Daniel Cormier forecasts potential Conor McGregor 2024 struggle plans
In a latest episode of Good Man/Dangerous Man with Chael Sonnen, Cormier laid out a attainable gameplan for McGregor’s 2024 UFC run.
“Conor McGregor’s a businessman,” Cormier mentioned of McGregor. “If he will get by Michael Chandler, I say give him a title struggle. Put him in there with [Dustin] Poirier or [Islam] Makhachev, on Mexican Independence Day, or a while quickly thereafter. You don’t wish to have him having an excessive amount of time [in between fights]. If he loses, put him in there with Tony Ferguson…Tony Ferguson deserves to have that large platform the final time to see if he can go and do what he mentioned he was gonna do to Conor all of these occasions and so way back…
“In December, let him do Max Holloway. Let him and Max Holloway struggle. I wish to see Conor McGregor/Max Holloway right now, versus once they have been kids. They have been youngsters…Max Holloway [should] get a possibility to proper that improper in opposition to Conor McGregor, particularly if it’s the Holloway that beat Justin Gaethje.”
McGregor lately aimed toward Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, and their group in lately deleted tweets. Makhachev has additionally hinted at a possible struggle in opposition to McGregor if he defeats Dustin Poirier at UFC 302.
McGregor and Holloway squared off earlier of their UFC tenures in 2013. McGregor earned a unanimous resolution win en path to the UFC featherweight title.
Holloway captured the BMF belt by defeating Justin Gaethje at UFC 300. A timeline for his subsequent struggle is unsure, though he’s prone to face UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria subsequent.
Cormier is intrigued by McGregor’s comeback, and whereas a win at UFC 303 received’t erase his earlier struggles, it’ll open up a world of alternatives for the celebrity athlete.