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Former two division UFC champion Conor McGregor hasn’t competed since suffering a second straight loss to former UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 264 in July of 2021.
John Kavanagh says that while many expected McGregor to fight this April at UFC 300, a return bout probably won’t be happening until the Summer.
“We were hoping for April. That was the hope. That was what we were told. And now it seems to be the summertime,” Kavanagh said on The MMA Hour. “I don’t know [why]. That’s literally what we were having a bit of a back and forward [about] today.”
McGregor hasn’t won a fight in over four years by the time he supposedly returns to action, with his last win coming in January of 2020.
Kavanagh also admits that he was worried about McGregor’s mental health, but he has been hearing positive things about the fighter recently.
“Well, I was [worried about his mental health] too, I’m not going to lie. But hearing him today, he’s out there finding this great group of training partners — at least he’s doing that,” Kavanagh said. “Hey, it’s not quite the same as getting in to compete in front of a large crowd, but at least he’s getting training in, and that’s so important. We heard Volk talk about that, ‘Keep me busy,’ and all that. So I love to hear that he’s training hard with these guys.
“But look, and this is what I was saying to him as well — yeah, OK, it’s a knock back if we’re hearing it was April but now it’s July, but it’s not the end of the world. It is an extra couple of months. It’s not great. But hey, you’re enjoying your training at the moment. Let’s just keep that going. But the sport, you are around for such a short time as compared to — well, I’m not going to try to make a comparison to other sports or whatever, but like our careers, we can do this for decades. For fighters, is a short time.”
