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 is ranked #3 at the official UFC lightweight positions and #9 from the official UFC pound-for-pound ranks.
McGregor started his MMA career in 2008 as well as in 2012, he won both the Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight Championships, holding both titles concurrently before vacating them to sign with the UFC. In 2015, in UFC 194, he defeated Jos?? Aldo for the UFC Featherweight Championship via knockout 13 seconds into the first round, that’s the quickest success in UFC title fight history. Upon defeating Eddie Alvarez for the UFC Lightweight Championship in UFC 205, McGregor became the first fighter in UFC history to maintain titles in two weight divisions simultaneously.
McGregor began his professional boxing career in 2017. In his introduction boxing match, he was conquered by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the largest pay-per-view (PPV) draw in MMA history, having headlined five from the six highest-selling UFC pay-per-view events. 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 attracted 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 with a second-round TKO. After McGregor won his second fight against Mo Taylor, he left his featherweight introduction in a reduction via submission against Artemij Sitenkov. After a victory at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor contemplated another career path prior to his mother contacted his coach John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to continue pursuing combined martial arts. [25]
McGregor then won his next battle, too at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before moving back to lightweight for a struggle against Joseph Duffy, where he obtained his next expert loss after submitting to an arm-triangle choke. Following this, throughout 2011 and 2012, McGregor went to an eight-fight winning series,[26] through which he won both the CWFC Featherweight and Lightweight championships, making him the first European professional mixed martial artist to carry titles in two divisions 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 sign McGregor into the UFC. After a meeting McGregor, and talking with UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, White offered him a contract later.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (2013–present)
2013
UFC introduction In February 2013, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced that they had signed McGregor to a multi-fight contract. [27] In joining, McGregor became just the second fighter out of Ireland to compete to the firm, following fellow SBG team member Tom Egan.
On 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 started 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 initial striking. After ascertaining that Brimage was vulnerable to some snap kick directed at his chest and chin, McGregor began to apply a looping left hand uppercut, throwing every time Brimage would move forward into striking variety. All these uppercuts grounded Brimage shortly after McGregor began to utilize them. The bout was stopped 1:07 to 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 from the bout citing an injury and has been replaced by Max Holloway. [31] McGregor bewildered Holloway together with his unusual boxing technique, and his incorporation of a huge variety of taekwondo kicks, many of which are not used in MMA to some substantial degree. McGregor managed to restrain the striking range using extended, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and shin, and commence mixes by jumping with switch and bicycle kicks. After the fight was brought into the floor, McGregor maintained high control, performing various positional advances, 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 operation, keeping him out of action for up to ten weeks. [33]
2014
Return after injury McGregor was expected to confront Cole Miller on 19 July 2014 in UFC Fight Night 46 within his comeback bout after recovering from his ACL injury. [34] However, Miller pulled out of the bout mentioning 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 began the fight with a touch spinning side kick, before finding his range and landing various taekwondo kicks, and left hand counters. Brand??o, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black buckle, attempted to instigate two takedowns, so he could make use of his grappling pedigree, but both attempts were averted by McGregor. Nonetheless, a lot of the struggle was spent on the ground, as McGregor attained a takedown 1:20 into the bout. When the battle returned to the feet in the next minute, McGregor started to use his left hand cross, and began to cut the cage. Brand??o, trapped between the octagon and McGregor, dropped to his side after being struck with the other left hand cross as the fight went into its fourth minute. [36][37] The battle has been officially halted by referee Leon Roberts at 4:05 of the first round. The win earned McGregor his first”Performance of the Night” award. [38]
Prior to his next bout, McGregor met with Lorenzo Fertitta and signed up a fresh multi-fight contract with the UFC. McGregor next faced Dustin Poirier on 27 September 2014 at UFC 178. [39] The bout was among the most anticipated fights on the UFC 178 card, together with McGregor and Poirier two of just four men involved with the pre-fight media conference, alongside the initially scheduled headliners Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier. [40] Part of the anticipation stemmed in the challenge that 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 managed to secure a success early on in the first round, by pressuring Poirier on his rear foot, before exploding with a left hook behind Poirier’s ear, forcing referee Herb Dean to step in. The end officially came at 1:46 into the first round. [43][44] This marked Poirier’s first UFC reduction 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, stating that”If [the UFC] want, I’ll eliminate Chad Mendes and step into and give the fans what they need; Aldo vs. McGregor.”
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