Michael Chandler and Paddy Pimblett discovered their battle at UFC 314 is getting somewhat additional consideration after Conor McGregor talked about them on social media on Thursday.
The previous two-division UFC champion, who hasn’t competed since struggling a damaged leg in a battle again in 2021, posted “I’m within the Chandler/Pimblett battle this weekend” together with coaching footage that confirmed him working with certainly one of his coaches. Addressing the Twitter publish in the course of the UFC 314 pre-fight press convention, Chandler has been there and achieved that after he was connected to a battle towards McGregor for the higher a part of two years following a season spent teaching towards one another on The Final Fighter.
Sadly, the battle by no means truly occurred after McGregor broke his toe in coaching, which delayed the scheduled matchup anticipated again in 2024, and the UFC by no means revisited the bout once more.
“I’m positive he’s watching,” Chandler stated reacting to McGregor’s message. “He watches and he’s very serious about coming again however can he put collectively a coaching camp? That’s the actual query. We don’t know. All I do know is you’ll be able to see by my actions combating Charles Oliveira in November and now combating 5 months later Paddy Pimblett, placing my rating on the road, going out to courageous the unknown, I’m going to remain energetic.
“The primary 26 months within the group, I weighed in six instances, fought 5 instances. Battle of the Night time, Battle of the Yr, Debut of the Yr, Knockout of the Yr, all I do is placed on nice fights. I do it for you guys and on Saturday evening, we’re going to do it once more. I don’t actually care what Conor tweets. If he comes again, we’ve obtained to complete The Final Fighter 31 and he’s going to be impressed by my efficiency on Saturday evening.”
As soon as it was clear that McGregor wasn’t returning in a well timed style, Chandler booked the battle towards Oliveira however sadly issues didn’t go his means. Chandler finally misplaced a unanimous choice however as talked about, he wasted no time accepting the battle towards Pimblett for Saturday’s UFC 314 card from Miami.
As for Pimblett, he appeared blissful to listen to the information that McGregor is retaining a watchful eye on his battle however he can’t concern himself an excessive amount of with the Irish celebrity.
The matchup towards Chandler is by far the largest alternative of Pimblett’s UFC profession and he can’t even ponder a battle with McGregor till after he wins.
“I seen it clearly, I obtained despatched it by a superb few individuals,” Pimbeltt stated about McGregor’s message. “I welcome that battle. That’s the place the cash’s at.
“However I can’t look previous Michael. I’ve obtained to battle Michael on Saturday evening and get the win right here. That’s all that issues.”
There’s been no concrete indication on when McGregor would possibly battle once more however he continues to tease his comeback and now he’s a minimum of obtained Chandler and Pimblett paying consideration forward of their co-main occasion battle at UFC 314.
