Conor McGregor will either make his return to the octagon on December 14 in Las Vegas or early next year.



Asked when is McGregor going to fight next in a Twitter Q&A session, Dana White said: I’m sure you saw his tweet. Conor McGregor wants to fight on December 14. in Dublin but we have a fight in Las Vegas. So if he doesn’t fight on that card he will fight early next year.

Dana White on what’s next for Conor McGregor.

Conor McGregor’s last fight was at UFC 229 against Khabib Nurmagomedov and he lost via submission (neck crank) in the fourth round.

UFC 245 currently features only a single title fight between bantamweight champion?Amanda Nunes?and?Germaine de Randamie,?with several undercard bouts already announced for the show.

Rumors have swirled for weeks that the UFC targeted a second title fight for the pay-per-view card in December, but nothing official has been unveiled.

Adding McGregor to the card would be a huge boost to the year-end show, and the ex-champ has traded barbs with former interim titleholder?Dustin Poirier?over social media. Poirier called for a rematch against the Irish superstar following his third round submission loss to?Khabib Nurmagomedov?at?UFC 242.

Poirier lost to McGregor in 2014 when they competed in the featherweight division. After the setback, Poirier re-established himself as one of the best lightweight fighters in the world, racking up a 9-2 record with one no contest while McGregor?s lone win in the division came back in Nov. 2016 when he defeated Eddie Alvarez to claim the 155-pound title.

Sources close to Poirier tell MMA Fighting the former interim champion could be ready to return in December for a showdown against McGregor ? if the UFC is interested in the rematch.

The UFC would greatly benefit from having McGregor back sooner rather than later. His most recent fight took place in October 2018, when he fell to Nurmagomedov by fourth-round submission at UFC 229.

There are a line of fighters jockeying for position to welcome McGregor back to the Octagon, and White continues to tease his return in the near future.

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