Former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion Conor McGregor will make his return to the UFC octagon on 11 July in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White has announced. The Irishman will face Hawaii's Max Holloway in the main event and lightweight/welterweight division.
Photograph: Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCPhotograph: Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCDana White announces McGregor’s return for UFC 329The former two-weight mixed martial arts world championwill make his return to the UFC octagon on 11 July in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White has announced.
The Irishman, who has not fought since breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier in July 2021, will face Hawaii’s Max Holloway in the main event at329 in the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with the contest taking place at lightweight/welterweight. With his flashy striking style and penchant for entertaining and offensive trash-talk, McGregor debuted with the promotion in 2013 and quickly became the biggest star in the sport, adding the UFC lightweight title to his featherweight crown in 2016 to become the first athlete to hold two UFC belts simultaneously.
McGregor’s brash manner proved a huge hit with fans around the world, and he was instrumental in helping the sport of, which was once famously derided by the US senator John McCain as “human cockfighting”, to gain mainstream acceptance. A boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr in August 2017 made the Irishman tens of millions of dollars, but he has only fought four times in MMA since beating Eddie Alvarez to claim the lightweight crown on 12 November 2016, losing three of those bouts.
McGregor, 37, was slated to meet the former Bellator champion Michael Chandler in June 2024, but that was cancelled after he suffered a broken toe in training. Later that year a jury in an Irish civil court found him liable in a civil rape case brought by a woman in Dublin after an incident in 2018.
In October 2025, he accepted an 18-month ban for “whereabouts failures” after he missed three attempts by Combat Sports Anti-Doping to collect biological samples from him in 2024. The ban was back-dated and expired in March. If McGregor does fight Holloway on 11 July, it will be five years and one day since his broken leg against Poirier.
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