“I Was By no means Provided One other Struggle”: Michael Chandler Units It Straight on Conor McGregor Struggle After UFC 303 Cancelation Rumors

Michael Chandler has been ready to struggle Conor McGregor for the final two years. The duo appeared as rival head coaches in final 12 months’s ‘The Final Fighter’ season and was slated to struggle in November final 12 months. Nevertheless, the bout saved getting delayed, with speculations that the struggle would finally fall off.

Dana White ended the speculations for a quick interval along with his announcement on the UFC 300 post-fight press convention that ‘Mac’ will tackle ‘Iron’ at UFC 303 on June 29. However, the cancellation of the UFC 303 press convention solid darkish clouds over the bout once more. Amid all of the speculations, Michael Chandler has no doubts that the struggle will occur on UFC 303.

Michael Chandler has his causes to imagine the struggle continues to be on

Michael Chandler. 38, put his profession nearly on maintain, having final fought two years in the past, ready for McGregor and his personal ‘red-panty evening’. The Missouri native is hopeful concerning the struggle, regardless of the abrupt cancellation of the latest press convention in Dublin, and the next alarm bells that the UFC insiders like Daniel Cormier and Jon Anik have rung. Chandler has religion within the UFC for one easy purpose, they haven’t provided him one other struggle.

“I all the time remained trustworthy in the entire state of affairs. You bought the general public notion after which you will have the precise folks within the trenches, proper? The blokes on the cellphone name with Dana and Hunter, administration, and the fellows behind the closed doorways having the conversations. And I used to be getting sufficient reassurance that this was the path to proceed to comply with. I used to be by no means provided one other struggle,” Chandler instructed Ryan Clark in an interview.

Chandler reminded Clark if the UFC wished him to maneuver on, it might have provided him one other struggle (and a good-looking paycheck) to take action, however that hasn’t been the case.

Chandler is assured McGregor will present up

The previous Bellator champion is assured that McGregor “needs” the struggle and can present up on June 29, regardless of the latest developments. This, undoubtedly, is what all of the UFC followers are hoping for. UFC 303 has already turn out to be the highest-grossing gate occasion in UFC historical past with a reported $20 million assortment.

“If it was the UFC wanting me to get off the Conor McGregor versus Chandler bandwagon, they may have very simply been like ‘hey, this man’s harm, we want you to step in. You need to step in?’ I by no means bought a kind of cellphone calls in order that to me says it’s the struggle that the UFC needs. It’s clearly the struggle that I would like and it’s the struggle that Conor needs,” Chandler instructed Clark.

Chandler feels as a result of he and McGregor appeared on ‘The Final Fighter’ final 12 months, the UFC would additionally need to make it possible for they struggle, as has been the case for all of the opposing head coaches for the previous thirty seasons. What are your ideas on Chandler’s claims?

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