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Conor McGregor has claimed he WILL fight for the UFC lightweight title on his return from injury.

The Irishman is recovering from the broken leg he suffered in the first round of his third fight with Dustin Poirier last summer.

He has pencilled in a return for this summer, by which time lightweight champion Charles Oliveira will have defended his title against Justin Gaethje.

UFC president Dana White has refused to rule out McGregor swanning back into a title shot - despite the claims of rising star Islam Makhachev.

He stopped late-replacement Bobby Green last weekend and is now ranked No.3 in the 155lb division.

But McGregor, who has not won in the lightweight division since he won the title from Eddie Alvarez in 2016, insists he will be granted another shot at gold.

"Really pumped for my next fight, [the] title fight!" he wrote on social media.

McGregor is languishing at No.9 in the lightweight rankings but remains the biggest draw on the UFC roster.

And White has suggested he will leave it up to the champion as to who he fights when McGregor returns to action.

"We will see what's what with the lightweight division," he told The Underground. "It's going to depend on who the champion is when Conor McGregor comes back, they have a say in it. What do they want to