Conor McGregor’s days as a UFC fighter appear to be numbered.  

The former dual-weight champion joined Dana White’s MMA league in 2013 and 11 years later he in unquestionably the biggest star in the sport’s short history.

McGregor hasn’t fought in years – but he’s still the biggest combat sports starZuffa LLC via Getty

McGregor hasn’t competed since breaking his leg at UFC 264 in July 2021.

Fans have been impatiently waiting for his comeback fight, which was recently delayed until 2025 as his would-be opponent, Michael Chandler, opted to take on Charles Oliveira instead.

‘Notorious’ has publicly revealed that he has two fights left on his UFC deal.

McGregor is planning to complete his contract with MMA’s premier promotion before exploring free agency, which he recently referred to as ‘the promise land’.

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship [BKFC] owner Dave Feldman believes the Irishman will compete in his league once he’s free to do so.

McGregor recently acquired an ownership stake in the fledging bare-knuckle boxing promotion and has been relentlessly pushing it on his social media followers ever since.

Apparently, the 36-year-old has already agreed to fight for BKFC.

“Unless he’s the best salesman in the world, the talks that we’ve had it’s like ‘I’m fighting here,’” Feldman told MMA Fighting. “I’m like yeah, OK. He [said], ‘I’m fighting here.’

“I go, ‘Why wouldn’t you fight here?’ Because you have equity in the company and if you fight here, you’ll probably make more money than anywhere else in the world because of what it’s going to do for the company.

“So, I truly believe what you said. I think 100 per cent he fights here.”

Feldman believes McGregor will have to leave the UFC to fight for him.

McGregor talks up BKFC every chance he gets@thenotoriousmma – instagram

Feldman is convinced ‘Notorious’ will fight for his promotion after leaving the UFC@davefeldmanbkfc – instagram

Under no circumstances does he think White would co-promote with BKFC.

“The UFC doesn’t need us,” Feldman said.

“They don’t need us. We need to [co-promote] with them, they don’t need to [co-promote] with us, which would be phenomenal — they’re not going to do it.

“If they do Conor McGregor with anything, he don’t need to [co-promote] with us.”

For now, Feldman is just enjoying having McGregor as a business partner.

“He’s been unbelievable,” the BKFC boss said about McGregor. “He’s really been a partner so far. Blew away my expectations.

“Doing the interviews, he did the post-fight press conference, he’s meeting the guys. He’s going over and hugging the fighters and telling them, ‘Come on let’s do this!’ He’s sitting there ringside cheering for them. He’s posting all the time about it. He’s all in.

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“We had a great talk this weekend, it was just me and him talking and I said to him, ‘I don’t know if you really believe me, but this is going to be the biggest thing in the world in a few years, there’s nothing that’s going to be bigger than this, trust me.’ He goes, ‘It’s going to be two years.’

“[Conor] sees the vision. Are we ever going to be the biggest combat sport in the world? Probably not, honestly, but we’re definitely going to be one of the biggest.

“Absolutely. The numbers just keep going up.”