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 is the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight champion. As of 1 July 2019, he’s ranked #3 at the official UFC lightweight rankings and #9 from the official UFC pound-for-pound ranks.
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 with the UFC. In 2015, in UFC 194, he conquered Jos?? Aldo to the UFC Featherweight Championship via knockout 13 minutes to the first round, that’s the fastest 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 hold titles in two weight divisions simultaneously.
McGregor began his professional boxing career in 2017. In his debut boxing match, he had been conquered by Floyd Mayweather Jr.He is the largest pay-per-view (PPV) draw in MMA history, with headlined five out of the 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 game with Mayweather drew 4.3 million PPV purchases in North America, the second most from history.On 9 March 2008, McGregor had his first pro 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 introduction in a loss via entry against Artemij Sitenkov. After a success at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor contemplated another career path before his mum contacted his coach John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to keep on pursuing mixed martial arts. [25]
McGregor then won his second fight, also at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before going back to lightweight to get a fight against Joseph Duffy, where he obtained his next expert loss after submitting to an arm-triangle choke. After this, throughout 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 names in two divisions simultaneously. In February 2013, UFC president Dana White chose to Dublin, Ireland to receive a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage in Trinity College and was inundated with requests to sign McGregor to the UFC. Following a meeting McGregor, and speaking with UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, White offered him a contract days later.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (2013–gift )
2013
UFC debut In February 2013, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) declared that they had signed McGregor into some multi-fight contract. [27] In joining, McGregor became only the second fighter out of Ireland to compete to the company, after fellow SBG team member Tom Egan.
On April 2013, McGregor made his UFC debut against Marcus Brimage on the preliminary card of UFC on Fuel TV: Mousasi vs. Latifi. [28] Brimage began the fight 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 some snap kick directed in his chest and chin, McGregor began to apply a looping left hand uppercut, throwing every single time Brimage would move forward into striking variety. All these uppercuts grounded Brimage soon after McGregor began to use them. The bout was stopped 1:07 to the first round. [29] The win also earned McGregor his first”Knockout of the Night” award. [30]
McGregor was expected to face Andy Ogle on 17 August 2013 in UFC Fight Night 26, but Ogle pulled from this bout citing an injury and was replaced by Max Holloway. [31] McGregor bewildered Holloway with his unusual boxing strategy, and his incorporation of a wide variety of taekwondo kicks, a lot of which aren’t utilized in MMA to some substantial level. McGregor was able to restrain the striking range by using long, non-committal low side kicks to Holloway’s knee and shin, and commence combinations by jumping in with bike and switch kicks. After the fight was brought into the ground, McGregor maintained top hands, performing different positional improvements, 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 scan revealed that McGregor had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) throughout the bout and might require operation, keeping him out of action for up to ten weeks. [33]
2014
Return after injury McGregor was expected to confront Cole Miller on 19 July 2014 at UFC Fight Night 46 within his comeback bout after recovering from his ACL injury. [34] However, Miller pulled out of this bout citing a thumb injury and has been replaced by Diego Brand??o. [35] McGregor fought Brand??o facing a loud, rowdy crowd of 9,500 at The O2 in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland. McGregor started the fight with a signature turning side kick, before finding his range and successfully landing various taekwondo kicks, and left hand counters. Brand??o, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black buckle, attempted to instigate two takedowns, so that he could make use of his grappling pedigree, but both attempts were avoided by McGregor. Nonetheless, much of the fight was spent on ground, as McGregor achieved a takedown 1:20 into the bout. When the battle returned to the feet in the third minute, McGregor started to use his left hand cross, and began to cut the cage. Brand??o, trapped between the octagon and McGregor, fell to his side after being struck by the other left hand cross as the struggle went into its fourth second. [36][37] The fight was officially halted by referee Leon Roberts at 4:05 of the very first round. The win earned McGregor his first”Performance of the Night” award. [38]
Before his next bout, McGregor met with Lorenzo Fertitta and signed up a fresh multi-fight contract with the UFC. McGregor next faced Dustin Poirier on 27 September 2014 in 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 press conference, alongside the originally 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 opponent 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 victory early on in the first round, by pressuring Poirier on his rear foot, before bursting with a left hook supporting Poirier’s ear, forcing referee Herb Dean to step in. The finish officially came at 1:46 into the first round. [43][44] This marked Poirier’s first UFC reduction via KO/TKO, also got McGregor his second straight”Performance of the Night” award. [45] In the post-fight interview with commentator Joe Rogan, McGregor cited the UFC Featherweight Championship as his next target from the organisation, saying that”If [the UFC] desire, I will remove Chad Mendes and step into and give the fans what they want; Aldo vs. McGregor.”

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