Conor McGregor arrives in Las Vegas to coach ‘The Ultimate Fighter 31′

Conor McGregor has touched down in Las Vegas and is able to start filming the upcoming season of “The Final Fighter.”

Former two-division UFC champion McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) will coach a workforce of males’s bantamweights and lightweights reverse former UFC light-weight title challenger Michael Chandler.

Try video of McGregor arriving on the UFC Apex beneath (by way of Instagram):

Fighters and alternates for ‘TUF 31’ have been in Las Vegas since final Tuesday, awaiting McGregor’s arrival. Picks have been made and fighters who made the minimize for the present needed to flip over their telephones after they had been knowledgeable.

Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) can also be prepared along with his workforce of coaches, which incorporates former UFC mild heavyweight and present Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader.

Retaining with ‘TUF’ custom, McGregor and Chandler are anticipated to combat on the conclusion of the present, though no particular particulars in regards to the matchup have been finalized.

McGregor, 34, was final in motion at UFC 264 in July 2021 in a trilogy bout towards Dustin Poirier. The combat was stopped within the first spherical after McGregor broke his ankle, an harm he has been recovering from since. McGregor famously turned the undisputed featherweight champion at UFC 194, when he knocked out Jose Aldo in simply 13 seconds. Lower than a 12 months later, he stopped Eddie Alvarez within the second spherical to win the light-weight title, changing into a two-division champion.

The upcoming season of TUF might be McGregor’s second stint as a coach on the present. In 2015, he coached reverse UFC Corridor of Famer Urijah Faber on Season 22 of the fact sequence.

Chandler, 36, joined the UFC in 2021 after a future below the Bellator banner. Since his arrival, he has fought 5 instances, together with a shot on the light-weight title towards Charles Oliveira. Identified for his thrilling, hard-hitting type, Chandler has taken dwelling 4 bonuses for his performances contained in the octagon.