{"id":3654,"date":"2024-06-14T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2024-06-14T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:11:24","slug":"conor-mcgregor-injury-forces-dana-white-to-call-up-alex-pereira-vs-jiri-prochazka-2-to-save-ufc-303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/conor-mcgregor-injury-forces-dana-white-to-call-up-alex-pereira-vs-jiri-prochazka-2-to-save-ufc-303\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor injury forces Dana White to call up Alex Pereira vs. Jiri Prochazka 2 to save UFC 303"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC President Dana White announced on Thursday night that Conor McGregor has been ruled out of UFC 303 on June 29 because of injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"rtl\">McGregor injury puts Alex Pereira in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC303?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC303<\/a> main event<\/p>\n<p>\u0625\u0635\u0627\u0628\u0629 \u0643\u0648\u0646\u0648\u0631 \u0645\u0643\u062c\u0631\u064a\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c UFC 303 \u0628\u0633\u0628\u0628 \u0625\u0635\u0627\u0628\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062f\u0631\u064a\u0628 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YMkEocmVgY\">pic.twitter.com\/YMkEocmVgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1801706674606231571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McGregor hasn\u2019t fought in the UFC since July 2021, when he sustaind a leg injury that many viewed as career-threatening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead of McGregor, UFC will offer light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, who will put his title on the line to fight Jiri Prochazka as the main event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conor McGregor is officially out of UFC 303! The McGregor vs Chandler fight has been called off for UFC 303, which will now be main-evented by a rematch between Alex Pereira vs. Jiri Prochaszka.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Pereira will defend his light heavyweight title against Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC303?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC303<\/a> in Las Vegas on June 29, Dana White announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7NPIUuOZOB\">pic.twitter.com\/7NPIUuOZOB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1801444765776466085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McGregor\u2019s injury was not disclosed, and UFC wouldn\u2019t say when it happened. However, it\u2019s not expected to be a long-term setback, according to reports, and could be rebooked for later in the year. McGregor is considered the UFC\u2019s top drawing card.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cConor McGregor is out of 303 vs. Michael Chandler with an injury\u2026The new main event is Alex Pereira\u2026.he is facing former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jiri Prochazka.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UFC 303 International Fight Week June 29th <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P47PSsKcg0\">pic.twitter.com\/P47PSsKcg0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; danawhite (@danawhite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite\/status\/1801444064694571073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White announced on Thursday night that Conor McGregor has been ruled out of UFC 303 on June 29 because of injury. McGregor injury puts Alex Pereira in #UFC303 main event \u0625\u0635\u0627\u0628\u0629 \u0643\u0648\u0646\u0648\u0631 \u0645\u0643\u062c\u0631\u064a\u062c\u0648\u0631 \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c UFC 303 \u0628\u0633\u0628\u0628 \u0625\u0635\u0627\u0628\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062f\u0631\u064a\u0628 pic.twitter.com\/YMkEocmVgY &mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) June 14, 2024 McGregor hasn\u2019t fought in the UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,86,77,21,91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-mma-video","9":"category-news","10":"category-ufc-news","11":"category-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654"}],"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=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}