MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cWe text almost every day, FaceTime. The way I\u2019ve been seeing him training, the way he\u2019s taking everything so serious \u2014 he didn\u2019t travel to a couple of BKFC\u2019s because he wanted to stay in camp and make sure he was training and doing all the stuff that he has to do.<\/p>\n\u201cI am excited to see him come back. That\u2019s why I\u2019m saying it\u2019s hard to even compare the Conor that was back then. Conor\u2019s always Conor, but this one is dedicated, focused, training, doing everything, even the extras. Even doing the stuff that not every fighter does. It\u2019s really exciting to see. I text him like, \u2018Bro, you\u2019re f*cking killing it right now.\u2019 I\u2019m so happy. As a friend, I\u2019m so excited for him to come back, and the person that he\u2019s fighting is going to get his head taken off. I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still uncertain if McGregor will actually return this summer. \u201cNotorious\u201d was linked to the UFC White House card, but then rumors pivoted to a possible comeback at this year\u2019s International Fight Week. And if he does come back, who he fights is still an open question. Previously, McGregor was set to fight Michael Chandler, and has continued to lobby for that matchup, but recently, UFC CEO Dana White shut that idea down, and Chandler is now scheduled to face Mauricio Ruffy at UFC White House.<\/p>\n
Danis hinted that he might know who is on offer for McGregor\u2019s return, but would not say anything more on the subject. However, if he had his druthers, Danis would like a fight that will almost certainly never happen: a rematch between McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want the Khabib rematch,\u201d Danis said. \u201cHe\u2019s talked about some of the things that happened in that camp. I think now, the Conor that he is right now, he demolishes Khabib inside two.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danis has his own history with Nurmagomedov, being the one Khabib attacked after submitting McGregor, leading to their infamous brawl.<\/p>\n
But Danis has a different wrestler to worry about at the moment. On Saturday night, Danis faces Colby Covington in the co-main event of RAF 7, his first foray into amateur wrestling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Danis says Conor McGregor is not only back, but he\u2019s better than ever. McGregor, who is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-570302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570302","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=570302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}