{"id":427858,"date":"2026-01-21T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427858\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:08:08","slug":"conor-mcgregor-praises-ufc-ahead-of-potential-white-house-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427858\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor praises UFC ahead of potential White House return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC legend Conor McGregor has praised the promotion ahead of their first big event of the Paramount era.<\/p>\n<p>It has now been four and a half years since we saw Conor McGregor last compete in the Octagon. On that night, in his trilogy fight against Dustin Poirier, the Irishman suffered a broken leg. While he\u2019s seemingly made a full recovery since then, he hasn\u2019t competed since the injury, and a lot of fans and pundits are wondering if he ever will.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-brutally-shuts-down-jorge-masvidal-conor-mcgregor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana White brutally shuts down rumored Conor McGregor vs. Jorge Masvidal fight at the White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alas, with the UFC White House event coming up over the summer, it certainly feels like McGregor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-reacts-dana-white-sudden-disinterest-michael-chandler-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is pushing hard<\/a> to be part of the card. Ahead of that, though, and before Dana White can really start planning the fights he wants to make for the White House, we have UFC 324 this weekend which will serve as the first major event of the new Paramount era.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/2013758571066818751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recent post on social media<\/a>, McGregor heaped praise on the team over at the UFC as we await further news regarding any kind of comeback.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Start to finish every single event, the ufc staff calendar is intense.<\/p>\n<p>Pre and post work not even included in that.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ufc<\/a> team!<\/p>\n<p>What a machine, it\u2019s not spoke about enough!<\/p>\n<p>FIGHT WEEK 1 IN FULL SWING OVER ON <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paramountplus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@paramountplus<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say everyone\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/2013758571066818751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McGregor praises UFC as return rumors continue<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStart to finish every single event, the ufc staff calendar is intense. Pre and post work not even included in that. It\u2019s 24\/7. Thank you to the @ufc team! What a machine, it\u2019s not spoke about enough! FIGHT WEEK 1 IN FULL SWING OVER ON @paramountplus ! I\u2019d say everyone is buzzing for it! I sure am! Can\u2019t wait to see it! Good luck to all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC legend Conor McGregor has praised the promotion ahead of their first big event of the Paramount era.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-427858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427858","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=427858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}