{"id":436118,"date":"2023-05-17T13:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436118"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:27:14","slug":"mcgregor-says-chandler-fight-will-be-announced-soon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mcgregor-says-chandler-fight-will-be-announced-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor says Chandler fight will be announced soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC fighter Conor McGregor has revealed that his highly anticipated return to the UFC will be announced soon. The Irishman will return to the octagon later this year for a mouthwatering clash with fan favorite Michael Chandler. However, the UFC have yet to announce a date for the fight as McGregor appears to be out of their drug testing suite.<\/p>\n<p>But McGregor insists all will be revealed in the coming weeks, telling TMZ: \u201cSoon, very soon. There will be an announcement soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The delay in announcing the McGregor vs. Chandler bout is due to the fact that the Irishman has yet to be re-entered into the United States Anti-Doping Agency&#8217;s testing pool.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Even Dana White \u2018doesn\u2019t know\u2019 when McGregor and Chandler will fight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dlakWrShAI\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/dlakWrShAI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3NhriWeBhF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3NhriWeBhF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMA Mania (@mmamania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmamania\/status\/1658097253444091904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>UFC and USADA policy requires returning fighters to be in the group for a minimum of six months before they are eligible to compete, although exceptions to the rule can sometimes be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC fighter Conor McGregor has revealed that his highly anticipated return to the UFC will be announced soon. The Irishman will return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":97238,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19415,18148],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[19416,1093],"acf":{"announce":"The Irishman will be returning to the octagon for a mouthwatering clash","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436118"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436118"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}