5 reasons to watch UFC 202

However, he believes that this time Conor McGregor will put on a more accomplished performance to blow the American away.

At the prefight news conference for the main event of UFC 202, a near brawl broke out between McGregor and Diaz and his camp after the two sides started hurling water bottles at each other while McGregor was addressing the media and Diaz was leaving the venue.

There is no love lost between the duo who are set to battle it out in round two in the highly-anticipated UFC 202 scrap on Saturday night.

With light heavyweights Glover Teixeira and Anthony Johnson playing second fiddle to Nate Diaz and the fashionably late Conor McGregor, the presser was cut short after the main event combatants engaged in a shouting match that eventually led to Ultimate Fighting Championship-brand water bottles being flung into the air like grenades. White had begun the press conference in surly form when McGregor’s tardiness again clearly irking the sport’s figurehead.

McGregor connected with big shots that opened up Diaz and taunted one of the best in-fight trash talkers in UFC history.

The hashtag emoji was first revealed when a tweet from the UFC’s official Twitter page featured both fighter’s hashtags.

If you missed out on the UFC 202 press conference, it was a doozy.

Conor is a game-changer, Conor is on top of his game and Conor is going to win the rematch.

Three minutes later Diaz had abandoned his seat and was next heard shouting taunts down toward McGregor as he and his team made their way out of the theater.

“Cowboy” is one of the most consistently entertaining fighters in the sport and he’s looked outstanding in his first two welterweight appearances, having submitted Alex Oliveira in the first round back in February before styling on Patrick Cote a couple of months ago in Ottawa. “I’m ready to fight”, McGregor declared. I’m here. I’m ready to fight. “It wouldn’t surprise me if we saw McGregor take Diaz to the floor toward the end of a round though, just to prove the point that he isn’t intimidated by Nate’s jiu-jitsu skills”. You know you’re going to get a fight when I’m here.

“People spend a lot of money to come see me fight from my hometown, and they had already purchased tickets, so I wanted to get back on that card”, McGregor told the magazine.

McGregor gave Diaz his due, talked about his miscalculations and returning to featherweight to defend the belt he claimed in December earlier after doggedly pursuing Jose Aldo for a full year.