{"id":484190,"date":"2024-06-14T09:20:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484190"},"modified":"2024-06-14T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:20:27","slug":"mcgregor-will-miss-ufc-303-with-an-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mcgregor-will-miss-ufc-303-with-an-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor will miss UFC 303 with an injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor will not be in the octagon against Michael Chandler at UFC 303 on June 29<sup>th<\/sup> in Las Vegas, UFC chief Dana White confirmed the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler at UFC 303 on June 29 has been canceled, per Dana White.<\/p>\n<p>The new main event is Alex Pereira vs. Ji\u0159\u00ed Prochazka for the light heavyweight title. <\/p>\n<p>McGregor vs. Chandler will be re-booked later this year. The fight has been pushed because\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T78ZNIzF2u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/T78ZNIzF2u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1801444708289315293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Irish legend (22-6) was scheduled to be the main event that night but has withdrawn because of a problem. It\u2019s the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in Conor\u2019s UFC time he&#8217;s pulled out of a bout for any reason.<\/p>\n<p>The fight that now will headline the UFC 303 will be between Alex Pereira and Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka.<\/p>\n<p>Dana revealed additional information about the UFC 303. Diego Lopes will fight vs. Brian Ortega in the co-main event and Carlos Ulberg will now be in the octagon vs. Anthony Smith in a light heavyweight fight after Jamahal Hill is also unable to take part in the event with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear if the bout between Conor and Michael will be rescheduled for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor will not be in the octagon against Michael Chandler at UFC 303 on June 29th in Las Vegas, UFC chief Dana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484191,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19415,16835,22854],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[19416,20047,22855],"acf":{"announce":"Conor fight against Michael is off, the UFC president confirmed.","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\/484190"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484192,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484190\/revisions\/484192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484190"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484190"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}