Corridor of Fame star and promotional color-commenator, Daniel Cormier has urged Michael Chandler to maneuver on from a failed UFC 303 struggle with Conor McGregor this month – claiming he expects the Dubliner to now retire definitively from blended martial arts.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight champion underneath the banner of the promotion, has been sidelined for the final three years – after fracturing his left tibia and fibula in a primary spherical physician’s stoppage TKO loss to common-foe, Dustin Poirier.
And now pressured from a UFC 303 return throughout Worldwide Struggle Week later this month, McGregor has been struck with an undisclosed damage – and while it has been described as not “extreme”, the veteran remains to be anticipated to be out of motion for a minimum of two months.
Seeing himself scratched from the UFC 303 headliner consequently, Chandler will watch on as undisputed gentle heavyweight kingpin, Alex Pereira drafts right into a important occasion struggle on simply two weeks discover – in a rematch in opposition to former champion, Jiri Prochazka.
Michael Chandler urged to maneuver on from Conor McGregor struggle
With hypothesis rife concerning the fast preventing way forward for McGregor – whom UFC CEO, Dana White elected in opposition to discussing within the aftermath of his exit from the pay-per-view card, Chandler has been urged to chase different fights by Cormier, with the intention to snap his nearly two-year hiatus.
“He’s (Michael Chandler) acquired some issues to weigh going ahead as a result of I don’t know that he ought to wait anymore,” Daniel Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “I believe it’s time to maneuver off of this, and I imagine that the overwhelming sentiment is that [Conor McGregor] is finished.”
“I assumed Conor McGregor was going to come back again as a result of to me, Conor McGregor’s a fighter,” Cormier defined. “I do know, skill-for-skill, the Conor McGregor of 2015 isn’t the identical man. However I assumed that the star was nonetheless the identical. I simply don’t know that he desires to struggle. Particularly proper now.”
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