Veteran UFC color-commentator, Joe Rogan has solid doubt on Conor McGregor’s skill to comply with by way of on a UFC return promise, significantly after the Dublin striker admitted to cocaine use throughout his current civil case within the Excessive Court docket final month.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight champion below the banner of the promotion, has but to characteristic within the Octagon since 2021, the place he suffered a brutal first spherical fracture of his left tibia and fibula, leading to a health care provider’s stoppage TKO loss to bitter-rival, Dustin Poirier.
And booked to return at UFC 303 in June, Conor McGregor was slated to headline the Worldwide Battle Week occasion in opposition to Michael Chandler on the welterweight restrict, till a fractured toe dominated the 36-year-old striker from his hiatus-snapping return.
Final month as well, McGregor was discovered civilly responsible for assault within the Excessive Court docket, after plaintiff, Nikita Hand alleged the blended martial arts star had raped her throughout an incident on the Beacon Resort in December 2018.
Joe Rogan has reservations a couple of UFC return for Conor McGregor
And through his cross examination, McGregor admitted to cocaine use on the night time of the alleged incident. And in keeping with Rogan, the Crumlin native’s admitance to leisure drug use makes a return to energetic competitors within the Octagon all of the extra unlikely.
I don’t know if Conor’s ever going to combat once more,” Joe Rogan mentioned on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Expertise. “I know his version of it, and her (Nikita Hand’s) version of it, and what played out in the court, but the reality is that guy’s partying, and he’s partying real hard, and he talked about it in the court case. He was talking about cocaine. That was the whole thing: ‘We were doing cocaine, we were f*cking.’ He likes coke.”
“We’ve all seen Conor get beat up and knocked out,” Rogan defined. “We’ve seen Conor’s sparring footage. He’s sparring pro boxers, he’s sparring elite fighters. You’re getting hit in the head a lot. A lot of fighters, especially toward the end of their careers, turn to drugs. There’s probably a constant state of discomfort that they live in where their dopamine levels are all f*cked up, their cortisol levels are f*cked up. You’re not supposed to get punched in the head 1000 times a year. It’s just not supposed to happen, and that’s the reality of consistent training.”
