Michael Chandler hasn’t fought in over a year now as he continues to sit out waiting for his expected fight against Conor McGregor to be made official, but after so many delays he’s starting to think that his TUF coaching rival is looking for a way out of the match-up in favor of taking on an easier opponent instead.
“I think right now he’s trying to wait me out,” Chandler said on Steve-O’s podcast. “I mean, because if you were him, would you want to wait as long as possible for the guy like me, who’s a real fighter, who wants to be in there, who wants to compete so that I say, ‘Screw it, I’m going to go fight someone else,’ and then he can go fight an easier fight, Nate Diaz. He can go fight an easier fight, Tony Ferguson. He can go find a much easier fight than fighting me.”
That being said, Chandler feels that if McGregor was to duck out of fighting him at this stage then it would be a hammer-blow to the superstar’s reputation.
“It looks really bad on everyone’s part if Conor comes back and doesn’t fight me after ‘The Ultimate Fighter,’” Chandler said. “So, Conor can try to come back and act like he runs the show and say, ‘I want to fight this guy, I want to fight that guy,’ which if I was in his position, if I was his manager, I would be trying to do the same thing. Because fighting me is not the smartest fight.”
