UFC: Conor McGregor’s manager says ‘talks progressing’ for Donald Cerrone comeback fight on January 18
- Audie Attar says he hopes an announcement could happen ‘in the coming weeks’
- ‘We’ve met them and are in close communication,’ Attar confirms
Conor McGregor is plotting a return to the UFC’s Octagon on January 18 of the new year. The widespread expectation is that the former two-division champ will be welcomed back by popular lightweight gunslinger Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone.
This McGregor-Cerrone bout is still not official, but McGregor’s manager Audie Attar says negotiations are underway.
“I would say that talks have been progressing,” Attar told the Post when asked about the rumoured match-up. “We’ve met them, we’re in close communication with them. I would hope that an announcement could happen in the coming weeks, but at the end of the day, it’s still a work in progress.”
McGregor has not stepped foot in the Octagon since he was defeated by UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in October of 2018. While many members of the combat sports community speculated that this loss would spell the end of the Irishman’s fighting career, Attar never doubted a comeback was in the cards.
“I always knew he wasn’t going to end on that note,” he said.