Onor’The Notorious’ McGregor will create his Octagon reunite Saturday night to face undefeated lightweight winner Khabib’The Eagle’ Nurmagomedov at the UFC 229 main event at T-Mobile Center in Las Vegas.
This is the fight mixed-martial arts lovers have been waiting for, one which pits two savages on very top of the game and in the prime of their careers. Toss in a great deal of bad blood, a wild bus assault that resulted in McGregor’s arrest in New York City earlier this year, and you get a fantasy matchup that is most likely only the first chapter of the bitter rivalry.
McGregor has just lost once during his 10-fight UFC tenure, falling to Nate Diaz through second-round entry at UFC 194 at a welterweight contest that has been put together on less than two months of notice if 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 in UFC 202. Less than three months after in the UFC’s debut 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, however, McGregor has not stepped foot in the Octagon. He wisely cashed in on a chance to fight Floyd Mayweather on Aug. 26 of 2017. McGregor lost by 10th-round KO to the undefeated Mayweather, but he put up himself for life using a money back that was allegedly in the $100 million neighborhood.
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