{"id":75999,"date":"2026-07-12T00:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/conor-mcgregors-long-awaited-ufc-return-ends-after-69-seconds-with-knee-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:54:55","slug":"conor-mcgregors-long-awaited-ufc-return-ends-after-69-seconds-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/conor-mcgregors-long-awaited-ufc-return-ends-after-69-seconds-with-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor\u2019s long-awaited UFC return ends after 69 seconds with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Bout with Holloway in Las Vegas finishes in first round<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>UFC chief Dana White: \u2018We\u2019re assuming a blown ACL\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Irish star\u2019s last fight before Saturday was five years ago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conor McGregor\u2019s return against Max Holloway at UFC 329 in Las Vegas ended at just 1:09 of the first round Saturday night because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting for the first time in more than five years, the 37-year-old McGregor flew across the ring with a flying left roundhouse kick when the match started and landed awkwardly on his right knee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/12\/conor-mcgregors-knee-injury-ufc-max-holloway\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bout with Holloway in Las Vegas finishes in first round UFC chief Dana White: \u2018We\u2019re assuming a blown ACL\u2019 Irish star\u2019s last fight before Saturday was five years ago Conor McGregor\u2019s return against Max Holloway at UFC 329 in Las Vegas ended at just 1:09 of the first round Saturday night because of a knee &#8230; <a title=\"Conor McGregor\u2019s long-awaited UFC return ends after 69 seconds with knee injury\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/conor-mcgregors-long-awaited-ufc-return-ends-after-69-seconds-with-knee-injury\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Conor McGregor\u2019s long-awaited UFC return ends after 69 seconds with knee injury\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}