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Audie Attar, the supervisor for UFC giant title
Conor McGregor, acknowledged he is assured a trilogy fight towards Nate Diaz
will at final happen, however the timetable remains unclear.
Attar told TMZ Sports actions loads will depend
on the outcomes of Saturday evening’s UFC 264 predominant match, that can leer
a separate trilogy as McGregor takes on Dustin Poirier. If the Irish
fan accepted comes out on high, he’ll shift his focal point to gentle-weight
champion Charles Oliveira.
“I judge it’ll be the title fight
towards Charles Oliveira,” Attar acknowledged about what’s next for
McGregor. “Oliveria is right here, he is gonna be contemporary on the fight,
waiting to stare who he is gonna fight next.”
That acknowledged, the prolonged-awaited third
meeting with Diaz is still on the horizon, as nicely.
“The trilogy fight is gonna
happen. Conor publicly acknowledged it has to happen. And, I know each and each
opponents intend to construct it happen,” Attar told TMZ. “I judge it’s
factual gonna happen within the near future, factual no longer next, straight. He
desires the belt next.”
Loads of issues had been placed on the
serve burner on yarn of McGregor, who in overall fought two or three cases
a year early in his UFC career, has handiest entered the Octagon three
cases since a November 2016 secure over Eddie Alvarez.
His efficiency has moreover dipped with a
3-3 file in his most newest six bouts, along side losses to Khabib
Nurmagomedov and Poirier over his final three outings.
But McGregor, 32, is still one secure away
from a possible title shot and remains one in every of UFC’s high attracts. Even if
he loses Saturday, changing direction toward the trilogy bout with Diaz
would generate rather about a fondness.
Diaz gained the first matchup by
2d-spherical submission in March 2016, however McGregor avenged that
defeat with a victory by majority choice five months later. He then
beat Alvarez for the gentle-weight belt sooner than a protracted hiatus that
integrated a boxing match towards Floyd Mayweather Jr.
In the period in-between, McGregor defeated Poirier by
first-spherical knockout in September 2014, however the 32-year-old American
got right here out on high with a 2d-spherical TKO after they met in January.
The outlook for each and each opponents will
develop into extra determined based completely on whose hand is raised in victory at
T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas on Saturday evening.
