{"id":39006,"date":"2025-08-02T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39006\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:04:10","slug":"conor-mcgregor-officially-returns-to-ufc-drug-testing-pool-in-potential-step-toward-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39006\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor officially returns to UFC drug testing pool in potential step toward comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"conor-mcgregor-ufc-testing-pool-mma-news-today-aug-1-2025.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/conor-mcgregor-ufc-testing-pool-mma-news-today-aug-1-2025.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Stacy Revere\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Conor McGregor has officially returned to the UFC&#8217;s drug testing pool. Joining the pool is step one for McGregor&#8217;s potential comeback, possibly at next year&#8217;s proposed White House card.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, McGregor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMtgLEDN_ME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted<\/a>\u00a0photos and videos claiming he was submitting samples. There was deserved skepticism considering McGregor has repeatedly failed on promises to return to competition. However, the official UFC Anti-Doping <a href=\"https:\/\/ufcantidoping.com\/tests?year=2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0indicates that McGregor has completed his first test session this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mma\/news\/ufc-superstar-conor-mcgregor-loses-appeal-in-civil-rape-case-as-judges-dismiss-case-in-its-entirety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>UFC superstar Conor McGregor loses appeal in civil rape case as judges dismiss case &#8216;in its entirety&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Shakiel Mahjouri                <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"UFC superstar Conor McGregor loses appeal in civil rape case as judges dismiss case 'in its entirety'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/conor-mcgregor-court.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"152\" width=\"270\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>McGregor tested 11 times last year, mostly before a planned fight with Michael Chandler at UFC 303. McGregor pulled out of the fight with a broken pinky toe. The former two-division UFC champion hasn&#8217;t fought since Dustin Poirier beat him in July 2021. McGregor, who recently lost his appeal for a civil rape case in Ireland, has expressed interest in fighting at next year&#8217;s White House card.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excited with President Trump announcing a UFC fight event at the White  House,&#8221; McGregor <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thenotoriousmma?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> on July 4. &#8220;I would be  honoured! Count me in!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>UFC officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mma\/news\/ufc-confirms-president-donald-trumps-plans-for-white-house-fight-card-conor-mcgregor-says-count-me-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed plans<\/a>\u00a0for an event on White House property after President Donald Trump publicly proposed it for the United States&#8217; 250th birthday celebration. UFC CEO Dana White would not speak on if McGregor is a suitable candidate for the fight one year out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stacy Revere\/Getty Images Conor McGregor has officially returned to the UFC&#8217;s drug testing pool. Joining the pool is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-39006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}