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PIC: So apparently Conor McGregor is now training with a man mountain ahead of UFC 194

Published 19:59 30 Oct 2015 GMT

Updated 14:19 31 Oct 2015 GMT

Darragh Murphy
PIC: So apparently Conor McGregor is now training with a man mountain ahead of UFC 194

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Luckily for the UFC's heavyweights, Hafthór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson is about 150 lbs too heavy to make the 265 lbs weight limit.

The Icelandic actor and weight-lifter, famous for playing The Mountain in HBO's Game of Thrones, visited Dublin's SBG on Friday to train with the likes of UFC fighters Conor McGregor and Gunnar Nelson. Overnight McGregor shared this picture of the two men squaring up for a bare knuckle fight, with McGregor (understandably) stating he had never fought a man that big before. We wonder who took the initiative: did the Mountain come to McGregor, or did McGregor have to go to the mountain? https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/660290872311947264 McGregor and Nelson aren't exactly small men but they look like absolute children stood next to the 6 ft 9 in behemoth. https://instagram.com/p/9eOn-_gegb/?taken-by=gunninelson We don't think there's any need to equip a monster like this with any more tools to kill a man. SBG head coach John Kavanagh claims to have known nothing about the David and Goliath match-up but we can't quite imagine this man mountain being sneaked into any gym. https://twitter.com/John_Kavanagh/status/660402088749481984?lang=en

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PIC: So apparently Conor McGregor is now training with a man mountain ahead of UFC 194