UFC CEO, Dana White has beckoned lightweight contender, Michael Chandler to “sit around and wait” for a much-anticipated welterweight clash with former two-weight champion, Conor McGregor – amid continued uncertainty over the booking of a clash between the veteran duo.
Chandler, a former lightweight title challenger under the banner of the promotion, has already been sidelined since he featured on the main card of UFC 281 back in November of last year, suffering an eventual third round rear-naked choke submission loss to common-foe, Dustin Poirier.
For McGregor, the former undisputed lightweight and featherweight titleholder has yet to make his return to the Octagon since he fractured his left tibia and fibula in a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO loss to Poirier back in July 2021 in the pair’s heated trilogy rubber match.