Conor McGregor har tagit sig till en titelmatch i UFC:s fjäderviktsdivision, då han möter Jose Aldo vid UFC 189 den 11 juli. Ett tag var det dock nära på att McGregor lade handskarna på hyllan, då det inte kändes som att han kom någonstans.
Detta hade Conor att säga, via ”FoxSports”:
There’s many ups and downs in the fight game. There’s many times where you have these conversations where you want to do it, you don’t want to do it.
As you know, outside the UFC, MMA fighting is not financially secure. So, I was unsure of what to do. A longtime teammate of mine had got some bad news from too many wars inside the Octagon. So, you know, I sat back, and the UFC had not called at this stage where I had two gold belts wrapped around my waist, and I was thinking, ’I don’t think I want to do this. Maybe, maybe this is not for me.’
If this happened to my friend, who came up with me in the game and now he cannot compete anymore… And he is UFC-caliber, also. But he never got his opportunity. So I sat back and had essentially walked away from the sport. I was out of the gym for maybe three, four weeks, which is … I am never out of the gym for three to four weeks.
McGregor har nu vunnit samtliga av sina fem matcher i UFC, där fyra av vinsterna tillkommit via TKO. Sist slog han ut Dennis Siver, då de möttes under ”UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver”.
