In his MMA Hour interview, McGregor says there are likely to be fewer Irish fans in attendance this Saturday than at recent bouts, something that he predicted would create a different, perhaps hostile, atmosphere. I’ll see the boy Saturday, and his little team. I just thought it was weak, the whole thing, but hey. “I’m happy I get in and punch the guy in the face now, and if his team come near me I’ll smack his whole team, throwing bottles like that. It is what it is, you just have to get on with it,” he said. If it was scripted we would have probably would have came up with something better than that. Was it the most intelligent thing to be doing? Launching bottles and stuff? I think it wasn’t, but hey, it is what it is. It does get more real than that, as the UFC slogan is it is as real as it gets. We’re about to get into a cage and try and take each other out. What you think? We sat back down and said ‘hey, let’s launch bottles into the crowd’? I mean, no that’s ridiculous…It’s weird to even get compared to, that dweeb stuff. Good job Conor, but we going for three.Īppearing via phone-in on the Russillo and Kanell show, McGregor is asked about those who felt the altercation was staged. I learned from last contest. This time I want to do it at 155 pounds, I came in at 170 with him as the bigger man and I overcame that adversity. Now this trilogy is on my terms, come back down to 155 and we’ll do it. Surprise! Surprise, motherf-cker! The king is back! He took better than I expected. In the final seconds of the final round Diaz gets McGregor on the ground. A re-energized McGregor comes back in round four. Round three comprises grappling, with a strong finish from Diaz. Diaz is knocked down in the beginning of the second round, and starts bleeding from above the eyes. McGregor leads with leg kicks in the first round, knocking down Diaz within 1m 30s. McGregor beats Diaz in a majority decision (48-47, 48-47, 47-47) after five rounds. But I belive that if we do it it’ll be 155, maybe for the belt. I was thinking this might be a mistake, but I said, f-ck it, I’ll train hard, be smart, learn from our mistakes and go in. Sometimes I feel I’m a bit of a fat belly. We’ll regroup and gather up for another battle. If my team saw his team then something’s going down. It’s intense in the build up and everything is real. McGregor gives his first press conference after the fight. I’ve been at 155 my whole career! When Conor’s ready to do his thing again, no rush, take your time, go on vacation, or we can do it any time. If I was fighting me I’d have took me clean out…I just stayed in one spot. Not to make excuses, I got that all on videoed up. And then about two weeks after that I was sparring boxing and I really hurt my rib. I hurt my knee about a month ago I wasn’t able to train jiu-jitsu for the last month. He was scared to engage. I feel like they should have taken points for that…To top it off I was injured coming into this fight. He should have got a yellow card for that type of thing. I got paid…He did a lot of running in that fight. I thought I won, at least three rounds to two. I played a nice role in that too, so the number motivated me. And the year before it was sold is my year, numbers-wise. And now, since I came on, it’s four billion. I remember when I first started here, it was a two-billion dollar franchise. What was it? It was estimated at two billion at one stage before I came along. So I’m coming for some of my pie also. Like I said, I think I played a nice role in that number. You’re damn right I want a piece of that pie. Let’s not get it twisted, I like pie too. I have been surrounded by great people in this business and I continue to be surrounded by great people in this business. These are the people who have mentored me in this game and I’m very proud of that, and I’ll be proud of that until the day that I die. To be able to get a turnover like that, get in, get rich, get out like that, and build that up to what that was, man, I was blown away when I saw that, and I’m blown away that I’m even on a name-to-name basis with that. That is motivation right there…If you’re talking the greatest of all-time in the fight business, it’s that. And now all of a sudden, with their guidance, it’s the biggest f*cking sports franchise in the world. What was it, the biggest sports sale in history? A little sport that they laughed at. I was simply over the moon for them. To see the work they’ve put in, to see what they’ve done with it, I was inspired by it. McGregor tells MMA Hour that he is inspired by the UFC sale.
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