Brendan Schaub, a former UFC heavyweight, has an interesting theory on why there has been such a delay for Conor McGregor to be booked for a return. He recently discussed on his podcast.
“There’s more to that story that we’re not getting,” Schaub said “But it’s going be International Fight Week, Conor didn’t pull that out of his a**. It’s going to be Michael Chandler…”
Fight fans have been eagerly waiting for the return of Conor, and have been since the TUF Season 31 where he and Michael Chandler were coaches (and essentially where the bad blood between the two began).
Brendan Schaub continued with more of his thoughts surrounding Conor’s situation with UFC and what he thinks.
Brendan Schaub Shares his Theories on Conor McGregor
“I really think Conor just wants to do that one fight and then bounce, and make all the money fighting Manny Pacquiao, Jake Paul, and Nate Diaz in boxing or MMA in their own promotion in Dublin or wherever. That’s what’s going on there, UFC is trying to, you know, do what they do, and keep him under wraps. So, we’ll see what happens. To Dana’s defence, he also was like, ‘The reason we didn’t announce the fight is like he’s doing all this promo for his movie,’
“And he’s like, ‘To do a movie tour promo, like, that takes all your attention. Now that that’s done, he’s going to go to a legit camp, and the fight will be announced.’ He’s like ‘We’re just waiting ’till this movie, you, do their thing, and then we’ll piggyback on that and you get a fight announcement.’ So I’d assume we get a fight announcement pretty soon.”
Who knows if the delay is even a strategic plan between Conor and Dana White to help gauge the interest of fight fans and potentially use it as a boost to spark ticket sales if and when a return happens.
Conor McGregor has been vocal in the past about how serious he is with a return to combat action, but his targets always seem to be all over the place between a return to a boxing ring and the UFC Octagon.
Let’s just hope Conor’s movie debut in Roadhouse did not add to the delay of his return to MMA.
What are your thoughts on Brendan Schaub’s theory? Is he spot on? Do you have any theories of your own on when or where Conor McGregor will return?
