{"id":548480,"date":"2026-07-19T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/548480\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:48:10","slug":"dana-white-says-conor-mcgregor-has-to-do-some-soul-searching-if-he-eyes-ufc-comeback-after-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/548480\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Says Conor McGregor Has to Do Some ‘Soul-Searching’ if He Eyes UFC Comeback After Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC president Dana White doesn’t believe it’s a guarantee that Conor McGregor will fight again after injuring his knee at UFC 329 just seconds into his bout against Max Holloway.<\/p>\n

“McGregor has to have knee surgery. Then he’s gonna have to go through physical therapy and a doctor’s gonna have to give him a sign-off on when he can start training hard again. He’s got a lot of things to figure out in his head, in his life, before he starts thinking about boxing or UFC again,” White told TMZ Sports<\/a>. “It’s gonna be a long comeback for him if he decides that’s what he wants to do. He’s got a lot of soul-searching [to do], find that fire that he used to have, and we’ll see how that plays out.”<\/p>\n

White previously deflected away from questions about the potential for McGregor’s next fight or completing the Holloway trilogy, citing what will likely be a long injury layoff for the veteran fighter.<\/p>\n

“He is absolutely getting knee surgery, and everybody in this sport knows the timeline and how that all plays out,” he told reporters<\/a>. “So any McGregor questions or rematch questions don’t even make sense.”<\/p>\n

McGregor, 38, has won just one of his last five UFC fights. His brief dalliance against Holloway was his first appearance in the Octagon in five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC president Dana White doesn’t believe it’s a guarantee that Conor McGregor will fight again after injuring his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-548480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}