McGregor suffered broken toe before Chandler fight

Conor McGregor said a surgery toed was nan logic he had to retreat from his UFC comeback conflict against Michael Chandler successful Las Vegas.

McGregor, 35, was scheduled to conflict for nan first clip since breaking his limb successful July 2021 successful a welterweight bout against Chandler astatine UFC 303 connected 29 June.

The erstwhile two-weight champion confirmed he had picked up nan wounded successful nan days earlier a planned media arena was cancelled.

McGregor said connected Instagram connected Friday that nan setback was "absolutely gut wrenching to take" but added he will only request "a fewer weeks" to recover.

"We had a lapse successful attraction and engaged successful a training convention without wearing nan afloat protective cogwheel and I deed nan toed disconnected nan elbow and collapsed nan toed clean," explained nan Irishman.

"I couldn't warrant to my team, aliases fans, that I make nan locomotion hindered again. This adjacent locomotion has sewage to be, and it will be, 100 per cent Conor McGregor. The fans merit it and we are getting close.

"I will get this back. I've sewage to. I've sewage 2 fights near connected my contract."

McGregor is successful talks pinch nan UFC astir a statement hold arsenic his existent woody enters its last stages.

The erstwhile featherweight champion has an wide MMA grounds of 22 wins and six losses.

But he has fought conscionable 4 times since 2016 erstwhile he defeated Eddie Alvarez to go a two-weight UFC champion.