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Former Bellator Lightweight Champion Michael Chandler and former two division UFC champion Conor McGregor are expected to fight on June 29.
McGregor has already competed 28 times as a professional MMA fighter and Chandler believes fight #29 will be McGregor’s last.
“I do – I think I’ll be the last person (he fights),” Chandler told ESPN (transcript via Farah Hannoun of MMA Junkie). “I think he’s lost fights, but I think we haven’t really seen him be dominated. He was getting beat by Poirier and then obviously he had the injury. He got beat by Poirier the first time obviously, but I think I dominate him in a fashion that it’s almost as if he can keep trying to come back but he will have lost the fans’ interest so much more after I do to him what I’m going to do to him on June 29.”
Chandler and McGregor were the coaches on the last season of the UFC Ultimate Fighter, but their heavily rumored fight has yet to be made official, despite McGregor’s June 29th announcement.
The former Bellator Lightweight Champion isn’t happy that McGregor delayed their fight so long and he promises to make McGregor pay for that.
“There’s definitely a certain aspect of that revenge aspect, make him pay for the last year,” Chandler said. “Some of it was outside of his control but some of it, a lot of it, he created. I knew what I signed up for, I knew I signed up to do The Ultimate Fighter against a guy who was coming back from a devastating leg injury and it could have been delayed, but I didn’t think it would be delayed this long, and all of that is just deposits in the bank of me just wanting to absolutely smash this dude.”
