When you’re at the top, everyone wants a piece of the action. For the amount of smack talk Conor McGregor dishes out on a daily basis, getting called out is just another day at the office.
Newly minted UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez has expressed his intent to fight the winner of this coming weekend’s UFC 202’s main event showdown between McGregor and Nate Diaz.
McGregor however, took time out to remind media that he is the sport’s modern-day crutch and put both Alvarez and UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley on blast.
One thing McGregor knows how to do is talk. To him, it’s part of ways to break an opponent down.
“I came in and I brought it all. I broke every record and then began demanding everything,” said McGregor, reiterating his various achievements in the Octagon.
“I just feel they (Alvarez and Woodley) are bums. 95-percent of the game is bums.”
McGregor is coming from a place of self-confidence and he does have a point. He came from the bowels of the sport and launched straight to the top of it in just a few short years. In many respects, it does seem like he came completely out of nowhere.
Despite the UFC’s sometimes rocky relationship with “The Notorious”, there’s no denying his star quality and absolute talent.
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In an age of fallen champions, McGregor stands out as a man who doesn’t need a belt to be relevant to the sport. Whenever a star no longer requires hardware, that’s when he truly shines.
So when McGregor calls other fighters bums, you know where he’s coming from.
“I’ll leave them to it. I don’t even pay attention to it. Right now, here I am, couple days out from a big one,” said McGregor, whom UFC President Dana White says will return to the featherweight division following the bout with Diaz.
“I’ll talk about what’s next and who’s next and all those other guys talking after the fight.”
