"Major Update: Conor McGregor's Comeback After UFC Ban Takes a Troubling Turn, Insider Reveals"

CONOR MCGREGOR will finally make his long-awaited return to the UFC this summer, unless something “disastrous” happens.

The promotion’s poster boy is tentatively slated to make his cage comeback at 330 in Las Vegas on July 11.

Conor McGregor is on course to make his UFC return this summerCredit: GETTY The Irishman received the green light to return to the cage earlier this monthCredit: GETTY

McGregor’s team entered talks with the UFC brass over his return earlier this month.

A source revealed to SunSport that preliminary negotiations between both parties were “positive”.

It’s been nigh-on radio silence from and the UFC about the Irishman‘s return over the last fortnight.

But according insider Ariel Helwani, it’s now looking like it’ll take a “disastrous” turn of events to scupper the Return of the Mac.

During the latest episode of The Ariel Helwani Show , he said: “This is what I continue to say.

“The master of good timing, the beneficiary of the best timing in the history of the sport is [McGregor].

“I told you about the meeting two weeks ago, I told you it went well, Petsey [Carroll] told you it went well.

“At this point, I think it would be safe to say it would be a disastrous situation, something disastrous would have had to have happened if he’s not fighting on Jul. 11.”

Helwani added: “They need this now more than ever, they need this guy on that [International Fight Week] card.”

McGregor, 37, last Friday after he finished serving his 18-month anti-doping suspension.

He received the sanction due to his violation of the UFC and Combat Sport Anti-Doping’s policy by missing three drug tests in 12 months.

The ban, which he received last October, was backdated to the date of his missed test, which was scheduled for June 13, 2024.

McGregor hasn’t set foot inside the octagon since nearly five years ago.

Conor McGregor hasn’t set foot inside the octagon in nearly five years The Dubliner shattered his left leg in his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier at UFC 264Credit: AP

Mystic Mac was due to be in action against at UFC 303 in June 2024, but he withdrew from their Sin City showdown with a broken left pinky toe.

Whomever McGregor fights next, they’ll be his first opponent since he was found at a Dublin hotel in 2018.

He , which was turned in by a jury of his peers at Dublin’s High Court in November 2024.

And the Supreme Court rejected the MMA star’s bid for a further appeal last December.