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's the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight champion. As of 1 July 2019, he is ranked #3 at the official UFC lightweight positions and #9 from the official UFC pound-for-pound ranks.
McGregor started his MMA career in 2008 and, in 2012, he won both the Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight Championships, holding both titles simultaneously before vacating them to sign 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 victory 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 match, he had been conquered 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 occasions. His headline bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov at 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 purchases in North America, the next most from history.On 9 March 2008, McGregor had his first professional MMA bout, as a lightweight, beating Gary Morris with a second-round TKO. Following McGregor won his second battle against Mo Taylor, he left his featherweight debut in a reduction via entry against Artemij Sitenkov. Following a success at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor contemplated a different career path prior to his mother contacted his trainer John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to keep on pursuing combined 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 received his second professional loss after submitting to an arm-triangle choke. Following this, during 2011 and 2012, McGregor went on an eight-fight winning series,[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 branches simultaneously. In February 2013, UFC president Dana White chose to Dublin, Ireland to Be Given a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage in Trinity College and was inundated with requests to sign 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 debut In February 2013, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced that they had signed McGregor to some multi-fight contract. [27] In joining, McGregor became only the second fighter out of Ireland to compete to the firm, following fellow SBG team member Tom Egan.
On 6 April 2013, McGregor made his UFC debut against Marcus Brimage about the first card card of UFC on Fuel TV: Mousasi vs. Latifi. [28] Brimage began the battle aggressively, meeting McGregor at the middle 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 ascertaining that Brimage was vulnerable to a snap kick directed at his chest and chin, McGregor started to employ a looping left hand uppercut, throwing each time Brimage would proceed forwards into striking range. All these uppercuts grounded Brimage shortly after McGregor began to utilize 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 expected to confront Andy Ogle on 17 August 2013 in UFC Fight Night 26, but Ogle pulled out of this bout citing an injury and was replaced by Max Holloway. [31] McGregor bewildered Holloway together with his unusual boxing technique, and his incorporation of a wide variety of taekwondo kicks, a lot of which aren't utilized in MMA to a significant level. McGregor managed to control the striking range using long, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway's knee and knee, and initiate mixes by jumping with bike and switch kicks. When the fight was brought into the floor, McGregor maintained high control, 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). Following the bout with Holloway, an MRI study revealed that McGregor had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during the bout and would 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 at UFC Fight Night 46 within his comeback bout after recovering from his ACL injury. [34] But, Miller pulled out of the bout mentioning 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 started the struggle with a signature spinning side kick, before finding his range and landing various taekwondo kicks, and left hand counters. Brand??o, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, tried to instigate two takedowns, so he could take advantage of his grappling pedigree, but both efforts were averted by McGregor. Nonetheless, much of the struggle was spent on ground, as McGregor achieved a takedown 1:20 into the bout. After the fight returned to the feet in the next minute, McGregor began to employ his left hand crossover, and began 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 fight went into its fourth minute. [36][37] The battle has been formally halted by Faith 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 a new multi-fight contract with the UFC. McGregor next faced Dustin Poirier on 27 September 2014 at 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 in the pre-fight media conference, alongside the initially scheduled headliners Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier. [40] Part of the anticipation stemmed in the challenge the match-up posed: 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 in the first round, by pressuring Poirier on his back foot, before exploding with a left hook behind Poirier's ear, forcing referee Herb Dean to step in. The end officially came at 1:46 to the first round. [43][44] This marked Poirier's initial UFC loss via KO/TKO, and earned 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 from the organisation, stating that"If [the UFC] desire, I will eliminate Chad Mendes and step in and give the fans exactly what they need; Aldo vs. McGregor."

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