UFC boss Dana White didn't make it to the post-fight press conferences but maybe he just needed time to digest Conor McGregor's incredible first-minute destruction of Jose Aldo.
The UFC president reflected on a record-breaking night for the company at UFC 194, and was asked for his immediate reaction to McGregor's lightning finish.
'Holy shit!' White replied.
'I mean, there's nothing else to think. I thought it was going to be like Hagler-Hearns, a knock-down, drag-em-out... But Conor caught him on the chin and that was the end of it.'
White also revealed that he expected the new champion to move up to lightweight for a possible title shot against the winner of next weekend's Rafael Dos Anjos-Donald Cerrone battle, rather than face the next man up at featherweight, Frankie Edgar, who has already begun campaigning for a bout with McGregor.
'[McGregor] had a hard time making that weight. Actually, [coach John] Kavanagh said "I don't ever want him making that weight again. It's hard for him and I don't want him to do it again". I think he's going to move to '55.
'It literally rained on Frankie Edgar's world when I told him that. Yeah, Edgar was pretty bummed about it. We'll see what Conor decides to do, if he decides to make the weight, not make the weight, whatever.'
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