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Conor McGregor: ’I would have defended the featherweight belt in march. I’m still world champ’

Conor McGregor tog hem fjäderviktsbältet när han knockade mästaren Jose Aldo under UFC 194 i slutet av 2015. Han gick sedan två matcher mot Nate Diaz i weltervikt för att sedan ta hem lättviktsbältet när han mötte Eddie Alvarez i december förra året. McGregor blev sedan av med fjäderviktsbältet utan något försvar av det.

Nu menar irländaren att han hade försvarat fjäderviktsbältet i mars, om han hade blivit tillfrågad.

Det här berättade McGregor under sin PPV-intervju i England förra helgen.

Before I even got the belt, they wanted to strip me. That’s what I’m saying. Before I even won the belt they were like you’ve got to give this one up. Let me go and get the thing first. Let me go make the history. Let me go do what’s never been done before. There seemed to be a problem with that for whatever reason. I don’t know what the problem was.

All they had to do was ask. If they had legitimately came to me and said, ‘hey Conor, I know you’re preparing to have a baby. I know you’re chilling, but if you want to fight for this featherweight belt in March,’ I would have went in and slept [Max] Holloway, or the guy he’s fighting, or [Jose] Aldo, or whoever they wanted. No problem. All they had to do was ask.

Instead, they created an interim belt. They gave back the unified belt to a guy I KO’d in 13 seconds. A guy I dominated now has the interim title. I was almost a little bit embarrassed for the way it was playing out. It’s not really how bad it’s gone. They just need to kind of create all this fake stuff to sell some stuff, but it’s still some (expletive)

Like I said, all they had to do was ask. All they had to do was ask. Right now, I’m walking around at about 75 kilos. That’s like 160 pounds. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a heavy cut. It’s a heavy weight cut, but tell me one time I’m missed it. Tell me one time I’ve missed the featherweight limit

Sign on the dotted line and I’ll take a featherweight fight no problem. But make no mistake about it, you sign me up against any of these featherweights, they’re not going to show up. And that’s fact. The featherweights are praying that I don’t come back down there.

Aldo gick länge och väntade på att få en returmatch mot McGregor, men fick sedan tillbaka bältet då irländaren blev fråntagen det.

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