Onor’The Notorious’ McGregor will make his Octagon return Saturday night to face undefeated lightweight champion Khabib’The Eagle’ Nurmagomedov at the UFC 229 main event at T-Mobile Center at Las Vegas.
This is the battle mixed-martial arts lovers have been waiting for, one which pits two savages on very top of their game and in the prime of their livelihood. Toss in a ton of bad blood, a crazy bus assault that resulted in McGregor’s arrest in New York City earlier this season, and you get a fantasy matchup that’s probably only the first chapter of the bitter rivalry.
McGregor has only lost once through his 10-fight UFC tenure, falling to Nate Diaz through second-round submission at UFC 194 at a welterweight contest that has been put together on less than two weeks of note when then-lightweight champ Rafael dos Anjos was forced off the card due to a foot injury.
The Dubliner avenged that defeat with a majority-decision victory in their rematch at UFC 202. Less than three months later in the UFC’s introduction in NYC at Madison Square Garden, McGregor scored a second-round knockout win over Eddie Alvarez to capture the advertising’s 155-pound strap.
Since the Nov. 12 of 2016 triumph over Alvarez, nevertheless, McGregor has not stepped foot in the Octagon. He sensibly cashed in on a opportunity to fight Floyd Mayweather on Aug. 26 of 2017. McGregor dropped by 10th-round KO into the undefeated Mayweather, but he put himself up for life using a money back that has been allegedly in the $100 million neighborhood.
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