Gilbert Burns thinks Conor McGregor is enjoying thoughts video games to make folks assume his UFC 303 combat is in jeopardy.
McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) is predicted to satisfy Michael Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) within the June 29 headliner at T-Cell Area in Las Vegas. Nonetheless, a number of components have had many skeptical if McGregor has suffered an damage and is out of the combat.
McGregor posted and later deleted an previous video on his Instagram story which hinted at a potential damage, inflicting much more hypothesis. Nonetheless, Chandler’s Kill Cliff FC teammate Burns is satisfied that the combat remains to be on. He thinks McGregor is emulating Ryan Garcia’s antics forward of his Devin Haney combat, the place he had folks considering he wasn’t mentally match to compete.
“The press convention was presupposed to be like two weeks in the past and the press convention bought loopy,” Burns mentioned on his YouTube channel. “I feel, my opinion, Conor McGregor is pulling up the Ryan Garcia card – , attempting to behave a bit of bit loopy. We noticed an image this man within the hospital.
“I do assume if he had any kind of damage and he was within the hospital, for positive the man not going to do any put up that he’s within the hospital hanging out. I feel he’s bluffing. I feel he’s good. The combat’s going to occur and simply making folks overthinking, perhaps play with the percentages like Ryan Garcia did. However I feel the combat is going on. I feel he’s prepared. I feel it’s going to be a great combat.”
The UFC introduced that it had “postponed” the UFC 303 pre-fight press convention that includes McGregor and Chandler about 12 hours earlier than it was set to happen June 3 in Dublin. Nonetheless, simply 16 days out from UFC 303, no official phrase has been given on the state of the combat.
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