Michael Chandler may have finally landed a fight with Conor McGregor.
Chandler has posted a series of strange messages on Threads, seemingly confirming a date for a fight with the Irishman.
McGregor vs Chandler was one of the most talked about fights last year.
Both men coached alongside one another on season 31 of The Ultimate Fighter in 2023, and were scheduled to meet in the main event of UFC 303 last June.
However, the headliner fight for the Las Vegas was cancelled after McGregor injured his toe in training, and Alex Pereira wound up fighting Jiri Prochazka instead.
Chandler has since shared the Octagon with Charles Oliveira and Paddy Pimblett, but has now teased MMA fans that a fight with McGregor could be next.
The 39-year-old American shared two posts via Threads on Thursday.
“Conor!!!!!” he said, before adding what could be the potential date for the pair’s meeting: “1/24/26.”
MMA fans had a mixed response to Chandler’s cryptic message.
One took to X and said: “That’s just a lie.”
While another added: “This is just sad at this point.”
A third wrote: “You both are irrelevant now.”
Chandler coached against McGregor on The Ultimate FighterGETTY They were set to headline UFC 303 in June last year, but McGregor pulled outGetty The Irishman hurt his toe while sparring and pulled out of the fightChandler’s words come just a matter of weeks after McGregor teased his return with a direct message to UFC CEO Dana White on Instagram.
“Call that big butt nurse,” McGregor wrote, tagging White and the UFC’s parent company TKO Group Holdings in a bid to re-join the organisation’s testing pool and return to action.
He then called for his boss to ‘get this show started’ in a separate message.
McGregor hasn’t fought since breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier in the summer of 2021.
Chandler, meanwhile, was out of action for two years between November 2022 and November 2024 as he waited to fight McGregor.
‘Iron Mike’ suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Oliveira at UFC 309 in November, before he was dominated by Pimblett at UFC 314 last month.
Chandler has teased MMA fans with a McGregor fight on ThreadsmikechandlermmaUFC lightweight rankings
McGregor's potential opponents
Islam Makhachev (c) Chales Oliveira Justin Gaethje Max Holloway Dustin Poirier Dan Hooker Mateusz Gamrot Paddy Pimblett Beneil Dariush Renato Moicano Rafael Fiziev Michael Chandler Benoit Saint Denis Grant Dawson Joel AlvarezHe has suffered five defeats in his last six bouts and may just have one fight left in him.
Before he lost to Pimblett, Chandler had been assertive that McGregor can only fight him if the Irishman made a return to MMA.
He has never denied that he still wants to fight McGregor, who has also teased the bout numerous times since it was cancelled.
McGregor has two fights remaining on his contract with the UFC.
He would need to swing momentum in his favour if he made a return, having stepped away from the sport after consecutive defeats to Poirier.
In fact, ‘The Notorious’ has only one victory in his last four UFC fights, stopping Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone in 40 seconds on his return to MMA after losing a famous battle to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018.
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