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 champion. As of 1 July 2019, he’s ranked #3 in the official UFC lightweight positions and #9 from the official UFC pound-for-pound rankings.
McGregor started his MMA career in 2008 and, in 2012, he won both the Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight Championships, holding both names simultaneously before vacating them to signal with the UFC. In 2015, in UFC 194, he conquered Jos?? Aldo to the UFC Featherweight Championship via knockout 13 minutes to the first round, that’s the fastest 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 maintain titles in two weight divisions simultaneously.
McGregor started his professional boxing career in 2017. In his introduction boxing game, he was defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the largest pay-per-view (PPV) draw in MMA history, with headlined five out of those 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 match with Mayweather drew 4.3 million PPV purchases in North America, the second most in history.On 9 March 2008, McGregor had his first professional MMA bout, as a lightweight, beating Gary Morris using a second-round TKO. After McGregor won his next fight against Mo Taylor, he left his featherweight debut in a loss via submission against Artemij Sitenkov. Following a success at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor contemplated another career path before his mum contacted his coach John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to keep on pursuing mixed martial arts. [25]
McGregor then won his next battle, too at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before going back to lightweight for a struggle against Joseph Duffy, where he received his next professional loss after submitting to an arm-triangle choke. After this, throughout 2011 and 2012, McGregor went on 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 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 in Trinity College and was inundated with requests to signal McGregor to the UFC. After a meeting with McGregor, and talking with UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, White offered him a contract days later.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (2013–present)
2013
UFC introduction In February 2013, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) declared that they had signed McGregor into some multi-fight contract. [27] In joining, McGregor became just the second fighter from Ireland to compete to the firm, after 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 battle aggressively, meeting McGregor at the center of the octagon before starting a flurry of strikes to push him . McGregor, repeatedly throwing a counter left hand, found little success with his initial striking. After ascertaining that Brimage was susceptible to some snap kick directed at his chest and chin, McGregor began to employ a looping left hand uppercut, throwing each single time Brimage would proceed forwards into striking variety. All these uppercuts grounded Brimage shortly after McGregor began to use 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 confront Andy Ogle on 17 August 2013 at UFC Fight Night 26, but Ogle pulled out of the bout citing an accident and has been replaced by Max Holloway. [31] McGregor bewildered Holloway together with his unusual boxing strategy, and his incorporation of a huge variety of taekwondo kicks, a lot of which aren’t utilized in MMA to some significant level. McGregor managed to restrain the striking range using extended, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and knee, and initiate combinations by jumping with bike and switch kicks. After the fight was brought into the ground, McGregor maintained top hands, performing different positional improvements, and mitigating his opponent’s offence on the floor. [32] McGregor won the fight by unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, and 30–26). Following the bout with Holloway, an MRI study showed that McGregor had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during the bout and might require operation, keeping him out of action for up to ten months. [33]
2014
Return after injury McGregor was expected to face 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 this 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 began the fight with a signature turning side kick, before finding his range and successfully landing assorted taekwondo kicks, and left counters. Brand??o, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black buckle, tried to instigate two takedowns, so he could take advantage of his grappling pedigree, but both attempts were avoided by McGregor. Nonetheless, a lot of the struggle was spent on ground, as McGregor achieved a takedown 1:20 to the bout. When the fight returned to the toes in the next minute, McGregor began to use his left hand cross, and began to cut 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 fight went to its fourth second. [36][37] The battle was officially 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]
Prior to his next bout, McGregor met with Lorenzo Fertitta and signed a fresh multi-fight contract with the UFC. McGregor next confronted 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 only four men involved in the pre-fight press conference, alongside the originally scheduled headliners Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier. [40] Part of the anticipation stemmed in the challenge that the match-up introduced: Poirier was McGregor’s first competitor ranked in the UFC’s top ten featherweights. [41][42] Regardless of McGregor landing 9 significant strikes on Poirier’s 10, he was able to secure a victory early on in the first round, by pushing Poirier on his rear foot, before exploding with a left hook behind Poirier’s ear, forcing referee Herb Dean to measure in. The end officially came at 1:46 to 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 cited the UFC Featherweight Championship as his next goal from the organisation, saying that”If [the UFC] desire, I’ll remove Chad Mendes and step into and give the fans exactly what they need; Aldo vs. McGregor.”

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