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Conor McGregor has said he’s in discussions to return to UFC, either on the White House event in June or sometime within the Summer.
“I’m in negotiations with the [UFC] concerning the bout. Either the White House or thereabouts. Sometime within the Summer, McGregor will return,” he told Lily Rayne in an interview posted to Instagram.
The White House event is attributable to be hosted on the South Lawn of the President’s residence on June 14, with no bouts currently announced. Jon Jones is one other to have said recently that he’s in negotiations to fight on the cardboard.
McGregor is probably UFC’s most recognizable face having taken MMA by storm throughout the 2010s. McGregor went undefeated in his first seven fights after debuting in UFC in December 2012, and further went on to win the Featherweight and Lightweight titles to turn into double champion.
In 2016 he suffered his first loss to Nate Diaz, but had turn into popular enough to make hundreds of thousands in a special boxing attraction against Floyd Mayweather Jr., getting beaten by TKO in round seven, in 2017.
He has fought just 4 times since in UFC since then, losing three and winning one, including a submission defeat to Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2018. He has not fought since breaking his ankle against Dustin Poirier in 2021, having had his initial return bout against Michael Chandler in June 2024 cancelled.