It’s been a wild few weeks for Conor McGregor and the UFC 303 pay-per-view he was originally scheduled to headline alongside veteran fighter Michael Chandler. The fight was on, then it was off, then it was maybe on again. Now it’s officially off, at least McGregor’s portion of it.
UFC President Dana White revealed the larger event will go on as planned with Alex Pereira and Jirí Procházka now main eventing and McGregor and Chandler happening at some point in the future. McGregor echoed those sentiments in his own statement he released yesterday. The legendary MMA star who recently played a key support in the Road House remake said he suffered an injury prior to the press conference but is “confident” he’ll be back.
Many in the media have already started looking ahead at potential replacement dates with The Sun eyeing a possible fight in late Summer and prominent fighting journalist Ariel Helwani saying he’s hoping for late August/ early Fall. If you look at social media, however, fans are a whole lot less confident. In fact, once the rumors of a possible cancellation started coming out, many fans were almost immediately pessimistic.
After confirmation the fight was over, many took to social media to predict we’ll never see McGregor get in the ring again. Here’s a sample tweet with more than a thousand likes..
. Conor McGregor has won just a single MMA fight in the last seven-and-a-half years. It's over.
Just stop it. pic.twitter.
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