Michael Chandler is seemingly playing mind games with Conor McGregor ahead of their upcoming fight.
Chandler’s long-awaited fight against McGregor is slated to headline UFC 303 on June 29 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “Iron” recently posted a picture with musician Machine Gun Kelly (also known as Colson Baker), who has history with McGregor.
“Plotting with [Machine Gun Kelly],” Chandler wrote on social media.
McGregor and “MGK” got into an altercation at the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet at Barclays Center in Brooklyn in September 2021. Multiple videos showed “Notorious” lunging at the rapper and also throwing a drink at him. The origin of the altercation remains a mystery to this day, as both parties have chosen not to divulge much on the matter.
Initial reports stated that McGregor had asked for a picture with Baker after allegedly messaging MGK’s girlfriend, Megan Fox. However, McGregor’s spokesperson, Karen Kessler, denied this report while also claiming that the Irishman wasn’t the instigator.
McGregor briefly reignited his beef with MGK last year, commenting of a video of the musician skateboarding.
"Watch out guys we got a badass over here,” McGregor wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
McGregor will be returning to the Octagon for the first time since breaking his leg in a trilogy loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. Meanwhile, Chandler also hasn’t fought since a submission loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 281 in November 2022.
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