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 champion. As of 1 July 2019, he’s ranked #3 at the official UFC lightweight positions and #9 in the official UFC pound-for-pound rankings.
McGregor began 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 together with the UFC. In 2015, in UFC 194, he defeated Jos?? Aldo to the UFC Featherweight Championship via knockout 13 seconds into the first round, that’s the quickest success in UFC title fight 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 started his professional boxing career in 2017. In his introduction boxing game, he had been conquered by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the largest pay-per-view (PPV) draw MMA history, with headlined five from 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 attracted 4.3 million PPV buys in North America, the second most in history.On 9 March 2008, McGregor had his first professional MMA bout, as a lightweight, defeating Gary Morris using a second-round TKO. Following McGregor won his second fight against Mo Taylor, he made his featherweight debut in a reduction via submission 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 continue pursuing mixed martial arts. [25]
McGregor then won his second battle, also at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before going back to lightweight for a fight 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 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 titles 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 into the UFC. After a meeting with 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 some multi-fight contract. [27] In linking, McGregor became only the second fighter from Ireland to compete to 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 at the center of the octagon before starting a flurry of strikes to push him . McGregor, repeatedly throwing a counter left hand, seen little success with his initial striking. After discovering that Brimage was susceptible to some snap kick directed at his chest and torso, McGregor started to employ a looping left hand uppercut, throwing every single time Brimage would move forwards into striking variety. These uppercuts grounded Brimage shortly after McGregor started 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 injury 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 are not utilized in MMA to some significant degree. McGregor was able to control the striking range using extended, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and knee, and initiate mixes by leaping in with bike and switch kicks. After the fight was brought into the ground, McGregor maintained top hands, performing various positional advances, and mitigating his competitor’s exemptions on the ground. [32] McGregor won the fight by unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, and 30–26). After the bout with Holloway, an MRI study revealed that McGregor had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) throughout the bout and would require surgery, 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 from this bout mentioning 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 began the struggle 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 belt, attempted to instigate two takedowns, so that he could make use of his grappling pedigree, but both efforts were averted by McGregor. Nonetheless, much of the fight was spent on the ground, as McGregor achieved a takedown 1:20 to the bout. After the fight returned to the toes in the next minute, McGregor began to use his left hand crossover, and began to cut the cage. Brand??o, trapped between the octagon and McGregor, dropped to his side after being hit with the other left hand crossover as the struggle went to its fourth minute. [36][37] The battle has been 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]
Before his next bout, McGregor met with Lorenzo Fertitta and signed a new 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, 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 this anticipation stemmed from the challenge that the match-up introduced: Poirier was McGregor’s first opponent ranked in the UFC’s top ten featherweights. [41][42] Regardless of McGregor landing 9 significant strikes on Poirier’s 10, he managed to secure a victory early in the first round, by pressuring Poirier on his rear foot, before exploding with a left hook supporting Poirier’s ear, forcing referee Herb Dean to measure in. The end officially came at 1:46 into the first round. [43][44] This marked Poirier’s first UFC loss via KO/TKO, also 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 goal from the organisation, stating that“If [the UFC] desire, I’ll eliminate Chad Mendes and step into and give the fans exactly what they need; Aldo vs. McGregor.“
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