CONOR MCGREGOR claims to have accepted an opponent for his long-awaited UFC return.
The Irishman hasn’t set foot inside the octagon since breaking his left leg in his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier nearly five years ago.
Conor McGregor is seemingly on the verge of returning to the UFCCredit: Getty – Contributor
The Notorious has been gearing up to make his return on the UFC’s White House card on June 14.
And in a since-deleted tweet, he’s claimed to have accepted an opponent offered to him by the UFC brass.
He wrote on X: “I have been offered an opponent and a date and I accept.
“Waiting on my contract.”
McGregor’s claim that he has an opponent lined up suggests he may have come to terms with the UFC brass over his public dispute over his contract.
The former two-division champion – who is currently serving an anti-doping suspension for three whereabouts failures – recently claimed his contract was “essentially void” now that the UFC are no longer in the pay-per-view business.
During a live stream, he said: “I’m going into negotiations with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in February.
“I’m very interested to go. They’ve actually got a new deal with Paramount, it’s worth $7.7 billion.
“So the company has 4xed its profit, and my contract, essentially, is void right now because there’s no more pay-per-view, whereas my contract was based on pay-per-view sales.
“I’m the highest-generating pay-per-view fighter of all time. The pay-per-view system is done, I’m due a new contract.
“So, we’re going into negotiations in February, and I’m very interested to see how it goes.”
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