“Surprise, surprise, motherf**ker!” he yelled as the crowd in the T-Mobile Arena roared in support. White says a fight at 145 should be next for McGregor, and we’re not likely to see Diaz at the weight.
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“I gave him number two”.
In the second, the leg kicks continued and Diaz was caught with several stiff left hands. “You won’t be seeing me until then”, he said via Fox Sports. “But I just stayed calm with it”.
Having proved that he can hang with the naturally bigger Diaz however, McGregor obviously feels as though a third bout at lightweight, where Diaz remains ranked, would make most sense.
One can not deny that McGregor was a better fighter this time around.
“It’s 1-1. Let’s do it again”, McGregor declared, although he added a condition.
“If you want the trilogy, come back down to 155 pounds and we’ll do it”.
“He did a lot of running in that fight”, Diaz said.
“I’m the 145-pound champion”. Come back to 155 [pounds]. “For real. Until then I ain’t coming back”. McGregor pummeled Diaz with multiple shots in the first round, giving Diaz a bloody facial gash, but Diaz weathered the storm and countered with a few shots of his own near the end of the round. People looking at this face probably back crying somewhere probably, he said. “That must have been a two year build up, he pulled out last minute”, said McGregor.
McGregor has the UFC featherweight title to defend against former rival Jose Aldo or risk being stripped of the crown, while a possible superfight against boxer Floyd Mayweather – nearly certain to be a boxing match rather than a mixed martial arts affair – has been mooted with both men publicly declaring their interest. “I would beat both they asses”, Mayweather Sr. told the Mayweather Boxing Channel. “What would that do to the division, if the guy I KO’d in 13 seconds is the unified champion?”
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MMAFighting.com was first to report the news that McGregor would be earning a guaranteed purse of $3 million for his second Octagon meeting with the Stockton Bad Boy.
