UFC lightweight Michael Chandler expects his upcoming fight against former two-division champion Conor McGregor to be the biggest of the year, if not one of the biggest fights of all time. Chandler recently appeared on The MMA Hour to discuss the upcoming season The Ultimate Fighter, which will see him as coach opposite McGregor, and the magnitude of a comeback for “The Notorious.”
“If you look at the numbers, I think 2 million [buys], it’s not just a possibility, I think it’s very achievable and very attainable.
Michael Chandler Anticipates 2 Million PPV Buys For McGregor Fight
It’s hard for me to toot my own horn, but I think what I’ve created is a level of intrigue and mystique that when I show up on fight night and that cage door closes, all hell breaks loose and my foot is on the gas.
I haven’t seen a brake pedal at all since I signed with the organization. Honestly, since I started fighting. It’s just continued to build and build and build. So you look at why this fight got made, Conor knows it’s going to do big numbers.” It’s all a little surreal for Michael Chandler, who only joined the UFC three short years ago. “It is pretty crazy.
I remember being on the outside looking in and always seeing these huge stages and huge opportunities and huge things that are maybe passing me by. I’m very happy with my career and I’m very happy with the road that I took. I’m very happy with the patience that I showed. The strategery that myself, my management kind of put ourselves through every single big decision that we had to make.
But it is very fitting and very ironic that the Conor McGregor who came into the UFC and was constantly talking what was going on in his mind and how he manifested things, how he saw things, how he willed things into existence, and now we see the Conor who he is today and he made all that stuff happen for himself.
From welfare plumber to who Conor McGregor is now. I truly believe I’ve seen, not exactly like this happening, but stages like this happening, platforms like this happening and notoriety like this happening and blessings like this happening, since I wasn’t even signed with the organization.”
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