Conor McGregor must serve a six-month medical suspension after he was knocked out by Dustin Poirier. McGregor was stopped in the second round following a relentless onslaught from his rival at UFC 257 in Abu Dhabi.
The Irishman was issued with a mandatory 45-day suspension for his defeat and a 180-day suspension due to the leg injury he suffered.
He can, however, be cleared earlier by a doctor with a negative X-Ray of his tibia/fibula. And McGregor's coach John Kavanagh has already claimed the former two-weight world champion completed a workout on Monday and wants a rematch with Poirier in May. "He's already harassing everybody to get the rematch; he'd love the rematch and I don't think Dustin is against that," Kavanagh told ESPN.
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