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 boxer. He is the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight champion. As of 1 July 2019, he is ranked #3 in the official UFC lightweight positions and #9 in the official UFC pound-for-pound ranks.
McGregor began his MMA career in 2008 as well as in 2012, he won both the Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight Championships, holding both names simultaneously before vacating them to sign together with the UFC. In 2015, in UFC 194, he conquered Jos?? Aldo for the UFC Featherweight Championship via knockout 13 minutes to the first round, which is the quickest success in UFC title 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 game, he was defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the largest pay-per-view (PPV) draw MMA history, with headlined five from the six highest-selling UFC pay-per-view occasions. His headline bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov in UFC 229 drew 2.4 million PPV buys, the most ever for an MMA event. His boxing match with Mayweather attracted 4.3 million PPV purchases in North America, the next most in 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 next fight against Mo Taylor, he made his featherweight introduction in a reduction via entry against Artemij Sitenkov. After a success at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor contemplated another career path before his mother contacted his trainer John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to keep on pursuing combined martial arts. [25]
McGregor then won his second fight, too at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before moving back to lightweight for a fight against Joseph Duffy, where he obtained his second expert loss after submitting to an arm-triangle choke. Following this, during 2011 and 2012, McGregor went on 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 carry names in two branches simultaneously. Back in February 2013, UFC president Dana White chose to Dublin, Ireland to Be Given a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College and has been inundated with requests to signal McGregor to the UFC. After a meeting with McGregor, and speaking with UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, White offered him a contract days later.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (2013–gift )
2013
UFC introduction In February 2013, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) declared that they had signed McGregor to some multi-fight contract. [27] In joining, McGregor became only the second fighter from Ireland to compete for 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 fight aggressively, meeting McGregor at the center 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 first striking. After ascertaining that Brimage was vulnerable to a snap kick directed at his chest and chin, McGregor began to apply a looping left hand uppercut, throwing every single time Brimage would move forward into striking range. 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 expected to face Andy Ogle on 17 August 2013 in UFC Fight Night 26, but Ogle pulled from 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 array of taekwondo kicks, a lot of which aren’t utilized in MMA to a significant level. McGregor managed to restrain the striking range by using extended, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and knee, and initiate combinations by jumping with switch and bicycle kicks. When the fight was brought to the ground, McGregor maintained high hands, performing different 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 might require surgery, 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] 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 fight with a touch turning side kick, before finding his range and successfully landing assorted taekwondo kicks, and left hand 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 avoided by McGregor. Nonetheless, a lot of the fight was spent on the ground, as McGregor attained a takedown 1:20 to the bout. When the fight returned to the toes in the third minute, McGregor began to employ his left hand cross, and started to cut off the cage. Brand??o, trapped between the octagon and McGregor, fell to his side after being hit by another left hand crossover as the fight went into its fourth minute. [36][37] The fight was officially halted by Faith Leon Roberts at 4:05 of the first round. The triumph earned McGregor his first“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 in UFC 178. [39] The bout was one of the most anticipated fights on the UFC 178 card, together with McGregor and Poirier two of just four men involved with the pre-fight press conference, together with the initially 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 to Poirier’s 10, he managed to secure a victory early on in the first round, by pressuring 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 initial UFC reduction via KO/TKO, and got 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, stating that“If [the UFC] want, I will eliminate Chad Mendes and step in and give the fans what they need; Aldo vs. McGregor.“
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