While assuring fans he has yet to confirm a mooted pairing between Conor McGregor and Dan Hooker, UFC CEO, Dana White has revealed he likes the idea of a pairing between the two strikers, describing a potential matchup as a “great fight.
McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight champion and featherweight gold holder under the banner of the promotion, has been sidelined since he fractured his left tibia and fibula in a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO defeat to common-foe, Dustin Poirier over three years ago.
And set to return at UFC 303 back in June atop an International Fight Week card, Conor McGregor withdrew from a welterweight pairing with another would-be common-opponent, Michael Chandler, citing a fractured toe just weeks from the pairing.