The clock said 13 seconds, but newly crowned UFC world champion Conor McGregor took a lot longer than that to land the “perfect punch” – 27 years, in fact.
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And McGregor says whatever he does, it will sell tickets and pay-per-views.
The featherweight’s 13-second KO of Jose Aldo in Las Vegas sent his travelling Irish fans nuts.
“What’d Floyd and Manny do?”
However, where the real money is in the PPV buys, which each fighter earns $1 over 100,000, rising to $3 over 500,000 sold. Tell me how many fights I’ve had in the past year. I’m only warming up.
“At 27 years of age, I stand here as the unified world champion (with) back-to-back gate records at the MGM”. I will be a dual weight champion.
Nick Baldwin plays matchmaker for the main card fighters (plus Urijah Faber) from Saturday’s UFC 194 in Las Vegas.
On Saturday, lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos defends his belt against Donald Cerrone.
“If I go to lightweight, there’s no way I’m vacating that belt”, McGregor said.
But while acknowledging making 145 pounds was tough, he rejected the idea of giving up one belt to fight for another. I stay busy. I stay fresh.
Later on the broadcast, Rogan said that he doesn’t believe Aldo should get a rematch as McGregor beat him decisively, and suggested that McGregor should face Frankie Edgar next.
McGregor, who was beaming from ear to ear as he paraded his belt while standing next to Octagon Girl Brittney Palmer, needed just 13 seconds to leave Aldo out cold.
Right now, it is questionable if Aldo will get his rematch against “The Notorious” McGregor, although the UFC’s Dana White apparently told Fox Sports that there’s no doubt about a rematch taking place, but he didn’t give any details.
“It would have been nice if the contest had stretched out a little bit longer, just for all that it’s been through, but I still feel the same process would have happened”, he said. “If you become vocal with it, you create the law of attraction”. McGregor dropped Aldo with a short counter left hook and then brought down a pair of hammerfists on his head before referee John McCarthy ended the fight.
In the months between then and Sunday’s showdown, McGregor bombarded the Brazilian with taunt after taunt but Aldo denied the constant trash talk was a distraction.
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Edgar worked to make a case for an April 23 Madison Square Garden date but conceded he’d go to Croke Park in Ireland, too. “I think we have to move on now and now I am waiting for a rematch and God willing next time I will be back much better trained and recover what is mine”. “Timing beats speed, precision beats power”. “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”.
