McGregor, Aldo make weight for title fight at UFC 194
Weidman is a -165 favorite over Rockhold at +135. He’s brash, arrogant, and an excellent fight promoter and trash talker.
-115 – Odds favouring McGregor to beat Aldo, even though Aldo is ranked No. 1 in UFC’s pound-for-pound rankings (McGregor is No. 12).
Going into the fight, it was thought that Mendes would have the power advantage.
On Thursday, McGregor wowed fans with an open workout as he made the final preparations for the weekend clash with Aldo. The crowd was boisterous, cheering for their guy while firing vicious boos at the man McGregor will face, Jose Aldo. “He doesn’t want to be here”. “I feel the Brazilians will come out to support”.
“I nearly want to comfort him”. After many Irish fight fans told White he needed to check out McGregor, and he did just that. McGregor took full advantage of it during his question and answers segment with more mind games. Both will face tomorrow in the UFC 194, which takes place in Las Vegas, but not saved anything in the last previous confrontation. I stay focused. We’ve all seen with Chris, he gets frustrated when you hit him, when things don’t go his way. “With great risk comes great reward, and he’s been rewarded very well”. “Jose’s pushing back now, saying, ‘You’re not in my … head”.
Las Vegas has also seen McGregor get upstaged in the cage. “Nobody can deny Frankie any more”.
Let McGregor and featherweight champion Jose Aldo do the selling, Weidman (13-0) and Rockhold (14-2) have both said repeatedly.
“It really doesn’t matter to me if he underestimates me”. I believe that’s what Conor will do.
To preview the event, former Cage Warriors world champion Chris Fields and MMA journalist Mark O’Toole joined Emmet Ryan to preview UFC 194’s main event.
It will have to be good to follow the co-main event. Edgar, so long shunted to the side after losing multiple title fights a few years ago, probably can’t be ignored any longer.
The bar was set five months ago in July for the weigh in at UFC 189.
Perhaps because of the lack of attention on his fight, Weidman has been incredibly calm and relaxed all week. I’m ready to fight. One fight can change everything so I’m just going to deal with Evan Dunham for now and then we’ll go from there. After that, I gained experience. After about a minute of exchanging shots, Ferguson decided he had enough and got the fight to the ground.
“Yes, 100 per cent, my best work is always done at home”.
10 – The number of fighters on the UFC 194 main card, all of whom have been in a UFC main event at one point or another.