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Published 13:04 28 Apr 2015 BST
Updated 13:08 28 Apr 2015 BST
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'Man, I don't know how this guy thinks that. He flatters himself too much. I don't see any way [McGregor could beat me]. 'I can stop the fight with him in my closed guard, I can stop [the fight] on bottom. Whatever position he wants. There's no way he can beat me. I don't see, like any way. 'He's a good fighter, but he needs to take care of the featherweight division first. Man, lightweight division is a shark tank, you know? He better stay in featherweight division.'The jump to lightweight, where McGregor held a [CWFC] world title outside the UFC franchise, is a move the Dubliner wants to make sooner rather than later. In March, he told MMA Fighting, 'The featherweights beg for pardon, beg for forgiveness. If that’s the case, if they apologise and beg, I’ll leave the division. I won’t terrorise them anymore. They can have their division back. They can go back to being on the prelims and I’ll go to the lightweight division.' At the UFC world tour event in Dublin, earlier this month, McGregor also name-dropped 'RDA' as another Brazilian he would dethrone after he takes Jose Also's title.
Former UFC fighter shot dead while out for evening walk
It’s believed to have been a targeted attack. Former UFC fighter , Suman Mokhtarian, has been shot dead. The ex-MMA fight was shot in a ‘brazen’ and ‘targeted’ daylight attack while taking an early evening walk, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Mokhtarian was shot in the upper body and was unable to be revived by […]
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