McGregor has not competed in mixed martial arts since July 2021. He suffered a broken leg in a TKO loss to Dustin Poirier in his last Octagon apperance. McGregor has expressed interest in fighting at a proposed UFC event at the White House in 2026.

Conor McGregor has lost his appeal of a civil jury verdict in favor of a woman who claimed she was raped by the UFC fighter in Dublin, Ireland in December 2018.

After the scrap with one-time Bellator star Chandler was called off, it seemed as though McGregor would never make a return to the Octagon as he was occupied by his other business interests outside of the UFC, and a recent lengthy legal case in his native Ireland.