Fans have labelled UFC legend Conor McGregor as "incredibly weird" for shadowboxing behind a bar.
McGregor is currently preparing for his pencilled-in return against Michael Chandler at UFC 296 on December 16 in Las Vegas. The fight is yet to be officially announced, but McGregor and Chandler have seemingly confirmed the date with cryptic tweets in recent days. Fans are convinced McGregor's UFC return will be delayed until next year because of a lack of training footage and several videos on his social media accounts.
The former two-weight world champion recently visited a new Irish bar, Bartley Dunnes, in New York City to pour the first ever pint of his Forged Irish Stout in the US. A clip of McGregor shadowboxing behind the bar left fans baffled as one user wrote: "Conor is acting incredibly weird recently but let’s be honest, he no longer needs to fight. He’s made his money."
A second comment read: "He's always doing this roll and hook shadow boxing move to show off and he's never even used that shot in his life" with a third adding: "The guy can't win at anything anymore, the noise in his head must be unbearable."
"Chandler should be a good matchup for Conor at this stage as he would likely stand and bang instead of using his wrestling. But seeing Conor clowning while Chandler busts his a** off in the gym, I'm leaning over Chandler beating him," a fourth user added. "It's just sad watching him now, after he was the reason most people started to watch UFC," a final comment read.
McGregor lashed out at Chandler in a now-deleted tweet spree as he labelled him an "idiot sandwich" and vowed to "torture him" when they meet in the cage. Chandler responded to McGregor's belittling tweets by mocking the size of his "baby hands" in comparison to his newfound muscle mass.
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UFC president Dana White has confirmed that McGregor is yet to re-enter the USADA testing pool. All UFC fighters are required to complete six months of drug testing before they are eligible to fight, meaning that McGregor would be unable to fight before the end of the year unless he is granted an exemption.
"He's not [in the pool]," White told TSN of McGregor's USADA status. "We’ll see how that plays out… I don’t talk about s*** until s*** happens. To sit here and think hypothetically how a million different things could happen, no idea. UFC 300 isn’t even on my mind right now. The Conor thing, who the hell knows how that’s gonna play out? Who cares what USADA says? We’ll see what happens when it happens. So, I don’t know."
