So then let’s presume McGregor fights in the featherweight division again one way or another. “I believe there are many great fighters”.
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Even if he (or indeed Dana White according to reports) were to ask Conor to vacate the 145lb. belt, Kavanagh says that such a suggestion wouldn’t register with the headstrong Irishman.
“I said his right hand would get him into trouble”, he said, “it’s the shot I predicted, I said he’d overload on his right hand, I said I’d slip and I’d bang the left hook and that’s what happened”. “I’m going to sit back in the shadows over Christmas and plot and I’ll come back in the New Year with something for you all”. Aldo insists what happened was not a fight since it ended briefly.
It was billed as the biggest fight in the biggest weekend in UFC history. “There’ll be a belt on one shoulder and a belt on the other shoulder”.
However as a fighter who competes in the Featherweight division and aspiring to claim my own piece of UFC glory. McGregor has also said he wants a crack at the lightweight belt, or that he’d be interested in fighting Edgar in Dublin’s Croke Park.
Conor McGregor celebrates his stunning first-round knockout of Jose Aldo. McGregor also has an uncanny ability to predict not only the outcome of a fight, but the manner in which he’ll accomplish his next feat of pugilistic prowess. I think every champion, after losing, and especially the way I lost – no excuses, I lost, he connected with a good strike and was successful – but, of course, I want a rematch. “But, I think it’s too soon to talk”, he said. It’s hard not to agree given the reported numbers of his past two fights, including his interim title victor in July at UFC 189, which then set the Nevada box office record for MMA at $7.2 million and reportedly drew 1 million pay-per-view buys.
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Conor McGregor’s meteoric rise in the UFC is nearly unbelievable but it’s exactly what he’s been predicting all along.
