Just a couple weeks back, UFC president Dana White said he was convinced Conor McGregor would return to the octagon in 2019 and that he would meet the former UFC two-division champion when he came to South Florida for UFC on ESPN+ 8 fight week.
“I’m meeting with Conor in Miami in two weeks,” White said during the UFC’s summer lineup news conference in Atlanta on April 12.
Well, UFC Fort Lauderdale has come and gone, and there were no McGregor sightings in the area. McGregor made headlines back home appearing in a charity exhibition boxing match last week, but this week he seemed more concerned with bragging about Proper No. Twelve’s sales than lining up his next fight.
At the UFC on ESPN+ 8 post-event news conference Saturday night, White confirmed the planned meeting didn’t come to pass, but said they’ll meet in Los Angeles soon.
“I was supposed to meet with him down here; we’re going to meet in LA instead,” White said.
McGregor, who’s been at the center of various legal trouble of late, has not fought since his UFC 229 submission loss to undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. McGregor has stirred conjecture since by offering to fight a wide variety of fighters on Twitter after said fighters scored impressive victories. At one point, McGregor was in talks to meet Donald Cerrone in a fight that did not pan out.
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