Conor McGregor allegedly used banned drugs to heal from horrific injury with famed doctors support

As Conor McGregor approaches his highly anticipated return fight next month five years after fracturing his tibia and fibula, his recovery is being called into question.The New York Times reports that McGregor, who took himself out of the UFC drug testing pool after he suffered a nasty broken leg injury in July 2021 against Dustin Poirier, “took powerful, banned drugs” that his surgeon, Dodgers and Rams physician Dr.Neal ElAttrache, supported in a letter as McGregor applied for a special exemption.The belief from officials overseeing UFC’s drug-testing program was that McGregor’s request for a therapeutic use exemption was meant to “exploit a loophole,” according to the Times.

He never got the exemption.McGregor left the UFC’s highly strict USADA testing pool in 2022 and didn’t return until late 2023 when he was preparing for his return fight against Michael Chandler in June 2024.ElAttrache told the Times that he recommended consultations with specialists in bone healing, “but not the course of treatment.”“You are acting as if ‘banned drugs’ are somehow ‘illegal drugs’ or that they have no legitimate therapeutic use and only have performance enhancement use,” ElAttrache said.“There are many ‘banned drugs’ on the list which are necessary to medically treat various conditions which occur in people.

That is why a therapeutic use exemption application exists.”One source told The Post that the allegations McGregor took powerful performance-enhancing drugs to recover from such a nasty injury were “not surprising” — but ElAttrache’s comments were shocking.The UFC and USADA’s relationship ended after the end of 2023.The UFC now oversees its own anti-doping program in conjunction with Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD).McGregor’s camp did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.Reached by the Times, McGregor’s manager, Audie Attar, didn’t say whether McGregor used PEDs but said “even with surgery there was...