{"id":787001,"date":"2026-07-08T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787001\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:11:09","slug":"mcgregor-wants-quick-turnaround-after-ufc-329-we-plan-on-getting-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787001\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor wants quick turnaround after UFC 329: \u2018We plan on getting busy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor has landed in Las Vegas and is soaking up the scenery at the T-Mobile Arena, where he\u2019ll fight Max Holloway for UFC 329<\/a> on July 11th. According to \u201cThe Notorious,\u201d he\u2019s happy to be back and doesn\u2019t plan on slowing down now that he\u2019s competing again.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh man, I love this arena,\u201d McGregor told ESPN. \u201cI love fight night, fight week. And God willing, I\u2019m back here next week and the week after, how many weeks is in a year? 54? Here you go, I could fight every week if it\u2019s a go, you know? Before the injury, I had maybe three within the year. People don\u2019t recall that. And, yeah, there you go. We plan on getting busy here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only problem? His promotion, the UFC, seems more interested in slowing his roll than letting him fight out the last two fights on his current contract. McGregor previously revealed that the promotion had floated April 2027<\/a> as a date for his next fight. That clearly annoyed Mac, who has been trying to get a \u2018season of fighting\u2019 in since before COVID.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI wish for it,\u201d he said of a quick return. \u201cSo if I\u2019m the man in the arena, right? I\u2019m the one that\u2019s making the walk. So if I\u2019m the one who\u2019s pushing further and campaigning for it, I\u2019m sure that [will be] the case. Now I\u2019ve said my piece with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and their staging of my bouts, and they\u2019ve said their piece. And it\u2019s kind of fallen on, \u2018Let it happen on Saturday night, and let\u2019s talk.\u2019 And I\u2019m fine with that. I\u2019m absolutely fine with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you know, two fights left on the contract. It\u2019s still as is. This one will be, then one. So I hope to keep going, and I\u2019m optimistic that will be the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear, though, that McGregor is currently locked in and devoted to the fight game. We\u2019ll have to see how long that remains the case, but UFC should strike while the iron is hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor has landed in Las Vegas and is soaking up the scenery at the T-Mobile Arena, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-787001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787001","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=787001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}