Conor McGregor tells Michael Chandler 'wait and shut your mouth' ahead of fight
Conor McGregor told Michael Chandler to "sit down and wait and shut your mouth" as the pair's fight talks grow closer to a final date being made.
Chandler and McGregor coached opposite one another on this summer's season of The Ultimate Fighter, and were tentatively due to fight in December. But with UFC 296 now full and the Irishman's drug testing status unclear, the bout is likely to be pushed back to next year.
The Irishman confirmed on Thursday that he has "sent his stuff" to the UFC's Senior Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance Jeff Novitsky, which could move the process of getting him back in the USADA pool along. Fighters in the promotion are required to spend six months in the randomised testing pool and return two negative fights before they may fight.
And speaking exclusively with Mirror Fighting last week at the launch of his Forged Irish Stout at Jack's Bar in London, McGregor insisted that his comeback "has to be" against Chandler, before goading his rival by telling him "Chandler, sit down and wait and shut your mouth, yeah? The Mac will be here soon.”
He also declared that his comeback was "imminent," and said he was still holding out some degree of hope that they could somehow fight in December. However, that seems increasingly unlikely and Chandler has since said that he feels UFC 300 next April is a more reasonable timeframe.
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“My heart of hearts says the biggest fight we’ve seen in a very long time has to go down on the biggest card that the UFC is going to put together since UFC 200, since UFC 100,” Chandler said on The MMA Hour this week. “My heart of hearts, my gut says we might be waiting until UFC 300. Good thing I’ve got a lot of things to keep my busy, and I get an opportunity to train for Conor for a very long time.
"He’s got more money than he can probably spend, so that urgency for him to fight may not be there, necessarily, so it’s probably got to be right. He needs to feel 100 percent right. ... He’s training, looking like he’s training, looking like he’s doing what everybody accuses him of - partying too much.
"But he’s also out there training as well. It would all be speculation at this point, but the guy is coming off a gruesome injury. This is not an easy injury, and shame on anybody who says he should be back by now. The dude snapped his leg in half. We’ll see. I’m looking forward to that fight. I believe the fight is happening. I might be absolutely crushed if it doesn’t."
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