Conor McGregor sent contract demand as Michael Chandler UFC raises suspicions

Michael Chandler is inactive hopeless to combat Conor McGregor and revealed his existent feelings astir their combat falling through

Michael Chandler suspects Conor McGregor volition instrumentality to the UFC successful the aboriginal and is demanding the adjacent clip helium signs a declaration to combat him that the bout goes ahead.

The 38-year-old has a batch of atrocious humor with the erstwhile lightweight and featherweight champion, coaching other the 'Notorious' 1 connected the 31st play of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) past year. During the season, McGregor headed a clump of up and coming prospects from the determination circuit, portion Chandler coached a roster afloat of combatants who had antecedently featured successful the promotion who had since been cut.

Team Chandler's Brad Katona, Kurt Holobaugh, and Cody Gibson ended up winning the amusement and earning respective UFC contracts, and combat fans expected to spot the Irishman instrumentality connected 'Iron' Michael successful the aftermath fixed the atrocious humor which had occurred during filming - which famously culminated successful McGregor shoving his rival successful the look earlier astir coming to blows.

Unfortunately, McGregor hadn't entered USADA's strict investigating excavation successful clip to springiness the amusement the expansive finale it deserved, but Dana White, Hunter Campbell and Sean Shelby yet announced that the 2 would conscionable successful the Octagon travel June 30, 2024 to header UFC 303 to headdress disconnected International Fight Week.

However, combat fans were near disappointed erstwhile McGregor pulled retired of the bout successful its build-up, citing a breached pinky-toe arsenic a bully capable crushed for the absence. Chandler, of course, took rather the clip distant from the Octagon to hole and reserve himself for McGregor's comeback - lone to beryllium fto down last-minute by his foe.

And erstwhile asked connected however helium felt erstwhile helium was dropped successful it astatine the eleventh hr by McGregor successful an exclusive chat with Mirror Fighting, Chandler explained: "The combat that ne'er happened, what could person been yeah. I would beryllium lying to you if I didn’t accidental that it was a pugnacious moment, but overall, if radical tin look astatine their lives and realise that each the atrocious things that person happened to them usually enactment retired for their bully if they proceed to enactment diligent and enactment hard and believe.

"Every azygous atrocious happening successful my life, each azygous setback successful my life, each azygous nonaccomplishment successful my beingness has ever turned retired to beryllium a bully happening astatine immoderate point. You look backmost and accidental ‘Okay I’m capable to larn X, Y, and Z due to the fact that of it. I was capable to turn arsenic a quality being, I’m successful a large spot’.

"But during the process it was tough. Being the feline connected the different broadside of the headlines with Conor McGregor is pugnacious due to the fact that helium is truthful up and down and says a batch of things and he’s ever successful the media. Then you’ve got the fans weighing in, the media weighing in, it was an absorbing process but I handled it beauteous darn good compared to however astir would have.

"And I grew passim the process." Alex Pereira stepped successful connected abbreviated announcement to prevention the event, besting Jiri Prochazka to enactment himself successful the framework for a light-heavyweight rubric changeable with Jamahal Hill - a combat helium aboriginal went connected to win. However, Chandler believes that a combat with the Irishman could inactive beryllium connected the cards successful the aboriginal - expecting McGregor to marque a comeback successful the aboriginal contempt being absent from the UFC since his 2021 nonaccomplishment to Dustin Poirier, successful which helium broke his leg.

'Iron' Michael explained: "I inactive judge Conor comes backmost astatine immoderate point, and erstwhile helium does, that roadworthy goes done Nashville, Tennessee, and Michael Chandler. We person to decorativeness TUF 31, we person to get a combat poster that really comes to fruition for a fight, we person to get a declaration that really comes to fruition for a combat but either mode if the combat with Conor ne'er happens, I americium wholly contented - I privation him well.

"But I person a sneaky suspicion Conor does not privation to sail disconnected into the sunset the mode helium has close now. He wants to travel backmost and needs to travel backmost for Conor McGregor’s legacy." Chandler's attraction volition beryllium firmly fixed connected aged foe Charles Oliveira travel Saturday evening, arsenic helium faces 'Do Bronx' successful UFC 309's co-main lawsuit astatine Madison Square Garden.

Oliveira and Chandler initially met astatine the precise aforesaid arena successful May 2021 for the vacant lightweight UFC rubric - and the all-American had his dreams "shattered" successful the 2nd circular erstwhile his Brazilian nemesis knocked him retired with a looping near hook. Speaking connected his hostile for Saturday night, Chandler said: "I’m warring a feline that I’m acquainted with, a feline that I’ve already mislaid to, a feline that shattered my dreams.

"So this is simply a cleanable mode to close a incorrect and get immoderate revenge. I respect the heck retired of Charles Oliveira but I’m excited to spell retired determination competing against him and not conscionable vie against him, but bushed him connected Saturday night."

When asked what helium learned from his archetypal nonaccomplishment astatine the hands of Oliveira, Chandler added: "When you’ve got past with a guy, erstwhile you’ve mislaid to a guy. I’d overmuch alternatively beryllium the feline who mislaid the past combat successful a rematch than the feline who won. I consciousness similar each the unit is connected him to bushed maine again.

"And the quality betwixt helium and I is that I lone had 2 and a fractional minutes of cage clip - 2 and a fractional minutes of UFC Octagon clip - astatine the clip successful which I fought Charles Oliveira. I knocked retired Dan Hooker aft 2 and a fractional minutes, got thrust into a caller grooming campy for a May combat aft warring successful precocious January.

"So I didn’t person a batch of clip to grow, didn’t person a batch of clip to larn who I was and proceed to physique wrong of the UFC. So much patient, much calculated, inactive violent, inactive accelerated action. I’m gonna beryllium speedy but not successful a hurry, I’m gonna beryllium accelerated but not successful a rush, and I’m gonna systematically and surgically interruption this antheral down until helium looks for the exit sign, and I get my manus raised by a ascendant finish.”

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