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Conor McGregor appears ready to make his comeback.

Following an eventful week where he hosted a BKFC press conference, launched a new record label, blasted Jake Paul after his boxing match and apparently fired Mike Perry from his job with the bare-knuckle promotion, the Irish superstar took to Twitter to inform his next opponent that he’s healthy and ready to fight.

The comment came after McGregor posted a video showing him hitting a punching machine with no gloves on and that led to Michael Chandler replying “but show us the bare foot knuckles.” McGregor broke his pinky toe in the weeks leading up to his fight against Chandler at UFC 303 in June, which forced the matchup to be delayed.

“Hey bum beggar — the foot is fully healed,” McGregor wrote in response to Chandler.

That’s great news for McGregor, who just recently passed the three year mark since his last appearance in the UFC when he suffered a gruesome broken leg in his trilogy against Dustin Poirier.

McGregor underwent surgery shortly after the event but he had a lot of recovery time awaiting him as he looked to bounce back from the devastating injury.

He got matched up with Chandler in early 2023 after they were selected to coach against each other on a season of The Ultimate Fighter but the reality show came and went without a fight being announced.

After getting back into the UFC’s anti-doping program, McGregor was finally cleared to return to the cage until disaster struck with the foot injury he suffered in sparring.

That led to the fight between McGregor and Chandler being postponed.

McGregor previously hinted that he spoke to the UFC about getting a new date on the books, although UFC CEO Dana White denied that he’s started contemplating a potential landing spot for the highly anticipated fight. More than anything, White made it clear that he didn’t want to announce anything until he knew McGregor was 100 percent healthy and ready to go but he hoped for the fight to happen in 2024.

Judging by McGregor’s latest message on Twitter, that might be just the news that White was waiting to hear.

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Sidelined from a scheduled return at the end of last month, former two-weight champion, Conor McGregor has confirmed his foot is once more “fully healed” after fracturing a toe ahead of UFC 303 clash with Michael Chandler.

McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight and featherweight champion, was slated to headline the promotion’s International Fight Week card at UFC 303 in a welterweight outing against Chandler – snapping a three-year hiatus from the Octagon.

Out of action since he took main event honors at UFC 264, McGregor most recently fractured his left tibia and fibula in a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO loss against common-foe, former interim champion, Dustin Poirier.

And earlier this week, amid links to a potential end-of-year rescheduled return, Dublin striker, McGregor confirmed he would likely fight by December time – with a UFC 310 timeline targeted currently. 

“My comeback is scheduled for the end of the year,” Conor McGregor said. “Sometime the end of this year, closing out the show. So, I was close to returning. We had an incident and a postement had to happen, you know, it is what it is. We take it on the chin and rock on.”

“The fight [with Michael Chandler] is rescheduled for the end of this calendar year,” Conor McGregor explained. “So, I’m excited about that and eager to get back.”

Conor McGregor confirms foot injury is “fully healed”

And on social media tonight, McGregor claimed his foot was “fully healed” once more, in response to a dig from the above-mentioned, Chandler.

“Hey bum beggar,” Conor McGregor posted on his official X account. “The foot is fully healed.”

Without a win since 2020, McGregor’s most recent victory came in the form of a first round high-kick and strikes TKO win over former lightweight title challenger and Hall of Fame inductee, Donald Cerrone in his most recent welterweight walk. 

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Jake Paul put on a thoroughly dominant display in his boxing matchup with Mike Perry on Saturday, overwhelming the BKFC star en route to a sixth-round knockout win.

The victory marked the fifth former UFC star whom Paul has stood victorious over in the boxing ring, with previous wins over Nate Diaz, Anderson Silva, Ben Askren, and Tyron Woodley (twice).

Woodley was, in fact, on color commentary for the Paul vs. Perry DAZN broadcast, and he was willing to tip his cap to his former foe.

“You got to kind of give Jake his props, man,” Woodley told The Schmo in a post-fight interview. “You can be a hater all you want, but he was punching the dude high, low. He was throwing power with both hands, variety.”

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Paul dropped Perry once each during the opening two rounds. Despite this, “Platinum” continued to go through the former Disney star’s punches and fire away, trying to make use of his well-known and entertaining brawling style. “The Problem Child,” however, continued to land damaging shots, and Perry was dropped for a third time during the sixth round.

Perry stumbled while returning to his feet, prompting the referee to call the fight in Paul’s favor.

One notable thing that critics got on Paul for was his heavy breathing during the fight, as the Cleveland native seemed to be winded after his bashing of Perry for two rounds.

Woodley, however, pointed out that Paul recovered and got the knockout eventually — and that’s what cardio is about, not a lack of breathing hard.

“Everybody thinks you’re supposed to have the cardio where you never breathe hard,” Woodley said. “When you’re punching that hard, it’s not about breathing hard, it’s about recovering. He showed he can recover and go back to the power.”

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With UFC 304 on Saturday night, take a closer look at the two championship fights on the pay-per-view main card thanks to the UFC 304 Countdown video.

Leon Edwards defends his UFC welterweight title in a rematch against top contender Belal Muhammad in the main event on July 27 at the Co-op Live in Manchester, England. In the co-main event, Tom Aspinall defends his UFC interim heavyweight title in a rematch against Curtis Blaydes.

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Doo Ho Choi let it all hang out during and after his fight at UFC Vegas 94.

It had been a long time since Choi tasted victory inside the octagon, thanks to a combination of losses and inactivity. You’d have to go as far back as 2016 to find Choi’s most recent win, a fast knockout of Thiago Tavares that preceded a future Hall of Fame fight with Cub Swanson at UFC 206.

On Saturday, Choi finally had his hand raised again following a tough fight with Bill Algeo that ended with Choi knocking out a stunned Algeo in the second round. Afterward, Choi was visibly emotional, and he described what was going through his mind in that moment speaking to the media backstage at UFC APEX in Las Vegas.

“I got emotional because this win was a long time coming,” Choi said via a Korean translator. “It’s been a while. It’s been a while since I won, and the last time it didn’t go very well and I heard all the haters, all the people that said I’m done and I can’t do it anymore. It started to affect me. I started to doubt myself a little bit.

“I was thinking, ‘Is this really it? Am I really done?’ I kept faith in myself and I had to prove it to myself, and I proved it to myself tonight, so that’s why I’m emotional.”

Choi, fondly known as “The Korean Superboy,” was a 23-year-old blue-chip prospect when he made his UFC debut with an 18-second knockout of Juan Manuel Puig in 2014. He won 14 of his first 15 pro bouts before falling short in a classic brawl against Swanson.

Two more losses followed and then Choi had to spend two years in the military, a mandatory service in his native South Korea. He returned in February 2023 against Kyle Nelson, but could only muster a majority draw after a strong performance that was dulled by Choi receiving a point-deduction for a head butt in the third round.

Through all that, Choi remained optimistic.

“I know this is the one thing that I’m good at,” Choi said. “If I try my best and leave it all out there and if it doesn’t go my way, then I can accept that, maybe I don’t have it. I kept believing in myself and kept trying and I got it done.”

Choi had an extra boost Saturday with the legendary “Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung in his corner. Though Choi is not officially part of Jung’s team, he considers Jung to be a mentor and the two work closely together when Choi prepares for fights.

He made sure to thank Jung both in his post-fight speech and in his media scrum.

“I’m very thankful for ‘Zombie’ because he puts into my fights the amount effort that he put into his past title fights,” Choi said. “That’s the amount of care that he puts into my camps.”

Watch Choi’s post-fight media scrum below, courtesy of FanSided MMA.

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