said<\/a> in a message directed at Gaethje. “There’s a few (waiting in line). Look, he has the lightweight belt. Fair play to him. Holloway put him face down, ass up, though. Badly. Badly face down.<\/p>\n“I’m not even thinking of it at this time. Would I go down to lightweight again? I’m not so sure. I fancy the triple crown. … Less of the disrespect, you f—–g bum.”<\/p>\n
Gaethje pulled off a stunning upset against Ilia Topuria to capture the lightweight title at the UFC White House event in June. Two weeks after the fight, the 37-year-old said he “would love to punch Conor McGregor in the face.”<\/p>\n
Gaethje’s most recent loss came against Holloway at UFC 300 in 2024. Holloway knocked out Gaethje in the final second of the five-round fight, delivering one of the most iconic moments in MMA history.<\/p>\n
McGregor, a former lightweight and featherweight champion, hasn’t fought since breaking his leg in a loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. The 37-year-old Irishman enters his comeback bout against Holloway on a two-fight losing steak. He has a 1-3 record dating back to 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor doesn’t seem too interested in returning to the lightweight division for a fight with Justin Gaethje.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-789153","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\/789153","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=789153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}