Conor McGregor will return against Max Holloway in a welterweight bout at UFC 329 on July 11 in Las Vegas.
The 37-year-old has not fought since breaking his leg in a fight against Dustin Poirier in 2021 and has faced a series of legal issues over the last eight years.
The fight against Holloway will be a rematch of the 2013 featherweight bout, which McGregor won on points.
Last July, a jury found McGregor liable in a civil sexual assault case from an incident in 2018, which was upheld by Ireland’s High Court.
The MMA fighter lost his appeal on all five grounds that the case was taken after Nikita Hand successfully sued McGregor in a civil court over an incident in which he was alleged to have raped her in a penthouse at a south Dublin hotel in December 2018.
McGregor was scheduled to return for a fight against Michael Chandler in July 2024, but withdrew due to a toe injury.
The Irishman burst onto the MMA scene in 2013 and became the first UFC fighter to hold two championship belts in 2016 with a win over Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight title. He won the featherweight title a year earlier with a knockout of Jose Aldo.
McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a boxing match in 2017 during a two-year hiatus from the UFC, but has lost three of his last four fights.
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