Matchroom Boxing promoter, Eddie Hearn has some recommendation for UFC CEO, Dana White – within the type of luring former two-weight champion, Conor McGregor again to the Octagon later this yr, by paying the Dubliner “no matter it prices” to compete once more.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight titleholder beneath the promotion’s banner, has been sidelined since he fractured his left tibia and fibula in a gap spherical physician’s stoppage TKO loss to Dustin Poirier again in 2021.
And linked with a comeback because the starting of final yr, McGregor, who served as an opposing coach on The Final Fighter 31 in opposition to Michael Chandler, has been backed to struggle the previous Bellator MMA light-weight kingpin in his return.
Showing destined to be denied a summer season comeback to the UFC by promotional chief, White, McGregor has confused his want to make a return time and time once more in current months – nevertheless, apparently to no avail.
Dana White urged to cough up for Conor McGregor comeback
And so far as the above-mentioned British promoter, Hearn is anxious, McGregor ought to be paid “no matter it prices” by White in an effort to bag his combating return this yr contained in the Octagon.
“If it was me – and it’s not me, and Dana (White) definitely doesn’t want my recommendation – however I’m brining (Conor) McGregor again, no matter it prices,” Eddie Hearn instructed MMA Combating. “He injects an enthusiasm and a vibrancy into the UFC that nobody else can. There isn’t any one within the sport who could make it occur for the UFC and MMA like Conor McGregor.”
“When he comes again, the press conferences, the construct up, the worth of the enterprise, the scores, the pay-per-view numbers [all increase],” Hearn defined.
With out a victory since 2020, McGregor’s most up-to-date win got here within the type of a primary spherical high-kick and strikes knockout win over Corridor of Fame inductee, Donald Cerrone inside simply 40-seconds on the welterweight restrict.
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