Michael Chandler has obtained heavy criticism over the previous two years for patiently ready for a possible battle towards Conor McGregor, however ‘Iron’ lastly reached the top of his tether just lately.
After Dana White adamantly introduced that Conor McGregor wouldn’t be returning to the Octagon this yr, Michael Chandler demanded a distinct battle, to which the UFC afforded him a rematch towards Charles Oliveira.
With the 2 scheduled to conflict at UFC 309 in November, ‘Iron’ Chandler believes that with a win over ‘Do Bronx’, he’ll then be given the selection of both a battle towards the undisputed light-weight champion or ‘The Infamous’ McGregor.
Michael Chandler keen to ‘wager all of it’ that he’ll battle McGregor in comeback battle
Regardless of deciding to take a distinct battle as a substitute of ready longer than the 2 years he’s already waited, the 38-year-old believes that it’s going to nonetheless be him who will get to welcome the previous two-weight world champion again to the UFC.
“I nonetheless stand agency within the notion that Conor McGregor is coming again and when he does, his highway goes via Nashville Tennessee, and Michael Chandler, and we end the Final Fighter,” Chandler started to elucidate in an interview with MMAFighting.
“I’m Conor’s subsequent battle however he’s not my subsequent battle and I’m keen to go and wager all of it, I’m keen to go and wager the home, I’m keen to go and wager the farm, I’m keen to place all of the stress on myself in an enormous battle card.
“When he will get his home so as I’ll be ready for him. If not, I obtained no downside beating Charles and going to battle for the title as a result of if I had that selection right this moment I’m going to battle Islam (Makhachev) after I beat Charles,” he continued.
The aforementioned Islam Makhachev is out of motion till the brand new yr as he’s at the moment nursing a hand damage. His subsequent challenger is probably going Arman Tsarukyan, who is probably going going to attend for the Russian to return earlier than combating once more.
Michael Chandler hits again at critics who’ve teased him for ready two years
All through the 2 years of ready for a battle towards McGregor, Chandler has been teased by not solely followers however fellow fighters.
Regardless of the fixed teasing from different fighters, Chandler believes every other fighter in his place would’ve achieved the very same factor as him.
“It’s actually humorous, you’ve had a thousand fighters sit right here throughout from you and discuss to you doing interviews, and all of them who’ve mentioned I used to be Conor’s little whipping boy or I used to be ready too lengthy or I used to be losing my profession, each single certainly one of them would’ve held on to this Conor battle, even when publically they are saying they wouldn’t,” Chandler claimed.
In basic Chandler style, the previous UFC title challenger has remained extraordinarily constructive all through the entire course of and has even said that possibly it was a great factor that he had two years off to correctly get better from a number of wars.
“I loved myself, I wanted a while away from this sport… Me being pulled out of the game has given me a brand new lease on life and a brand new love for the game,” Chandler said.
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