Former two-weight UFC champion, Conor McGregor has opened as the slightest of betting favorites to return to the winner’s enclosure in a potential fight with surging lightweight favorite, Dan Hooker — with the two linked to a future showdown as soon as the new year.
McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight and featherweight champion under the banner of the UFC, has been out of action for the last three years, most recently fracturing his left tibia and fibula in a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO loss to common-foe, Dustin Poirier at UFC 264.
Himself in the midst of an impressive run of three straight wins, City Kickboxing staple, Hooker most recently landed a high-profile decision win over former two-division KSW champion, Mateusz Gamrot back in August on the main card of UFC 305.