Michael Chandler<\/a> at UFC Freedom 250 on June 14, stopping the American via TKO in the very first round of their lightweight clash.<\/p>\nWell, Chandler, who’s since hinted at a move to welterweight, had been booked to fight Conor McGregor in a welterweight matchup at UFC 303 in June 2024. Nevertheless, McGregor sustained a toe injury and pulled out. Their fight was initially postponed and then ended up being discarded altogether.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Presently, former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor is scheduled to take on former UFC featherweight champ and ex-BMF titlist Max Holloway. Their welterweight match will headline UFC 329 in Las Vegas on July 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’ll be a rematch of their 2013 featherweight matchup, which witnessed McGregor defeat Holloway via unanimous decision despite suffering a knee injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mauricio Ruffy suggests he’ll serve as backup fighter for Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway rematch that headlines UFC 329<\/p>\n
Taking to his official Instagram account, Mauricio Ruffy has put forth a post, comprising the following statement, “Tomorrow Monday I will be traveling to Las Vegas. If you need me, I’ll be ready!”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also, the video in his post saw him speaking about possibly serving as the backup fighter for Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway at UFC 329.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The consensus is that the rising lightweight (155-pound) star has thereby implied that he’ll be ready as the backup\/replacement fighter for the UFC 329 welterweight (170-pound) headliner, although it’ll be in a division higher than what he currently competes in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ruffy, in his video, stated, “Hey, guys, you know I made myself available for the Conor McGregor fight and Max Holloway. I’m going on a trip to Las Vegas.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
A representative of the reputed Fighting Nerds gym, Ruffy has often been compared to McGregor, owing to their innovative striking techniques. The 30-year-old, for his part, emphasized that he’s taken good care of himself since his latest fight. He further noted that he’s been made to train halfway through his vacation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moreover, Ruffy stepped on the weighing scale and noted that he weighed around 84 kg, adding that he’d have to cut 7 kg to make the welterweight limit. Ruffy stated:<\/p>\n
“We are going to travel now to Vegas on Monday. And let’s see what happens. Me against Conor McGregor, I believe it would be a very good fight. I think a fight I would have made easier by the fact of rhythm and everything else, right? Always having the dangers of the fight.”<\/p>\n
He added, “But I believe it would be a really cool fight against Max Holloway. And I believe in my knockout power. He’s a guy who doesn’t — seeks to play forward there all the time. But I go there to define the fights, and I don’t miss my chances. It would be really cool to see this fight happen. I’m going. Let’s see what happens. Ok, I will inform you all. Let’s go.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, the UFC, as of this time, hasn’t officially announced Ruffy as the backup fighter for McGregor vs. Holloway 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Watch Mauricio Ruffy’s Instagram post featuring his announcement regarding the Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway rematch below:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Ruffy has made a major announcement ahead of the highly anticipated rematch between Conor McGregor and Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,639,641,67292,1698,638,82,640,250163],"class_list":["post-782766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-mauricio-ruffy","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-329-mcgregor-vs-holloway-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782766","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=782766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}