UFC 306 results, Chandler moves on from McGregor

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This week’s panel of Farah Hannoun, Mike Bohn and Danny Segura will be part of host “Beautiful” George Garcia stay at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) to debate and debate the next subjects:

• UFC 306 is within the books, and each headlining champions misplaced their titles. Sean O’Malley and Alexa Grasso misplaced dominant unanimous choices to Merab Dvalishvili and Valentina Shevchenko, respectively. Past that, a number of fighters had breakthrough performances, together with Diego Lopes, who badly battered former two-time UFC title challenger Brian Ortega. We’ll unpack the UFC’s debut at Sphere and all of the technical magic that got here with it.
• The primary occasion for the UFC’s return to Madison Sq. Backyard in November was finally announced: a heavyweight title struggle between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic was made official by the promotion. Accompanying Jones-Miocic at UFC 309, a light-weight bout pitting Charles Oliveira towards Michael Chandler was additionally announced. We break down each matchups and focus on what’s at stake.
• Lastly, with Chandler combating Oliveira, this leaves the query: What’s going to occur with Conor McGregor? McGregor and Chandler have been linked to struggle for greater than a yr, and but that struggle by no means got here to fruition, regardless of a failed reserving and the 2 collaborating on final yr’s season of “The Final Fighter.” McGregor reacted to the news and stated that he’s been prepared, however feels he’s been stored “out of the loop.” What’s going on? We focus on.