{"id":403355,"date":"2024-06-15T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403355"},"modified":"2024-06-16T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T00:05:36","slug":"mcgregor-clarifies-return-status-after-shock-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403355","title":{"rendered":"McGregor clarifies return status after shock withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first public comments since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/combat-sports\/ufc-303-news-2024-conor-mcgregor-michael-chandler-fight-cancelled-20240614-p5jlv2.html\" title=\"pulling out of UFC 303\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulling out of UFC 303<\/a> on Thursday because of an undisclosed injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/conor-mcgregor-25fz\" title=\"Conor McGregor\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conor McGregor<\/a> called it a postponement rather than a cancellation of his fight with Michael Chandler that had been scheduled for later this month.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor said that he was injured shortly before his scheduled June 3 news conference in Dublin. <\/p>\n<p>The news conference was abruptly canceled, creating speculation that McGregor might not fight in the June 29 bout in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/combat-sports\/news-2024-paul-gallen-boxing-comeback-rumours-no-limit-barry-hall-george-rose-20240615-p5jm14.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gal hits back at &#x27;dumb&#x27; Hall over comeback rumours<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/state-of-origin\/state-of-origin-2024-latrell-mitchell-interview-nsw-blues-michael-maguire-20240615-p5jm2p.html\" title=\"&#x27;We on?&#x27;: Latrell breaks silence in huge Origin reveal\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;We on?&#x27;: Latrell breaks silence in huge Origin reveal<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2024-titans-tigers-result-highlights-video-leichhardt-oval-funding-api-koroisau-comments-20240615-p5jm1c.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tigers fans go &#x27;berserk&#x27; as horror run comes to an end<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to postpone the fight was not made lightly, but one made in consultation with my doctors, the UFC, and my team,\u201d McGregor posted on X. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fans and opponent deserve me at my best for this fight and we will get there! Thank you for the messages of support, I am in good spirits and confident I\u2019ll be back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1802026815260705137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1802026815260705137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira will face top-ranked challenger Jiri Prochazka in the main event in place of the McGregor-Chandler match.<\/p>\n<p>There also was a change with the co-main event. <\/p>\n<p>An injury forced light heavyweight contender Jamahal Hill to drop out, and Carlos Ulberg will face replacement Anthony Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In his first public comments since pulling out of UFC 303 on Thursday because of an undisclosed injury, Conor McGregor called it a postponement rather <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403355\" title=\"McGregor clarifies return status after shock withdrawal\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403357,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403355\/revisions\/403357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}