MMA News Roundup: Conor McGregor Announced Heartwarming Family News; Max Holloway Intends to Leave Featherweight; Conor McGregor Struggling to Meet USADA Deadline

A number of MMA fans often find themselves distanced from the world of their beloved sports due to today’s strict time constraints. We are aware of this gap, and our MMA news roundup is an effort to provide all such fans with their required daily dosage of MMA-related incidents. Like every day, we are back with one more edition to provide you with an overview of a few noteworthy MMA world incidents from the last 24 hours.

Today’s edition will contain a few noteworthy updates about the famed UFC icon, Conor McGregor. Further, we’ll also take a look at the noted UFC Featherweight, Max Holloway’s recent revelation, to wrap things up for the day.

Conor McGregor has a new family member on the way

Lately, the noted UFC icon Conor McGregor announced a piece of enthralling news. After 15 years of togetherness, McGregor and his fiance Dee Devlin now are now preparing to welcome a new member of their family of five. The Irishman revealed that this fourth child was on the way in a recent interview.

McGregor and Devlin currently are parents to three kids, Conor Jr., Croia Mairhead, and Rian, who are 6, 4, and 2 years old respectively. A lot of UFC fans might label McGregor as a pretty responsible father.

In his interview, McGregor expressed his pleasure, stating, “I have three children. I have got two boys and a girl. My older son, Conor Jr is 6. My daughter Croia aged 4 and my younger son Rian has just turned 2. So things are going well. We’ve also got another one on the way.”

Looking at how happily living the McGregors are, it will probably be more complete than ever with the arrival of his fourth child. If you would like to congratulate him personally, you can always do it through Twitter or Instagram.

Max Holloway revealed his intentions of leaving the UFC Featherweight division

After a career spanning more than a decade in mostly the same weight class, the famed former UFC Featherweight king, Max Holloway, recently revealed his wish to move up in weight. Holloway was a formidable force in the Featherweight division, with his latest victory coming against the touted Arnold Allen. This UFC Kansas City victory was also Allen’s first loss in his professional MMA career.

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Recently, ‘Blessed’ appeared on Ariel Helwani’s noted podcast, ‘The MMA Hour’ where he revealed this wish. Holloway iterated, “We’ll just see the way of the direction. Who knows? We saw that fun ‘BMF’ belt with Gaethje and Poirier. Me and Poirier for the third time, I’d love, and people keep harassing me about Gaethje anyways. At the end of the day, that would be fun at ’55. I know ’55 there’s a lot of fun fights for me. Maybe Oliveira II, and of course, I never got to finish the thing with Khabib, so Islam’s there so that’d be a great thing.”

It might be said that staying in the same division for such a long time might have exhausted Holloway. Also, looking at the current caliber of opponents in Lightweight, it’s apparent that Holloway also wants to see himself among them. How do you think this decision from ‘Blessed’ might turn out?

Conor McGregor might struggle to meet USADA’s deadlines of stepping into the testing pool

The USADA gave out the deadline for all those athletes who wanted to compete inside the octagon this year. But the noted UFC star, Conor McGregor, might find it difficult to adhere to it. Despite a huge chunk of UFC fans awaiting McGregor’s return to the octagon this year, it seems that they might be subjected to further disappointment only.

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Recently, the USADA revealed that all athletes would need to get enlisted themselves in their testing pool by 16 May, 2023, failing which they won’t be allowed to compete inside the octagon this year. This announcement might come as a shock to Dana White and UFC fans. McGregor only has a day and a few hours more to get himself enlisted inside the USADA testing pool. But as of now, he looks far from ready.

Hence, the next few hours will give us a clear idea about whether McGregor would be stepping into the UFC octagon this year or not. Let us know your thoughts on this.