UFC 2 cover featuring Conor McGregor revealed

First, he just wants to celebrate the holidays. ‘It’s Christmas, I’m thinking right now about Christmas. I knew he would overextend and I knew I’d catch him. I’ve put in a hell of a lot of work. It’s been a insane year for me. “I said one round”.

McGregor (19-2) even called the winning shot during fight week.

UFC lightweights say McGregor will get hurt if he moves into their neighbourhood.

For the UFC, McGregor is manna from heaven at a time when Rousey is licking her wounds after losing her bantamweight title and former light-heavyweight champion Jon (Bones) Jones is on the comeback trail after being derailed by legal issues. Frankie Edgar earned a very impressive first round KO win over Chad Mendes on Friday night, and he is the next person in line to face McGregor for the featherweight title.

“The options are there”.

And speaking at the post-fight press conference, McGregor added: “If they offer me Croke Park, or if they offer me the football [Aviva] stadium, you’re damn right I’m gonna take it”. “That could be for the featherweight belt”.

His ground game could well send him on a run in the UFC and while he’s not ready for a top name opponent just yet, a fighter like Tatsuya Kawajiri is just recognisable enough to generate interest. “This is trending as the highest pay-per-view of all time for the UFC”, McGregor said via Bloody Elbow. Now, he’s set even loftier goals. 72 Million? I’m catching up. “Those (expletives) are 40. I’m only warming up!” he declared. Back-to-back MGM gate records.

“I believe I’ve been the best in this sport for a long time”. I will be a dual weight champion.

“Every other champion gets a belt and they don’t want to go up or down”. I’m not just going to beat Jose. I’m going straight up, I’m bringing big numbers, the sky is the limit.

One area McGregor feels he has already reached the pinnacle is in the pound-for-pound rankings.

In fact, Riggs felt that McGregor didn’t deserve to share the octagon with Aldo.

“It literally rained on Frankie Edgar’s world when I told him that”. I think it doesn’t end there. He said that if he becomes a two-division champion, he’d defend both of them with regularity. “I said one round”. There’s no vacating. That’s not happening. (Aldo) was now the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter on the roster, undefeated in 10 years, the company’s only featherweight champion. This is my division. Whatever he said it doesn’t matter, I don’t fall for provocations.

McGregor’s camp looked slightly more relaxed as the fight got underway, whereas Aldo’s backing staff looked a touch more anxious ahead of the bout. Plus, he had a chance to not only silence “Notorious”, but the rest of the naysayers who doubted his fight-cancelling rib injury.

“If you can see it here and you have the courage to speak it, it will happen”.

“That event in Dublin spurred me on and showed me that ‘This is for me”.

Riggs went as far as promising to cut off his genitals if McGregor should defeat Aldo.

“He threw a cross on my chest, which I wasn’t expecting, then I threw a punch and he came back with another cross and that was that”.