Conor McGregor reveals 'only' condition for UFC return nearly a year after being sidelined with toe injury

Conor McGregor has agelong touted his instrumentality to the octagon aft his archetypal effort past June came to an unfortunate extremity owed to a grooming injury. 

But contempt his past combat being astir 4 years agone and his newfound involvement successful politics, the celebrated combatant is seemingly funny successful making different effort astatine a comeback – nether 1 condition. 

The UFC combatant took to societal media connected Tuesday pursuing the occurrence of WrestleMania 41, which was held astatine Allegiant Stadium, the location of the Las Vegas Raiders, to connection his 1 stipulation of returning to the sport.

MMA combatant Conor McGregor smiles during the presumption of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship successful Marbella connected July 18, 2024. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images)

Host a UFC combat astatine a stadium.

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"I’ll lone travel backmost to a stadium," helium wrote successful a station connected X. 

While fans of the athletics responded positively to the post, UFC CEO Dana White would apt not stock the aforesaid reaction. 

White has antecedently voiced his absorption to hosting fights astatine stadiums. In September, earlier UFC 306, White made it wide that hosting a combat astatine a stadium would travel astatine the disbursal of the instrumentality acquisition due to the fact that of the accumulation challenges. 

UFC'S DANA WHITE EXPLAINS WHY HE WANTS 'NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS,' CITES MEDIA'S TREATMENT OF TRUMP

Dana White during UFC 303 astatine T-Mobile Arena successful Las Vegas, June 29, 2024. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA Today Sports)

"When I enactment connected a unrecorded lawsuit connected Saturdays, I privation the champion successful location acquisition radical tin perchance have, and I privation the aforesaid acquisition connected television," helium told the media during a property conference. "I conscionable don’t recognize wherefore I would request to bash a stadium when, for what? I tin get much radical successful there? It conscionable doesn’t involvement me. 

"What interests maine is putting connected the champion unrecorded event. People ever speech astir however accelerated this athletics grew – the unrecorded lawsuit is portion of the crushed that the athletics grew similar this." 

UFC 306 was hosted astatine the Sphere in Las Vegas, but White said astatine the clip that it would apt beryllium the past lawsuit of its kind. 

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McGregor, 36, past fought successful 2021, erstwhile helium mislaid to Dustin Poirier aft breaking his limb during the fight. He was slated to combat Michael Chandler astatine UFC 303 successful June, but the combat was called disconnected aft helium broke his toed during training. 

Conor McGregor takes portion successful a KnuckleMania V boxing quality conference, Jan. 23, 2025, successful Bensalem, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

After sharing the conditions of his return, McGregor called retired Chandler successful a abstracted post, stating the 2 had "unfinished business." 

Chandler responded with a station of his own, lone further fueling speculation. 

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