{"id":842966,"date":"2026-08-04T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842966\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:40:10","slug":"mcgregor-confirms-surgery-for-torn-acl-after-ufc-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842966\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor Confirms Surgery For Torn ACL After UFC 329"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor<\/a> is going under the knife to repair the torn ACL and meniscus he suffered at UFC 329 last month.<\/p>\n<p>The former two-division UFC champion posted to social media Monday that he is headed for surgery, marking his fifth career operation, per MMA Mania. &#8220;What&#8217;s up folks, it&#8217;s &#8216;The Mac.&#8217; Off to get surgery today,&#8221; McGregor wrote. &#8220;Wish me well. I&#8217;m going to fuel up with a Mac Energy. Let&#8217;s go. We got this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGregor&#8217;s Comeback Ends After 69 Seconds<\/p>\n<p>McGregor injured his knee during the first round of his <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a> rematch with Max Holloway in Las Vegas on July 11, unable to continue after just 69 seconds. The highly-anticipated return brought his first cage appearance in over a year to a brutal close. The injury is expected to sideline him for roughly 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman has one fight remaining on his current UFC contract, meaning he could test free agency for the first time in his career if he does not re-sign before his next bout. McGregor announced last week that his next UFC appearance will be his &#8220;Last Dance,&#8221; fueling speculation about retirement. That timeline now hinges on his recovery from surgery and the rehab process ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Reported via:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor is going under the knife to repair the torn ACL and meniscus he suffered at UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-842966","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\/842966","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=842966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}