Conor McGregor förlorade senast sin första match i UFC, då han ströps ut av Nate Diaz i andra ronden vid UFC 196. Tanken var att de båda skulle mötas i en returmatch vid UFC 200, men då Conor vägrade gå med på organisationens presschema ströks han från matchkortet.
Nu meddelas det via ESPN att UFC siktar in sig på en returmatch den 20 augusti, som även den ska äga rum i weltervikt, och detta hade McGregor att säga om det hela:
What kind of fighter would I be, if I said, ’Hey, I didn’t get you at 170, let me try to get you at 155’. I’ll make my adjustments. I ate up to the weight. This time, I won’t do that.
The first eight minutes of the fight was easy. Let’s be honest, I slapped the head off him. Once the gas tank went, that was it. I drowned. He landed that one punch that rang the bell and went, ’[Gasp,] I’m back.’ He was close to being done. One or two more shots and he would have been wrapped up.
Swinging on gymnastic rings on fight week isn’t the best thing. Usually, I wrap myself in bubble wrap and only do fight-specific things, but just because of that weight, no weight cut, I had put it in my head that, ’I’m free.’ I had energy to burn. I was doing so much bounce footwork, the balls of my feet were burned to a crisp. Looking back, it was ridiculous. I don’t know what I was thinking.
Det är även en hel del prat om en match mellan Conor och boxningslegenden Floyd Mayweather, som sägs kunna äga rum i september, men hur det blir med den saken återstår att se.
