CONOR MCGREGOR has been brutally told by Joe Rogan that his UFC career is over.
The Notorious was due to make his long-awaited UFC return last June but was forced out of his Sin City showdown with Michael Chandler due to injury.
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McGregor’s diehard followers are confident he will return to the cage – which he’s been away from for four years – in 2025.
But veteran UFC colour commentator Rogan doesn’t foresee the Irishman ever fighting again.
During a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub said of McGregor fighting agin: “The ship has sailed.
“It’s like, we want him to come back [but] it ain’t happening.”
Rogan candidly replied: “Well he knows too [that the ship has sailed].”
Rogan’s belief that McGregor will never fight again is in part down to the Dubliner’s antics outside the cage, in particular his partying.
The 57-year-old said of the former two-division champion: “I don’t know if Conor is ever gonna fight again.
“I don’t know the real details of [the civil assault case]. I know his version of it, and her version of it, and what played out in the court.
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“The reality is that guy’s partying, and he’s partying real hard, and he talked about it in the court case, he’s talking about cocaine.”
UFC President and CEO Dana White forecast an autumn return for the promotion’s poster boy last month.
But the veteran promoter seemingly now has serious doubts over the protracted Return of the Mac.
When asked about McGregor during the UFC Fight Night 250 post-fight press conference earlier this month, he replied: “Conor?
“Um… Not sure when Conor will be back”
McGregor hasn’t set foot inside the octagon since breaking his left leg in his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier in July 2021.
If he does ever fight again, his next outing will be his first since being found civilly liable for assaulting Nikita Hand at a Dublin Hotel in December 2018.
Mystic Mac – who was accused of “raping and battering” Ms Hand – has vowed to appeal the verdict of last November’s civil trial at Dublin’s High Court.
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