{"id":1510,"date":"2023-06-22T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2023-06-23T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T17:06:40","slug":"charles-oliveira-facing-conor-mcgregor-before-the-belt-in-brazil-his-trainer-testifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/charles-oliveira-facing-conor-mcgregor-before-the-belt-in-brazil-his-trainer-testifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Oliveira: facing Conor McGregor before the belt in Brazil? His trainer testifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles Oliveira and his team would not say no to a fight against Conor McGregor before competing for the belt in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles Oliveira, current UFC No. 1 lightweight, is coming off a big 1st round TKO win over Beneil Dariush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to this success, the Brazilian has relaunched himself in the title race, and is in the running for the next title-shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, he could take revenge on the current champion, Islam Makhachev, who submitted him at UFC 280.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a recent interview, the head coach of Chute Boxe, Diego Lima, spoke about the continuation for his colt. A fight against Conor McGregor would be an option for Charles Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_99002\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gWnJIL-1ZZI?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWould we do another fight before a fight against Islam Makhachev? I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Diego Lima told MMA Fighting. \u201cPoirier refused a title-shot, fought McGregor and then fought for the belt. Looks like McGregor isn&#8217;t excited about fighting Chandler. Maybe he liked Charles&#8217; fight and would like to face him? Who knows ? \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe might do a lightweight fight with a guaranteed fight in Brazil next year. It&#8217;s a Fight Night this year (Sao Paulo in November), but it could be a numbered card early next year in Brazil. Charles Oliveira deserves a belt in Brazil. It is Charles&#8217; dream to fight in his country. And he deserves it. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conor McGregor hasn&#8217;t fought since he fractured his shin during his trilogy with Dustin Poirier in July 2021. The Irishman currently appears in &#8216;TUF 31&#8217; alongside Michael Chandler. While the two men were to face each other, it no longer seems up to date\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Oliveira and his team would not say no to a fight against Conor McGregor before competing for the belt in Brazil. Charles Oliveira, current UFC No. 1 lightweight, is coming off a big 1st round TKO win over Beneil Dariush. Thanks to this success, the Brazilian has relaunched himself in the title race, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}