“If they offer me Croke Park, or if they offer me the football [Aviva] stadium, you’re damn right I’m gonna take it”, he said before agreeing that perhaps he could just lay down the law himself.
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As soon as Aldo entered the Octagon, he didn’t take his eyes off the canvas, while McGregor was at ease, practicing kicks and taking in the atmosphere. “It would have been nice if the contest had stretched out a little longer”.
Aldo hadn’t fought since October 2014 due to injury. “If I say it’s going to happen, it happens”.
Edgar’s stoppage put a dramatic finish on the second of three UFC fight cards in three nights on the Las Vegas Strip.
McGregor said that a rematch with Aldo was one of three options for him going forward. McGregor, a southpaw, slipped the right hand and threw the counter left that dropped Aldo instantly.
‘No power, just precision.
Conor McGregor is the new undisputed featherweight champion, but more importantly; McGregor is officially the KING of the UFC.
Irishman McGregor had said in the build-up to the event that he will embarrass Aldo with a first-round knockout, reports BBC sports. If I was inactive like previous champions or older champions, I’d understand vacating, but I’ll go up.
José Aldo former featherweight champion was 10 years undefeated until Mr McGregor arrived on the scene at their fight at UFC 194 in Las Vegas last night.
Conor McGregor’s record knockout victory in 13 seconds over Jose Aldo on Saturday was a result of his gift of visualization, he said at his postfight news conference late Saturday. McGregor has remained calm and composed throughout his UFC career, but it was impossible to ignore the magnitude of the moment at UFC 194. McGregor instead fought and defeated Chad Mendes in an interim bout before finally giving fans what they wanted on Saturday night.
“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”.
“It literally rained on Frankie Edgar’s world when I told him that”.
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“I would like to go up and fight for that 155-pound belt and replicate what I’d done in (Cage Warriors) and get that two-weight belt”, McGregor said. That’s not happening. There’ll be a belt on one shoulder and a belt on the other shoulder.
