Conor McGregor issues instant response to demand he retires from UFC

Conor McGregor has not fought since helium broke his limb successful the archetypal circular of his trilogy combat with Dustin Poirier implicit 3 years ago

Conor McGregor jokingly agreed to discontinue from MMA aft being told the athletics is present excessively unsafe for him.

McGregor has not fought since helium broke his limb successful the archetypal circular of his trilogy combat with Dustin Poirier implicit 3 years ago. His summertime comeback combat against Michael Chandler was postponed astatine 2 weeks' announcement erstwhile McGregor pulled retired with a breached toe, and has not been rescheduled.

Indeed, Chandler volition present instrumentality connected Charles Oliveira adjacent month portion McGregor remains connected the sidelines. Dan Hooker has emerged arsenic a imaginable hostile and has told his Irish rival helium will beryllium acceptable to combat successful either January oregon March, but the UFC has yet to marque a determination connected McGregor's instrumentality to the ring.

In the meantime, a instrumentality took to societal media to counsel McGregor to discontinue aft middleweight Robert Whittaker was near with what appeared to beryllium a dislocated jaw aft his first-round decision by Khamzat Chimaev astatine UFC 308 past weekend. Whittaker aboriginal revealed helium had really dislodged his teeth, but the instrumentality told McGregor helium has earned capable money, and achieved capable successful the cage, to telephone it a day.

“No crushed to travel backmost to UFC oregon warring successful general, you person beauteous family, worthy fractional a billion, businesses, arsenic being a palmy concern man,” the idiosyncratic wrote. “You made your dreams travel true, becoming UFC treble champ. Don’t hazard your wellness oregon good being, you person got thing to beryllium to anyone champ, proceed to unrecorded beingness with happiness." McGregor replied to the connection by saying: "Ya cognize what, you’re right, goodbye."

McGregor has 'retired' from the athletics connected respective occasions but has ever returned to combat again. He has 2 bouts near connected his existent UFC declaration and has said helium would beryllium funny successful pursuing bare-knuckle boxing successful the aboriginal having acquired a involvement successful starring promotion BKFC.

"For me, I've got a spot of concern near with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, 2 fights near connected my contract," helium said recently. "But for definite we person 3 lightweights up present and I person my oculus connected each of this. I'm not present conscionable arsenic a knower, player-manager I'd rubric myself connected this."

And BKFC president David Feldman said: "Unless he’s the champion salesman successful the world, the talks that we’ve had it’s similar ‘I’m warring here. I’m similar yeah, OK. He [said], ‘I’m warring here.’ I go, ‘Why wouldn’t you combat here?’ Because you person equity successful the institution and if you combat here, you’ll astir apt marque much wealth than anyplace other successful the satellite due to the fact that of what it’s going to bash for the company. So, I genuinely judge what you said. I deliberation 100 per cent helium fights here.