Now it’s November or December

That Khabib wants to come back. Possibly 8 months off. Ready to hear the UG’s endless hate for not defending the lightweight belt just like......

Hey, the UG understands these things. It’s cool. 

Time for a new interim interim interim championship 

Lee, Alvarez, and Poirer fight until one remains for the interim, they then fight Ferg once recovered for the interim interim, winner then fights Khabib on the New Years show. 

It's cool to hate on Khabib and all but now there is no clear-cut contender in LW, Tony is out for God knows how many months after "tripping over a cable" *cough*kicking steel pipes*cough*cough* and Conor is semi-retired. This seems like a good enough timeline for the LW title picture to clear up. 

We'll still be riding the high of Brocktober 

At least he plans on defending.

To be fair, I assume his next fight is Conor and maybe that's when they can make the fight happen. Either that or he just wants Poirer to fight Lee for the right to fight him. Khabib is close w dana due to Ali being his manager, sure they came up with whatever the plan is together.