While he is open to that possibility, McGregor is keen to fight the victor of the upcoming lightweight title clash between champion Rafael dos Anjos and Donald Cerrone.
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Although everyone’s talking about Conor McGregor’s thirteen-second victory over Jose Aldo, numbers are being crunched and tallied to see how much the undisputed Featherweight Champion made from the fight.
Luke Rockhold also claimed the UFC middleweight title with a bloody fourth-round stoppage of previously unbeaten champion Chris Weidman in front of a frenzied crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
If the two fought again, it’s highly unlikely that McGregor would throw one punch and knock Aldo out again that quickly.
Aldo could say little when he was injured in training shortly before he was originally scheduled to meet McGregor in July, scrapping an elaborate promotional campaign and providing more fodder for his challenger.
As for Aldo, he’s left waiting to hear if McGregor and UFC officials decided his long reign as champion merits an immediate rematch.
Both Conor McGregor and Frankie Edgar came through this week with similarly huge first round knockouts, and now they may be on a collision course…
“In the fight game when you travel around for so long, Christmas is taken from you many times but this time Christmas is not taken from me so I get to go home”.
“Precision beats power and timing beats speed and that’s what you saw there”.
Aldo called for a rematch before leaving the cage but the new champion won’t be so quick to grand such a request, if at all.
McGregor looks set to move up to the lightweight division, but he insisted he’ll continue to fight for his newly acquired belt. “I think Jose should go back, regroup, get back in line for a No. 1 contender spot and go from there”. “But most certainly I’m looking to replicate what I achieved in my previous promotion”.
Aldo, the UFC featherweight champion, has gone undefeated for 10 years.
The shock was so evident that some of the UFC fighter could only express themselves using curse words, so we can’t reprint them here.
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For the past months, McGregor had been poking Aldo with his antics. “He felt the pressure like he’d never felt before because he was facing me”.
