Conor McGregor

Conor Anthony McGregor (Irish: Conch??r Ant??in Mac Gr??ag??ir;[9] born 14 July 1988) is an Irish professional mixed martial artist and fighter. He is the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight winner. As of 1 July 2019, he’s ranked #3 at the official UFC lightweight rankings and #9 in the official UFC pound-for-pound rankings.
McGregor began his MMA career in 2008 and, in 2012, he won both the Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight Championships, holding both names concurrently before vacating them to signal together with the UFC. In 2015, in UFC 194, he conquered Jos?? Aldo to the UFC Featherweight Championship via knockout 13 seconds into the first round, which is the quickest victory in UFC title fight history. Upon beating Eddie Alvarez for the UFC Lightweight Championship in UFC 205, McGregor became the first fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight divisions simultaneously.
McGregor began his professional boxing career in 2017. In his debut boxing game, he had been defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the biggest pay-per-view (PPV) draw in MMA history, having headlined five from the six highest-selling UFC pay-per-view occasions. His headline bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov in UFC 229 attracted 2.4 million PPV purchases, the most ever for an MMA event. His boxing game with Mayweather drew 4.3 million PPV purchases in North America, the second most from history.On 9 March 2008, McGregor had his first professional MMA bout, as a lightweight, beating Gary Morris using a second-round TKO. Following McGregor won his second fight against Mo Taylor, he made his featherweight debut in a reduction via submission against Artemij Sitenkov. Following a success at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor considered a different career path before his mother contacted his coach John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to keep on pursuing combined martial arts. [25] McGregor then won his next fight, also at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before going back to lightweight for a fight against Joseph Duffy, where he obtained his next professional loss after submitting to an arm-triangle choke. Following this, during 2011 and 2012, McGregor went on an eight-fight winning series,[26] during which he won both the CWFC Featherweight and Lightweight championships, making him the first European professional mixed martial artist to hold titles in two branches simultaneously. In February 2013, UFC president Dana White made a trip to Dublin, Ireland to receive a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College and has been inundated with requests to signal McGregor into the UFC. Following a meeting McGregor, and speaking with UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, White offered him a contract later.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (2013–present)
2013
UFC debut In February 2013, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) declared that they had signed McGregor into a multi-fight contract. [27] In joining, McGregor became just the second fighter from Ireland to compete for the company, after fellow SBG team member Tom Egan.
On 6 April 2013, McGregor made his UFC debut against Marcus Brimage on the first card card of UFC on Fuel TV: Mousasi vs. Latifi. [28] Brimage began the fight aggressively, meeting McGregor in the center of the octagon before starting a flurry of strikes to push him back. McGregor, repeatedly throwing a counter left hand, seen little success with his first striking. After discovering that Brimage was vulnerable to a snap kick directed at his chest and chin, McGregor began to apply a looping left hand uppercut, throwing each single time Brimage would move forwards into striking range. These uppercuts grounded Brimage shortly after McGregor began to utilize them. The bout was stopped 1:07 into the first round. [29] The win also earned McGregor his initial”Knockout of the Night” award. [30] McGregor was anticipated to face Andy Ogle on 17 August 2013 at UFC Fight Night 26, but Ogle pulled out of this bout citing an injury and was replaced by Max Holloway. [31] McGregor bewildered Holloway with his unusual boxing strategy, and his incorporation of a wide array of taekwondo kicks, many of which are not utilized in MMA to some significant degree. McGregor managed to restrain the striking range by using extended, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and shin, and commence combinations by jumping in with switch and bicycle kicks. When the battle was brought to the ground, McGregor maintained top hands, performing various positional improvements, and mitigating his competitor’s exemptions on the floor. [32] McGregor won the fight by unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, and 30–26). After the bout with Holloway, an MRI scan showed that McGregor had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) throughout the bout and would require surgery, keeping him out of action for up to ten months. [33] 2014
Return after injury McGregor was anticipated to face Cole Miller on 19 July 2014 at UFC Fight Night 46 within his comeback bout after recovering from his ACL injury. [34] But, Miller pulled from the bout citing a thumb injury and has been replaced by Diego Brand??o. [35] McGregor battled Brand??o in front of a loud, rowdy crowd of 9,500 in The O2 in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland. McGregor started the fight with a signature spinning side kick, before finding his range and successfully landing various taekwondo kicks, and left counters. Brand??o, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black buckle, attempted to instigate two takedowns, so he could take advantage of his grappling pedigree, but both efforts were averted by McGregor. Nonetheless, much of the struggle was spent on the ground, as McGregor achieved a takedown 1:20 into the bout. When the fight returned to the feet in the third minute, McGregor began to use his left hand crossover, and began to cut off the cage. Brand??o, trapped between the octagon and McGregor, fell to his side after being hit with the other left hand cross as the struggle went into its fourth minute. [36][37] The fight was formally halted by Faith Leon Roberts at 4:05 of the very first round. The triumph earned McGregor his initial”Performance of the Night” award. [38] Before his next bout, McGregor met with Lorenzo Fertitta and signed up a fresh multi-fight contract with the UFC. McGregor next confronted Dustin Poirier on 27 September 2014 in UFC 178. [39] The bout was one of the most anticipated fights on the UFC 178 card, with McGregor and Poirier two of only four men involved with the pre-fight press conference, alongside the originally scheduled headliners Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier. [40] Part of the anticipation stemmed from the challenge the match-up posed: Poirier was McGregor’s first opponent ranked in the UFC’s top ten featherweights. [41][42] Despite McGregor landing 9 significant strikes on Poirier’s 10, he was able to secure a success early on in the first round, by pushing Poirier on his back foot, before exploding with a left hook behind Poirier’s ear, forcing referee Herb Dean to measure in. The finish officially came at 1:46 into the first round. [43][44] This marked Poirier’s first UFC loss via KO/TKO, also earned McGregor his second straight”Performance of the Night” award. [45] In the post-fight interview with commentator Joe Rogan, McGregor mentioned the UFC Featherweight Championship as his second target in the organisation, saying that”If [the UFC] want, I’ll remove Chad Mendes and step into and give the fans exactly what they want; Aldo vs. McGregor.”
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