Conor McGregor has shed more light on the injury that forced him to call off his UFC 303 main event fight against Michael Chandler.
McGregor revealed a photo of a broken toe on his left foot and wrote in an Instagram post that he suffered the injury during a training session.
“We had a lapse in concentration and engaged in a training session without wearing the full protective gear, and I hit the toe off the elbow and broke the toe clean,” McGregor wrote.
“I couldn’t justify to my team, or fans, that I make the walk hindered again. That walk has been seen. This next walk has got to be, and it will be, 100% Conor McGregor. The fans deserve it and we are getting close.”
The 35-year-old has not fought since breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July of 2021. His only win since 2016 was a 2020 TKO of Donald Cerrone.
Fellow UFC fighter Makhachev Islam couldn’t resist but call out McGregor and poke fun at Chandler over the situation.
McGregor vs. Chandler was first officially announced back in April even though the pair had been slated to meet ever since coaching opposite one another on The Ultimate Fighter reality series.
Chandler, 38, has not fought since being submitted by Poirier at UFC 281 in 2022. The American has stayed consistent that he’d rather wait for this McGregor matchup to come to fruition as opposed to agreeing to face a different opponent.
Current light-heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, as he did ahead of April’s historic UFC 300, will step up on short notice to headline the event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Pereira will face former light-heavyweight titleholder Jiri Prochazka in a rematch of a UFC 295 bout. Pereira knocked out Prochazka in November when they headlined at Madison Square Garden.