McGregor, of course, recently unified the UFC featherweight titles and made it known he was looking to compete for lightweight gold next. “There’s a lot of bad media about me and people think I’m argumentative or whatever”.
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“Conor McGregor has said he wants to come to my division”, Dos Anjos said.
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“I just think that I’m his kryptonite”, he said.
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It remains to be seen what will come next for Jose Aldo, but if the UFC wants the former featherweight champ to fight Max Holloway, the latter is clearly up for the challenge. I will fight you in Brazil.
It remains to be seen if McGregor and Aldo will have a rematch, although there is word that the UFC is leaning more on a McGregor vs. Frankie Edgar tiff. “But you really don’t know how you’re going to react until he starts doing it. He sucked me in, so congrats to him”. You know what’s the real fight, what’s the real money fight – me. You know you beat them already. I want to fight good fights, big fights that count.
The number four-ranked featherweight believes it’s only a matter of time before McGregor vs Holloway 2 happens after their 2013 clash saw him with a sprained ankle and the Dubliner tear his ACL ligament.
The Hawaiian fighter took the Irishman to the scorecards on the night, and he is the only man in MMA to take McGregor the distance in 21 contests, per Holland.
The report adds that Aldo was actually both the favorite and underdog at one point, moments before fight night on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Edgar is a good pairing for Holloway after UFC President Dana White lauded The Answer.
Yet, the heat Nate Diaz has already built between him and McGregor may be the catalyst for UFC to set up a fight between the two. So I’m thinking maybe the end of May, beginning of June is when I wanted to get back in there. The Brazilian labored in the UFC for 18 bouts before finally getting a title shot in March, and he capitalized by beating Anthony Pettis to claim the 155-pound title.
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With the defeat of Ronda Rousey by Holly Holm, McGregor stands alone as the promotion’s biggest star and anyone fighting him can make immediate history – not to mention a big chunk of change as any McGregor fight will rake in the money.
