Conor McGregor will return in opposition to Max Holloway in a welterweight bout at UFC 329 on July 11 in Las Vegas.
The 37-year-old has not fought since breaking his leg in a struggle in opposition to Dustin Poirier in 2021 and has confronted a sequence of authorized points over the past eight years.
The struggle in opposition to Holloway will probably be a rematch of the 2013 featherweight bout, which McGregor gained on factors.
McGregor was scheduled to return for a struggle in opposition to Michael Chandler in July 2024, however withdrew attributable to a toe harm.
The Irishman burst onto the MMA scene in 2013 and have become the primary UFC fighter to carry two championship belts in 2016 with a win over Eddie Alvarez for the light-weight title. He gained the featherweight title a 12 months earlier with a knockout of Jose Aldo.
McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather Jr in a boxing match in 2017 throughout a two-year hiatus from the UFC, however has misplaced three of his final 4 fights.
In July 2025, McGregor misplaced his enchantment of a civil jury’s discovering in favour of Dublin lady Nikita Hand, who had accused him of rape.
McGregor misplaced his enchantment on all 5 grounds that the case was taken. The jury discovered McGregor, who instructed the courtroom he had consensual intercourse with Ms Hand, civilly answerable for assault.
Final 12 months, McGregor accepted an 18-month ban after lacking three medicine assessments inside a 12-month interval in 2024. The ban resulted in March.
