McGregor took Aldo’s UFC featherweight title in Las Vegas at the weekend with his emphatic one-punch knockout, ending Aldo’s 18 fight unbeaten run that stretches back to 2005.
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Conor McGregor celebrates his championship victory against Jose Aldo during UFC 194 at MGM Grand Garden Arena. The Brazilian fighter had defended his belt seven times in the Octagon before UFC 194. Aldo made a mistake, and he got punished by the skill of the Dublin native.
Aldo certainly couldn’t. He began the brief match looking strong, but his end was nigh when he closed in on McGregor with a wide, heavy-looking right as McGregor knifed in with a lightning left.
The Irish fighter clearly knew his way with words and also in the ring.
Whether he moves up to lightweght or defends his UFC featherweight crown, Conor McGregor’s next fight will be whatever is the biggest he can make.
The moments leading up to the fight were tense as both fighters came into the ring ready for an epic battle. “It’s too soon so say anything, but I have spoken to Dana and I will call him so we can talk”. “Only 13 seconds”, he said as posted on Yahoo!
“We’ll see who wins that fight and we’ll go from there”, White said. It’s a sport. We lost the battle today, but if it’s God’s will, we lost the battle, not the war. “‘He is ready to unload that right hand and I feel that could be a downfall for him”.
“He was a brash young man, he still is a brash young man, and he was already predicting the stuff he was going to do”, remembers MMA fighter Chris Fields of SBG who has trained with McGregor for all that time.
In an interview on Brazilian television, the former UFC featherweight champion was magnanimous in defeat and wants another crack at the new champion.
Aldo hopes his status as the division’s only other champion – he had held the belt for five years since it’s inception – will mean a rematch with the Irishman is not hard to sort out.
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McGregor only needed 13 seconds to dethrone longtime featherweight champ Jose Aldo and unify the featherweight title belts in Las Vegas on Saturday (Sunday AEDT).
