Can Conor McGregor beat Jose Aldo for the unified belt?

UFC athlete Aisling Daly and Ultimate Fighter contestant Artem Lobov attended Setanta Sports” advance screening of the first episode in the latest series of “The Ultimate Fighter’ featuring Conor McGregor.

Despite the current string of victories for the Irish dynamo, there are many detractors who still feel the fighter has much to prove if he’s going to back up his cocksure banter. You don’t wonder if that guy on American Idol is going to be physically able to sing next week or if the acts on America’s Got Talent are psyching each other out.

Before that fight, he was on the dole – a kid with a dream of fighting in the UFC and getting to show the world how good he is. You wanted to see him succeed and watch to see how far he could go. Jason Gonzalez took out Tim Welch with a ideal left kick to the liver in the second after a thrilling back-and-forth brawl and Chris Gruetzemacher administered one hell of a beating to Austin Springer’s body to get a stoppage of his own. “There has never been a bigger star than Ronda Rousey”.

“You went from $48,000 to half a million”, he said in reference to Mendes’ significant increase in fight purse following his loss to McGregor at UFC 189.

The two fighters battled it out for a little while, but once Gruetzemacher started to find a home for his clinch work while combining a few knee strikes, he took over the fight.

Aldo, for his part, doesn’t plan to go down without a fight and has already said he plans to end McGregor’s hopes quickly, though victory is the main thing on his mind. He’s like the spoiled child that we’ve enabled, and he can’t help himself. The brash Irishman takes aim at anyone and everyone that even comes near his sights. “Not everyone can be a Conor McGregor, otherwise it would be a complete [crazy] show”. Hall was one of the most highly-touted prospects coming on to the show and his performance proved that he definitely belonged amongst the top eight Americans.