On June 29, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor will make the walk to the octagon for the first time since July 2021.  

McGregor takes on former lightweight title challenger Michael Chandler in a welterweight bout in the UFC 303 main event.  Tickets for the event sold out almost immediately to see McGregor’s return, but Chael Sonnen believes “The Notorious” is going to lose to Chandler.  

“Michael Chandler wins,” Sonnen said in an interview with Bloody Elbow. “You have the most disciplined guy in the sport arguably, and you have the most undisciplined guy in the sport for sure. It’s one of those situations where when you do this conversation, everyone’s going to be lazy like I’m going to be right now and say, ‘Conor’s got a puncher’s chance and if Chandler stands up with him’ so on and so forth.

“I don’t know where you get that idea, a puncher’s chance. I know that’s something fun people say, but you’ve got to go back to Michael Moorer dropping the belt to George Foreman. There’s no such thing as a puncher’s chance. The better guy wins, he wins every single time. Michael Chandler could go out there and box with Conor at this point. You don’t get better at something by not doing it.”

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