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Conor McGregor Slams Manny Pacquiao as Mayweather Rematch announcement fails to excite Fight Fans

Conor McGregor and Manny PacquiaoConor McGregor is always looking for a way to extend his rivalry with legendary pugilist Manny Pacquaio. ‘PacMan’ surprised…

Conor McGregor and Manny Pacquiao

Conor McGregor is always looking for a way to extend his rivalry with legendary pugilist Manny Pacquaio.

‘PacMan’ surprised fight fights on New Year’s Eve, revealing that a rematch with Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather was in the works for 2024. Pacquiao dropped the bombshell while making an appearance at RIZIN 45 inside the iconic Saitama Super Arena in Japan. The bout has not been officially announced, but if true, it will come nearly a decade removed from their ‘Fight of the Century’ scrap in 2015.

“I will see you here in Japan again, for a big fight,” the former eight-division world champion said before turning around and seemingly asking for permission to announce his opponent “Floyd Mayweather, I thought you wouldn’t want me to say that. I am excited for that. Thank you for always supporting RIZIN promotions” (h/t DailyMail).

Conor McGregor shared the clip on Instagram whilst taking a dig at Pacquiao, writing: “A lesson in how not to make an announcement.

Conor McGregor makes his own blockbuster announcement

Of course, the Irishman offered his own big New Year’s reveal, confirming that he would make his long-awaited return to the Octagon on June 28 to headline UFC 302 as part of the promotion’s annual International Fight Week in Las Vegas. McGregor is expected to square off with former Bellator MMA champion ‘Iron’ Michael Chandler in a 185-pound showdown.

Weeks before the announcement, McGregor vented his frustration over his lengthy layoff, suggesting that if the UFC didn’t lock down a date for his “greatest comeback in combat sports history,” he would pursue a fight with Pacquiao in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

“Get me back in there,” he told talkSPORT. “The Mac has lots to offer and loads to deliver. They are talking Manny here in Saudi. The lads in the UFC aren’t really talking any. So, the lads here are talking Manny, the UFC aren’t talking any. Give me something. I’m supposed to be back in April. It was supposed to be December!

“Tell Manny to grow a set of balls and fight me at a higher weight class. Why not? It’s his sport. If he wants me to come down to a smaller weight, I should be able to use more of my weapons. I should be able to kick. I should be able to grapple. Shouldn’t that be fair? Say it to him. Is he a man or a mouse? Is Manny a man or a mouse?”

Donald Cerrone Hints At Possible Conor McGregor Fight

After his big win at UFC Denver on Saturday night (Nov. 10, 2018), Donald Cerrone said the UFC had already offered him a name. Now, “Cowboy” is hinting he is waiting on Conor McGregor. Cerrone was visibly emotional when he defeated Mike Perry at UFC Denver last weekend. The 35-year-old “Cowboy” seems to be a […]

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After his big win at UFC Denver on Saturday night (Nov. 10, 2018), Donald Cerrone said the UFC had already offered him a name. Now, “Cowboy” is hinting he is waiting on Conor McGregor.

Cerrone was visibly emotional when he defeated Mike Perry at UFC Denver last weekend. The 35-year-old “Cowboy” seems to be a refocused and re-dedicated fighter. During his UFC Denver post-fight scrum Cerrone said that the UFC had already offered him up a name. Despite pleas from the media Cerrone would not share the name of his next potential opponent.

Cerrone, however, is dropping some hints as to who his next fight may be. Earlier today “Cowboy” shared on Instagram what looked to be a potential money fight with McGregor:

“Cowboy” has stated multiple times that he would be dropping back down to 155 pounds. McGregor fights in that weight class.

Let us know what you think. Is the UFC really considering booking Conor McGregor vs. Donald Cerrone? Or is “Cowboy” just doing his part to hype fights?

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Derrick Lewis Explains Why He Was “Happy” To See UFC 229 Brawl

Derrick Lewis was happy to see that there was a brawl after the UFC 229 headliner.

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Derrick Lewis explains why he was happy to see that there was a massive brawl that was started by Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229. Obviously, this led to chaos breaking out that involved the UFC champ, Conor McGregor, and their respective camps. “The Black Beast” has a good reason for his take on this.

Big Win

As seen in the co-main event of Saturday’s (October 6, 2018) UFC 229 pay-per-view event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Lewis knocked out Alexander Volkov with 11 seconds left in the fight. This was a big fight for Lewis as he was facing someone who many considered to be next in line for a title shot.

In order for this fight to happen, he needed to be healthy enough to accept the fight. Once Lewis gets over the hurdles of that, he had a great chance to cement himself as a top contender in the division and did just that. Lewis has won nine of his last ten fights and before this fight, he scored victories over Marcin Tybura and then Francis Ngannou at the UFC 226 event.

Lewis Explains Why

‘The Black Beast’ made his interesting take when it comes to the brawl after the UFC 229 headliner. The reason that he enjoyed the post-fight brawl was due to it likely increased his chance of getting a post-fight bonus for his knockout of Volkov.

“I thought it was entertaining,” Lewis said on the FS2 post-fight show (H/T to Bloody Elbow). “I was happy to see it.”

Keeps On Winning

Lewis later found out that he did get the Performance of the Night bonus worth $50,000, which meant that his good feeling was right.

“I thought [Nurmagomedov and McGregor] were gonna get the bonus, so I’m sure Dana White is gonna take the bonus from Khabib for that,” Lewis said. “Hopefully they give it to me.”

As a result of this win, Lewis moved his winning streak to three in a row. It will be interesting to see where he goes from here.

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Daniel Cormier Doesn’t Believe Conor McGregor Deserved UFC 229 Attack

Daniel Cormier doesn’t believe that former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor deserved to be attacked following the UFC 229. However, that doesn’t mean that the blame is all on the shoulders of Khabib Nurmagomedov, who made his first successful title defense as UFC lightweight champion. He did just that in the main event […]

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Daniel Cormier doesn’t believe that former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor deserved to be attacked following the UFC 229.

However, that doesn’t mean that the blame is all on the shoulders of Khabib Nurmagomedov, who made his first successful title defense as UFC lightweight champion. He did just that in the main event of Saturday’s UFC 229 pay-per-view event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

It Was Personal

The UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champion went on record by tweeting after this event that Nurmagomedov’s win over McGregor was “really personal” for the Russian champ. Thus, he had a lot of emotions heading into this fight.

Backstory

It should be noted that Cormier is a Nurmagomedov teammate at American Kickboxing Academy and needs to be taken into consideration when reading and understanding the words of DC. According to Cormier, he thinks that several factors played a part in the highly-anticipated lightweight title fight. Thus, the reason why Khabib was so upset after the fight and why things were so heated even afterward.

The Brawl

In case anyone missed it, Nurmagomedov jumped over the cage and attacked McGregor teammate Dillon Danis. This allowed two teammates of Khabib’s getting into the cage where they punched McGregor. This is when all chaos ensued.

Daniel Cormier Doesn’t Believe

“Two wrongs don’t make it right,” Cormier wrote. “Conor didn’t deserve that. No one did. But some things aren’t for fight promotion. Religion, family, country. Throwing stuff in Brooklyn. For Khabib it wasn’t fight promotion, it was really personal. Diff culture man. Sucks.”

Cormier is slated to make his first title defense as UFC heavyweight champion against former champ Brock Lesnar in January of 2019. Although DC has gone on record in the past by stating that he plans to retire in March of next year, he has expressed interest in defending the light heavyweight title again. In fact, now that his arch-rival Jon Jones has been cleared to fight, DC wants to fight Jones for the third time. Time will tell if that fight is booked.

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Conor McGregor Keeping His Eye On Everyone Including GSP & Tyron Woodley

McGregor is keeping a close eye on everyone that includes these two fighters.

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Conor McGregor keeping a close eye on the sport of MMA is something that he has done his entire career and that includes Georges St-Pierre and Tyron Woodley. The former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion is not only looking to regain his 155-pound title but also looking at potentially going to another weight class.

The Names

That weight class would be at welterweight, which is ideal considering that there are two names that he could fight and they have made it known that they would accept if offered. Those fighters are current welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and former middleweight and welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre.

Conor McGregor Keeping

McGregor made it known in an interview given to his own website, The Mac Life that he’s keeping an eye on them as well as the welterweight and lightweight divisions.

It should be noted that GSP has been working on trying to make it to lightweight in the time away from the Octagon since being out since last November. On the flip Side, Woodley is fresh off a title defense over Darren Till last month and is expected to fight Colby Covington when he’s cleared after undergoing surgery.

”I’m already mapping out what’s next in my head,” he said (H/T to MMAMania). “I know Dustin and Nate is competing. I know the 170 pound belt has also just been defended and I know Tyron, the current welterweight champion, is itching for that one. Like they all fookin’ are. I know Georges is in there test cutting to 155. I know everyone’s around looking for it. So I’m here and I’m ready so let’s see what happens. I’ve got my eye on everyone.”

The UFC 229 pay-per-view event is set to take place on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Paulie Malignaggi Goes Off On ‘No Balls’ Conor McGregor Fighting Khabib

There is still some bad blood between McGregor and the former boxer.

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Paulie Malignaggi goes off on former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor about anything he does in the fight game is nothing new.

Their History

The bad blood between Malignaggi and McGregor has been well documented. Malignaggi was brought in as a sparring partner to help McGregor prepare for Floyd Mayweather last year.

As a result of this, Malignaggi was upset with some of the images and videos of posted on McGregor’s social media accounts from their sparring sessions in which ‘Magic Man’ felt he was depicted in a bad light due to the fact that one of the pictures showed McGregor standing over him on the canvas.

McGregor ultimately lost to Mayweather in the tenth round by TKO after being hit by a series of punches against the ropes. Although he lost the fight, the UFC champion surpassed many expectations in his boxing debut.

Paulie Malignaggi Goes Off

McGregor recently posted a photo from where he knocked down Malignaggi while they were sparring. This has led to Malignaggi not only reacting to it but to also giving his prediction for the McGregor’s next fight. The former UFC champ is slated to challenge Nurmagomedov for the lightweight title at the UFC 229 pay-per-view event.

“Here’s the thing about Conor, I’ve said that he has no balls and he has a problem with this fight,” said Malignaggi (transcript courtesy of MMA Fighting). “Khabib is not a guy that will put you out of your misery. Remember the Nate Diaz fight, when he shot in on Nate Diaz and got submitted? Nate Diaz is a guy you don’t want to wind up on the ground with because he’s a black belt in jiu-jitsu. He’ll submit you right away.

The Past

If you’re gonna fight Nate Diaz, you have to keep the fight standing up. In that fight against Nate Diaz though, he’s getting pummeled in round two. He’s probably gonna get pummeled for the rest of the fight, so what does he do?

He needs a way out of it because he doesn’t want to get beat up for four straight rounds. So what does he do? He goes, ‘If I take this fight to the ground, Nate will submit me and then it won’t look like I quit.’ Because if you’re fighting Nate Diaz, common sense tells you that you don’t want to wind up on the ground. Conor is the one that took that fight to the ground. He shot in looking to take that fight to the ground. Why did he do that? Because he’s trying to quit. If Nate puts him in a submission, he can quit and then it looks like ‘Oh well, I had to tap out.’ But really the decision was made when he shot in that he was quitting already.

Khabib’s Strategy

“Now, Khabib is not a guy that’s known as a submission guy. Now, I’m not a mixed martial arts expert, but Khabib is more of a ground and pound guy. Which means you don’t have the option to be submitted really because Khabib will just keep you on the ground and punish you and beat you and beat you and beat you.

Now, granted, Conor has some skills standing up a little bit and maybe Khabib will have a hard time getting it to the ground. But if the fight ends up on the ground, it’s only a beating for Conor. So how is a guy with no balls gonna take a good beating for five rounds when he looks to quit as soon as he gets uncomfortable? That’s the question of the day really.”

Expectations

The UFC 229 pay-per-view event is slated to take place on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main card will air on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card will air on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass.

Malignaggi did give some insight into the fight as he thinks that McGregor will be looking for the easiest way out. There’s a reason for that belief as in the past, elite wrestlers have had success against McGregor. Obviously, Nurmagomedov may be the best in MMA in regards to wrestling.

“The fact is he’s gonna look for a way out of that fight too,” Malignaggi concluded. “Look at round five of the Diaz rematch, he’s literally running for his life. With the fight hanging in the balance, who runs for the entire final round?

He was given the decision in a close decision that could have went either way but who takes that chance though? These are all character flaws of a man with no balls. When you’re a fighter you can tell right away who has character and who doesn’t. The guy has none so he tries to play it up in other ways so he covers up the fact that he has no balls.”

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