Rafael dos Anjos kept receipts, and he finally cashed in eight years later.
The former UFC lightweight champion mocked Conor McGregor dropping out of UFC 303 due to injury, which scrapped his fight against Michael Chandler on June 29. The payback from dos Anjos comes after McGregor did the same to him back in 2016 when the Brazilian was forced out of their scheduled fight at UFC 296 after he suffered a broken foot.
After he got Nate Diaz as a new opponent, McGregor took aim at dos Anjos and questioned the severity of the injury that knocked him out of their fight.
“Did you see it? It’s a bruise,” McGregor said at the time. “Ice, ibuprofen. If I jumped under an x-ray, the doctor would slap me and say what are you doing kid? Get out of here. Stop this! If you show up, you fight, you’re in, congratulations. You did it.”
After hearing that McGregor pulled out of a fight for the first time since joining the UFC roster due to an injury, dos Anjos was right there to return the favor.
“It’s just a bruise,” dos Anjos wrote. “Take some ibuprofen.”
Credit to dos Anjos holding onto that one since 2016; he finally got a chance to offer McGregor the same advice the Irish superstar offered him all those years ago.
While dos Anjos was actually dealing with a broken foot, McGregor hasn’t disclosed the injury he suffered that forced a massive change to the UFC 303 card on June 29. McGregor also hasn’t stated how long the injury may keep him sidelined and UFC hasn’t officially rescheduled the matchup with Chandler yet.
