'One blunder after another': Fans react to Conor McGregor's 18-month suspension
08/10/2025 15:00
The strange saga of Conor McGregor continues.
The biggest star in MMA, and one of the sport's most incendiary figures, McGregor is no stranger to controversy, as "Notorious" has lived up to his name over the past few years with myriad legal issues. But despite his numerous issues outside the cage, McGregor has rarely had any issues relating to his actual fights. Until now.
On Tuesday, news broke that McGregor had received an 18-month suspension from Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD) — the in-house agency that runs the UFC's anti-doping program — after repeated failures to submit testing samples as required by athletes under contract with the promotion. The suspension stems from failed sample collections in 2024 and McGregor's failure to properly provide his whereabouts to the testing agency.
Fortunately for McGregor, the suspension is retroactive to his most recent incident, September 2024, and thus he is eligible to return to action in March 2026, a few months before his stated return target of the UFC White House card.
Still, the incident is yet another bad look for McGregor, who has not competed in over four years, and the MMA community reacted as such, ripping McGregor and the UFC for this latest fiasco.
Check out your reactions to McGregor's latest misstep below.
