As Conor McGregor recovers from a horrific and bizarre broken leg suffered in his trilogy match defeat to Dustin Poirier, former UFC fighter Mark Weir says we shouldn't rule the Irishman out of a successful return to MMA. But, for Weir, McGregor could recover peak form if he centres his mind on the cage and if he is prepared to build up to mixing in the elite class when he's fit again. "But with the layoff, he didn't really have a warm-up fight. People reckon the Donald Cerrone fight was a warm-up fight, but that wasn't a good warm-up fight. But although McGregor doubled down on trash-talking this time around, Weir suspects that bellicose persona may have been overly forced.

Source: Sky sports July 13, 2021 12:00 UTC