The scheduled UFC 303 matchup between Conor McGregor (22-6) and Michael Chandler (23-8) is among the most anticipated fights of 2024.
However the bout might get much more fascinating if the UFC takes the recommendation of former heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and provides a brand new division between light-weight (155 kilos) and welterweight (170 kilos) and makes the McGregor-Chandler battle for the inaugural belt.
“I imagine in the event that they’re going to do a 165-pound division, it ought to have a reputation connected to the load class that’s so huge it attracts folks’s consideration, Conor McGregor being that identify,” Cormier mentioned on ESPN’s “Good Man/Dangerous Man.” “It’s solely 10 kilos heavier than 155, so let’s name it the tremendous light-weight division.”