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’s the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight winner. As of 1 July 2019, he’s ranked #3 in the official UFC lightweight rankings and #9 in the official UFC pound-for-pound rankings.
McGregor began his MMA career in 2008 as well as in 2012, he won both the Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight Championships, holding both titles 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 success in UFC title 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 began his professional boxing career in 2017. In his debut boxing match, he was defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the biggest pay-per-view (PPV) draw in MMA history, with headlined five out of 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 attracted 4.3 million PPV buys in North America, the second most from history.On 9 March 2008, McGregor had his first pro MMA bout, as a lightweight, beating Gary Morris with a second-round TKO. After McGregor won his second battle against Mo Taylor, he left his featherweight introduction in a loss via submission against Artemij Sitenkov. After a success at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor considered a different career path prior to his mum contacted his trainer John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to keep on pursuing combined martial arts. [25]
McGregor then won his next battle, too at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before moving back to lightweight to get a fight 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 to an eight-fight winning streak,[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 chose to Dublin, Ireland to receive a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College and has been inundated with requests to signal McGregor to the UFC. Following a meeting McGregor, and talking with UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, White offered him a contract later.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (2013–gift )
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 only the second fighter from Ireland to compete to the company, 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 middle of the octagon before launching 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 susceptible to some snap kick directed at his chest and torso, McGregor began to employ a looping left hand uppercut, throwing every single time Brimage would move forwards into striking range. All these uppercuts grounded Brimage soon after McGregor began to use 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 in UFC Fight Night 26, but Ogle pulled out of the bout citing an accident and was replaced by Max Holloway. [31] McGregor bewildered Holloway with his unusual boxing technique, and his incorporation of a huge array of taekwondo kicks, a lot of which aren’t used in MMA to a significant degree. McGregor was able to control the striking range by using extended, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and knee, and commence mixes by jumping with switch and bicycle kicks. When the fight was brought into the ground, McGregor maintained top hands, performing different 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). Following the bout with Holloway, an MRI scan revealed 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 months. [33]
2014
Return after trauma 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] But, Miller pulled out of the bout citing a thumb injury and was replaced by Diego Brand??o. [35] McGregor fought Brand??o in front of a loud, rowdy crowd of 9,500 at The O2 in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland. McGregor started the struggle with a touch spinning side kick, before finding his range and landing various taekwondo kicks, and left counters. Brand??o, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black buckle, tried to instigate two takedowns, so that he could make use of his grappling pedigree, but both efforts were avoided by McGregor. Nonetheless, much of the struggle was spent on ground, as McGregor achieved a takedown 1:20 into the bout. After the battle returned to the toes in the third minute, McGregor started to employ his left hand cross, and started to cut the cage. Brand??o, trapped between the octagon and McGregor, dropped to his side after being struck by another left hand cross as the struggle went to its fourth second. [36][37] The battle has been 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]
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, with McGregor and Poirier just two of just four men involved in the pre-fight press conference, alongside the initially scheduled headliners Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier. [40] Part of this expectancy stemmed in the challenge the match-up posed: Poirier was McGregor’s first opponent ranked in the UFC’s top ten featherweights. [41][42] Regardless of McGregor landing 9 significant strikes to Poirier’s 10, he was able to secure a success early on in the first round, by pushing Poirier onto his back foot, before bursting with a left hook behind Poirier’s ear, forcing referee Herb Dean to measure in. The finish officially came at 1:46 to the first round. [43][44] This marked Poirier’s initial 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] desire, I’ll eliminate Chad Mendes and step in and give the fans exactly what they need; Aldo vs. McGregor.”
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