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 boxer. He’s 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 started 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 together with the UFC. In 2015, at UFC 194, he conquered Jos?? Aldo to the UFC Featherweight Championship via knockout 13 minutes to the first round, that’s the quickest victory in UFC title history. Upon beating Eddie Alvarez for the UFC Lightweight Championship at 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 had been defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the biggest pay-per-view (PPV) draw MMA history, having headlined five out of those six highest-selling UFC pay-per-view events. His headline bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov in UFC 229 drew 2.4 million PPV purchases, the most ever for an MMA event. His boxing match 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 using a second-round TKO. After McGregor won his second fight against Mo Taylor, he made his featherweight introduction in a reduction via entry against Artemij Sitenkov. Following a victory at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor considered another career path before his mum contacted his trainer John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to keep on pursuing mixed martial arts. [25]
McGregor then won his next battle, also at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before moving back to lightweight to get a struggle against Joseph Duffy, where he obtained his next professional reduction after submitting to an arm-triangle choke. After this, throughout 2011 and 2012, McGregor went to an eight-fight winning streak,[26] through which he won both the CWFC Featherweight and Lightweight championships, making him the first European professional mixed martial artist to hold names in two divisions simultaneously. In February 2013, UFC president Dana White made a trip to Dublin, Ireland to Be Given a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage in Trinity College and has been inundated with requests to sign McGregor to the UFC. After a meeting with McGregor, and speaking 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) declared that they had signed McGregor to some multi-fight contract. [27] In linking, McGregor became only the second fighter out of 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 preliminary card of UFC on Fuel TV: Mousasi vs. Latifi. [28] Brimage started the battle aggressively, meeting McGregor in the center of the octagon before launching a flurry of strikes to push him . McGregor, repeatedly throwing a counter left hand, found little success with his first striking. After ascertaining that Brimage was vulnerable to some snap kick directed in his chest and chin, McGregor started to apply a looping left hand uppercut, throwing each time Brimage would move forward into striking range. All these uppercuts grounded Brimage shortly after McGregor began to use them. The bout was stopped 1:07 into the first round. [29] The win also earned McGregor his first”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 the bout citing an injury and was replaced by Max Holloway. [31] McGregor bewildered Holloway together with his unusual boxing strategy, and his incorporation of a wide variety of taekwondo kicks, many of which are not utilized in MMA to some significant degree. McGregor managed to restrain the striking range using extended, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and knee, and initiate combinations by leaping with bike and switch kicks. After the battle was brought to the ground, McGregor maintained high control, performing various 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 revealed that McGregor had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during the bout and might require surgery, keeping him out of action for up to ten weeks. [33]
2014
Return after trauma McGregor was expected to confront Cole Miller on 19 July 2014 in UFC Fight Night 46 in his comeback bout after recovering from his ACL injury. [34] But, Miller pulled from this bout mentioning a thumb injury and was replaced by Diego Brand??o. [35] McGregor fought Brand??o facing 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 make use of his grappling pedigree, but both attempts were avoided by McGregor. Nonetheless, a lot of the struggle was spent on the ground, as McGregor achieved a takedown 1:20 into the bout. After the fight returned to the feet in the third minute, McGregor began to employ his left hand crossover, and started to cut the cage. Brand??o, trapped between the octagon and McGregor, fell to his side after being struck by the other left hand crossover as the fight went to its fourth minute. [36][37] The fight was officially halted by referee Leon Roberts at 4:05 of the very first round. The win 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 among the most anticipated fights on the UFC 178 card, with McGregor and Poirier two of just four men involved in the pre-fight media conference, together with the originally scheduled headliners Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier. [40] Part of the expectancy 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 success early on in the first round, by pushing Poirier onto his rear foot, before exploding with a left hook supporting 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 first UFC reduction via KO/TKO, and got McGregor his second straight”Performance of the Night” award. [45] From the post-fight interview with commentator Joe Rogan, McGregor cited the UFC Featherweight Championship as his next target in the organisation, stating that”If [the UFC] desire, I’ll eliminate Chad Mendes and step in and give the fans exactly what they want; Aldo vs. McGregor.”

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