63 days…. Plotting with @machinegunkelly
#ufc303 pic.twitter.com/nDpX3oGl0h— Michael Chandler (@MikeChandlerMMA)
April 28, 2024
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.
