Irish MMA celebrity, Conor McGregor, is likely one of the biggest fighters UFC has ever signed. Other than his very good abilities contained in the octagon, his trash-talking and flashy look introduced him stellar success. ExpressVPN just lately carried out a examine on the most streamed sports, and it confirmed that each time McGregor headlined a combat, there was an enormous spike in streaming UFC. Actually, in 2018, his combat towards the Dagestani star, Khabib Nurmagomedov, at UFC 229 broke all information in pay-per-view earnings, bringing the UFC a whopping 2,4 million buys.
McGregor’s boxing debut
McGregor managed to popularize MMA swiftly and shortly grew to become extra important than the game itself. After profitable the title within the featherweight and light-weight classes and turning into the primary UFC fighter to carry the title in two weight courses, McGregor began speaking extra continuously about beginning his skilled profession in boxing. His choice got here as no shock since his success was primarily constructed upon his hanging dominance.
This ultimately led to his first boxing combat towards Floyd Mayweather in 2017, the place Mayweather received by technical knockout within the tenth spherical. At first, it appeared just like the Irishman might truly pull it off, and he received the primary three rounds, however extra skilled Mayweather took a extra aggressive strategy and wore McGregor down by the tip of the combat.
The combat aftermath
After the combat with Mayweather, McGregor returned to UFC’s octagon, the place he suffered three losses out of 4 fights. In his final combat towards Dustin Poirier in 2021, he broke his left leg and remains to be recovering. Despite the fact that Conor’s medical doctors acknowledged his restoration goes easily, and Dana White disclosed we’d see the Irishman within the octagon fairly quickly, no official bulletins have been made. Now it’s evident that we’ll most likely have to attend till 2023 to see if McGregor can repair his dangerous UFC rating.
The comeback predictions
In latest media statements, McGregor was virtually solely targeted on his MMA comeback. Nonetheless, he additionally acknowledged that boxing is his first love and that he’ll most definitely step into the ring once more in his profession. However, Mayweather just lately revealed that the rematch towards the Irishman is already confirmed for 2023, stating he prefers these simpler fights towards opponents and not using a boxing background as a result of he’s struggling much less injury. Despite the fact that Dana White dismissed these rumors, saying he has zero curiosity in seeing McGregor and Mayweather boxing once more, everyone knows cash fights like this one are unattainable to say no to.
Other than Mayweather, different huge boxing names have been calling out Mcgregor and providing him an opportunity to the touch boxing gloves with them. Apparently, IBO’s light-middleweight champion Dennis Hogan has reached out to a fellow countryman and supplied him a title shot. Despite the fact that we haven’t heard from McGregor but, many have taken McGregor’s sparing movies on social media to point that the all-Irish combat could already be booked.
Though McGregor’s UFC comeback appears extra life like proper now, it seems to be just like the alternatives to step into the boxing ring are much more thrilling than we initially thought. They attain out additional than cash fights with Mayweather.
