Compared to the previous months, the top scenario of the top Lightweight UFC was very clear – at UFC 262 this weekend, Michael Chandler and Charles Oliveira will compete for the Lightweight Championship, and the new champion will play the winner in the Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier 3 on July 10.
Setting up quite high expectations for himself, Michael Chandler expressed his belief in his new champion. And at that time, although Chandler was not afraid to confront both Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor, he still hoped McGregor would win to “make a bar” when the upper radio with the richest sports player in the world in 2021.
“I want to see Conor back,” Michael Chandler said at a press conference before UFC 262. “A famous star like Conor, lost, lost, tried to restore his style and win again. Nothing better than that. It would be a good story.”
“The boxer in me merely wanted to fight the winner in the Poirier vs. McGregor, but the businessman in me wanted a match with Conor. Of course, the premise of all those plans was that I had to show a good form on the night of the night of May 15.”
Michael Chandler and Charles Oliveira will confront the Main Event of the UFC 262 event, taking place on Sunday morning in Vietnam at Toyota Center, Houston, Texas.