contract, lads.”
He previously shared last week that he’d “been offered an opponent and a date” which he “accepted” but quickly deleted the statement from social media.
It has been some time since McGregor stepped into the octagon. His last match was UFC 257 in 2021, where he lost to Dustin Poirier.
“It’s heartbreaking,” McGregor said to reporters after the match. “It’s hard to take. The best highs and the bottom lows on this game.”
“My leg is totally dead,” he added. “Despite the fact that I felt like I used to be checking them, it was just sinking into the muscle within the front of the leg, and it was badly compromised. It was like an American football in my suit on the minute, so it’s what it’s.”
While he said the defeat was a “bitter pill to swallow,” he praised Poirier’s “phenomenal performance” which he’ll use as a fuel to “adopt a distinct approach for the trilogy.”
“It wasn’t my night. It wasn’t a terrific night. Again, no excuses. Hats off,” he told reporters. “[I’ll] regroup and pick myself up. I stay up for going back now and seeing the youngsters and just taking the licks.”
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On the time, Poirier shared that he could be fascinated with a rematch with McGregor.
“I feel like I’ve done all of it, except, I feel like I am unable to say I walked away, and I’m the champ, ,” he said per People. “I need to be the champ. Whenever you’re the champ, you are the champ ceaselessly, and I need to be the champ. But yeah, I’ve seen the best of the highs and the bottom of the lows on this sport.”
“Fighting is just something I do at this point in my profession, but I honor this. I do not take this frivolously, man,” Poirier added. “I actually respect the chance, and that is why that is so near my heart.”
McGregor was scheduled for a fight in 2024 with Michael Chandler at UFC 303 but it surely was canceled as a consequence of him injuring his toe.