{"id":486308,"date":"2024-08-14T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486308"},"modified":"2024-08-14T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:57:07","slug":"dana-white-claims-mcgregor-wont-fight-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dana-white-claims-mcgregor-wont-fight-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White claims McGregor won&#8217;t fight in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor&#8217;s long-awaited return to the Octagon won\u2019t happen in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>UFC chief Dana White spoke about the future of the ex-2-division champ after the season debut of &#8220;Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series&#8221;. While the UFC president shared his optimism that the Irish superstar will fight again, Dana shared that a match against Michael Chandler will not happen in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discussed, and he wants to be on the Octagon,&#8221; Dana revealed when asked when Conor will fight again. &#8220;We will figure it out. Not in 2024. McGregor won\u2019t be on the Octagon until the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conor, however, shared on social media that he can return in December and fight in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish fighter has not been on the Octagon since breaking his leg vs. Dustin Poirier 3 years ago. McGregor had to make his return 2 months ago against Michael, but a broken toe forced him out of the bout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ah Dana, December is the date! Bring the calendar year home with a winning event! Come on now, what\u2019s this? I am off to altitude next month to prepare. DECEMBER! Tell Dana and UFC WE WANT DECEMBER! WE DESERVE DECEMBER! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZTVO4wDBuQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZTVO4wDBuQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1823550858962887114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor&#8217;s long-awaited return to the Octagon won\u2019t happen in 2024. UFC chief Dana White spoke about the future of the ex-2-division champ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486309,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19415,17285,18148],"news_category":[16710,14084],"gn_keywords":[19416,17964,1093],"acf":{"announce":"The UFC president revealed that Conor will not fight this year.","video":["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\/486308"}],"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=486308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486310,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486308\/revisions\/486310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486308"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486308"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}