Daniel Cormier predicts Conor McGregor will headline UFC 300

Former UFC champion Daniel Cormier predicts that UFC 300 will feature some big names just like UFC 100 and UFC 200 did.  

“UFC 100 had Brock [Lesnar], right? With Georges St-Pierre and all those guys.  UFC 200 had Brock, it was supposed to me and [Jon] Jones also but it ended up being me, Anderson Silva, Brock, all these guys, big names,” Cormier said on the “DC & RC” show.. “UFC 300 has to have a name like that. We don’t have Brock Lesnar anymore. So, I think you have to have a Conor McGregor versus Michael Chandler. I think Michael Chandler gets his shot now, in the main event. Boy, Michael Chandler will headline UFC 300, how crazy is that?”

“Co-main event, when I look down the line, I know that Jones and Stipe [Miocic] will not be ready,” Cormier said.  “I do believe that whoever wins the [interim heavyweight] belt this weekend will have to fight again. Leon Edwards or Colby Covington will then be available again, right? Because they fight [at UFC 296] in December. I believe it’ll be one of them, if not both. The interim heavyweight champion and then the welterweight champion will also fight at UFC 300.”

UFC 300 is expected to takes place in April 2024.  The official date, venue and location has not been announced yet.  

McGregor and Chandler will likely be ready to go by then.  The fight has been delayed due to McGregor’s drug testing status with USADA.  The fight promotion recently announced that it was parting ways with the anti-doping agency at the end of the year.

Jones injured his shoulder and required surgery while preparing to face Stipe Miocic at UFC 295.  He probably will not be ready to fight by April.  McGregor vs. Chandler will likely headline the fight card since McGregor is the biggest draw in the promotion’s history.