Corridor of Fame star and promotional color-commenator, Daniel Cormier has urged Michael Chandler to maneuver on from a failed UFC 303 combat with Conor McGregor this month – claiming he expects the Dubliner to now retire definitively from blended martial arts.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight champion underneath the banner of the promotion, has been sidelined for the final three years – after fracturing his left tibia and fibula in a primary spherical physician’s stoppage TKO loss to common-foe, Dustin Poirier.
And now forced from a UFC 303 return during International Fight Week later this month, McGregor has been struck with an undisclosed damage – and while it has been described as not “extreme”, the veteran remains to be anticipated to be out of motion for no less than two months.
Seeing himself scratched from the UFC 303 headliner because of this, Chandler will watch on as undisputed mild heavyweight kingpin, Alex Pereira drafts into a main event fight on just two weeks notice – in a rematch in opposition to former champion, Jiri Prochazka.
Michael Chandler urged to maneuver on from Conor McGregor combat
With hypothesis rife concerning the fast combating way forward for McGregor – whom UFC CEO, Dana White elected against discussing in the aftermath of his exit from the pay-per-view card, Chandler has been urged to chase different fights by Cormier, with a view to snap his virtually two-year hiatus.
“He’s (Michael Chandler) bought some issues to weigh going ahead as a result of I don’t know that he ought to wait anymore,” Daniel Cormier stated on his YouTube channel. “I feel it’s time to maneuver off of this, and I imagine that the overwhelming sentiment is that [Conor McGregor] is finished.”
“I assumed Conor McGregor was going to come back again as a result of to me, Conor McGregor’s a fighter,” Cormier defined. “I do know, skill-for-skill, the Conor McGregor of 2015 isn’t the identical man. However I assumed that the star was nonetheless the identical. I simply don’t know that he needs to combat. Particularly proper now.”
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