{"id":39987,"date":"2025-08-01T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39987\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:41:09","slug":"conor-mcgregor-registers-first-official-ufc-drug-test-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39987\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor registers first official UFC drug test of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor<\/a> is officially back and undergoing drug tests ahead of a potential comeback.<\/p>\n

According to the official UFC Anti-Doping website<\/a>, as of Aug. 1, McGregor has registered his first test session of 2025. The test was first noted by Jed I. Goodman.<\/p>\n

This marks McGregor\u2019s first test since 2024 when he was tested 11 times, primarily in preparation for a scheduled bout against Michael Chandler<\/a> at UFC 303<\/a> that was to take place in June 2024. McGregor ended up withdrawing from that bout due to a toe injury.<\/p>\n

The news comes on the heels of McGregor stating he was back in the UFC drug-testing pool<\/a> earlier this week. He shared images to social media of himself apparently getting tested, writing, \u201cI gave my first blood test that is what the plaster is on my shoulder. I am ECSTATIC! I\u2019m in SHAPE!\u201d<\/p>\n

McGregor, 37, has expressed interest in competing on a potential UFC White House event, which has been proposed by President Donald Trump and UFC CEO Dana White<\/a> in the hopes it can be put together for July 2026, when the United States commemorates its 250th Independence Day celebration.<\/p>\n

Should McGregor make a comeback on that date, it will mark five years since his most recent appearance. McGregor was sidelined for a lengthy period of time after breaking his leg in a trilogy bout with rival Dustin Poirier<\/a> at UFC 264<\/a> in July 2021 and is yet to come close to a return to action outside of the cancelled UFC 303 booking.<\/p>\n

While McGregor has continued to find success in ventures outside of the UFC, including as part-owner of BKFC and with a starring role in the 2024 remake of Road House, he has also further tarnished his reputation with his ongoing legal troubles. Most recently, McGregor was denied an appeal in a civil case in which he was found liable for sexual assault<\/a> in an incident in his native Dublin, Ireland in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor is officially back and undergoing drug tests ahead of a potential comeback. According to the official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,13515,7967,641,7792,700,701,13516,638,2177,1170,28876,82,211,640,702],"class_list":["post-39987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conor","tag-drug","tag-fighting","tag-first","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-mcgregor","tag-mma","tag-of","tag-official","tag-registers","tag-sports","tag-test","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}