{"id":115650,"date":"2025-05-20T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115650\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:09:08","slug":"ksi-reveals-conor-mcgregor-turned-down-boxing-match-against-him-hes-all-over-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115650\/","title":{"rendered":"KSI reveals Conor McGregor turned down boxing match against him: \u2018He\u2019s all over the place\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

KSI<\/a> is no stranger to setting up marquee boxing matches but he thought he was nearing a deal for perhaps the biggest fight in the sport with hopes that he would welcome Conor McGregor<\/a> back to the ring.<\/p>\n

The social influencer turned combat sports enthusiast was trying to set up the fight against McGregor at Alcatraz Island near San Francisco but ultimately the Irish superstar passed on the opportunity. McGregor previously addressed the opportunity without naming KSI as the opponent when he addressed his potential return to action back in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy with what I\u2019ve done,\u201d McGregor said. \u201cThere was an opportunity or a deal, we\u2019ll say, to fight in Alcatraz only recent. There\u2019s an event going on in Alcatraz in I believe June. And they came to me and it wasn\u2019t my worth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing the proposed matchup, KSI claims he never heard for certain why McGregor actually passed on the fight but he also knows the former two-division UFC champion has a lot happening right now outside of combat sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a fight set up and Conor said no,\u201d KSI said on the Misfits Boxing YouTube channel <\/a>after the promotion\u2019s latest event. \u201cI don\u2019t know, it could be money, it could be his mindset. It could be a lot of reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t think he knows what he\u2019s going to be doing the next day. He\u2019s all over the place. One minute he wants to be the prime minister of Ireland, the next he wants to do a random side quest. Who cares. It is what it is. But let him do his thing. It is what it is. I\u2019m going to just move on and do me.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been a lot of doubts about whether McGregor is ever going to compete again or not, especially after he dropped out of a proposed fight against Michael Chandler<\/a> in 2024 due to a broken toe. In the aftermath of that fight falling apart, McGregor has been primarily focused on building up BKFC as one of the co-owners of the bare-knuckle promotion and focusing on a run at becoming the President of Ireland.<\/p>\n

Even UFC CEO Dana White<\/a> cast doubt on McGregor\u2019s chances to return when he recently stated that he didn\u2019t expect the 36-year-old fighter to compete again \u201canytime soon.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

While McGregor\u2019s future in fighting appears in doubt, KSI promised that he\u2019s working hard on his return to the ring but an injury is going to keep him sidelined for the immediate future.<\/p>\n

He previously had a fight scheduled against Dillon Danis<\/a> back in March but dropped out of the fight due to illness.<\/p>\n

Now KSI says he\u2019s been suffering through a hand injury that\u2019s going to require him to have surgery before he can truly prepare for his return to the ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I want to fight again,\u201d KSI said. \u201cI just need to fix my hand. I\u2019ve told my audience, I\u2019ve told a lot of people, I can\u2019t punch. Every time I push [my index finger] in, it hurts. I\u2019ve had this injury for about a year. I\u2019ve tried to fight through it, it just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for me now, I\u2019m going to have surgery, get that sorted and then slowly get some rehab just to get it back to where it was again. Where I was knocking people out and then we can go from there and then we can have the big fights again. For right now, I think I\u2019m going to be out for a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KSI is no stranger to setting up marquee boxing matches but he thought he was nearing a deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[9988,13689,1935,4496,28500,12452,10516,163,21023,29477,1895,1501,12153,52081,5705,49079,2960,30471,2955,79,5598,52082,5706,12137,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-115650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-against","9":"tag-all","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-conor","13":"tag-down","14":"tag-fighting","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-he","17":"tag-him","18":"tag-ksi","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-match","21":"tag-mcgregor","22":"tag-mma","23":"tag-over","24":"tag-place","25":"tag-reveals","26":"tag-s","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-the","29":"tag-turned","30":"tag-ufc","31":"tag-ufc-news","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114537258235007335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}