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Paul Felder isn’t sold on Conor McGregor fighting again.<\/p>\n

McGregor has not fought since UFC 264 in July of 2021 when he had his trilogy match against Dustin Poirier<\/a>. At the end of the first round, McGregor broke his leg and since then he has been rehabbing it. Although he hasn’t fought in a year-and-a-half, McGregor has said he will return<\/a>, which Felder isn’t sure of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019ll always matter, as long as he\u2019s at least teasing the idea of a return but that\u2019s what worries me,\u201d Felder explained on The Fighter vs. The Writer<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s so busy. He\u2019s filming\u00a0Road House<\/em> and all that kind of stuff. I don\u2019t know if that is over or not. It\u2019s tough. You\u2019re on yachts. You\u2019ve got mansions. You\u2019ve got all this stuff. You\u2019ve got businesses that you\u2019re working on. You\u2019re coming back from a huge injury. You take yourself out of the USADA testing pool. You\u2019ve got to wait to get back in it. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re going to see him in 2023. To be completely honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Conor McGregor does decide to come back and fight again, Paul Felder doesn’t think it will go well.<\/p>\n

\"Conor<\/p>\n

According to Felder, he thinks the division – and the sport to some degree – has passed McGregor by badly, which showed in his fights against Poirier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t mean this in any disrespect, but I do think the division is just passing him by badly,\u201d Felder said. \u201cI think it\u2019s passing a lot of us. I\u2019m older than him by a few years at least but this next generation of fighters, if you\u2019re not in there mixing it up with them and on the mats with those types of dudes every day \u2014 I know he\u2019s training \u2014 but he\u2019s going to have to definitely hope for fights like Michael Chandler, who\u2019s a beast but those are the guys you can still compete with. You don\u2019t want to be fighting Arman Tsarukyan or [Mateusz] Gamrot or these young, hungry absolute maniacs that are working their way up the division.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you agree with Paul Felder that the lightweight division has passed Conor McGregor by?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Felder isn’t sold on Conor McGregor fighting again. McGregor has not fought since UFC 264 in July of 2021 when he had his trilogy match against Dustin Poirier. At the end of the first round, McGregor broke his leg and since then he has been rehabbing it. Although he hasn’t fought in a year-and-a-half, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":279565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,10486,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPaul Felder uncertain if Conor McGregor fights in 2023, claims the lightweight division is "passing him by badly" | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paul Felder isn't sold on Conor McGregor fighting again but if he does, Felder doesn't think it will go well for the Irishman.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paul-felder-uncertain-if-conor-mcgregor-fights-in-2023-claims-the-lightweight-division-is-passing-him-by-badly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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