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Max Holloway Brutally Trolls Conor McGregor After UFC 218 Win

UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway picked up his second third-round TKO over Jose Aldo in one year when he stopped the 145-pound legend in the main event of last night’s (Sat., December 2, 2017) UFC 218 from the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. After the impressive victory, UFC president Dana White hinted at a rematch […]

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UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway picked up his second third-round TKO over Jose Aldo in one year when he stopped the 145-pound legend in the main event of last night’s (Sat., December 2, 2017) UFC 218 from the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

After the impressive victory, UFC president Dana White hinted at a rematch between Holloway and former UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, who beat a 21-year-old Holloway way back at 2013’s UFC Fight Night 26. Since then, he’s won an unheard-of 12 straight fights, becoming one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in mixed martial arts in the process.

McGregor, on the other hand, won the lightweight title from Eddie Alvarez at 2016’s UFC 205, but was stripped of the 145-pound belt shortly thereafter and has not fought in MMA since after spending all of 2017 fighting Floyd Mayweather in boxing. Perhaps more importantly, he’s been involved in a series of concerning outside-the-cage incidents, jumping into the cage and pushing a referee at Bellator 187 before allegedly being involved in a bar fight with the Irish mob last weekend.

But that didn’t stop him from blasting Holloway after his win on Twitter earlier today as he posted a photo of “Blessed” after he defeated him:

The featherweight champ wasn’t having it, however, as he rapidly fired back at McGregor by suggesting he missed the past because he was now “retired”:

McGregor has been tabbed for a potential title unification fight with interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson, but even White admitted the Irish megastar may never fight again, and also that the UFC is currently in negotiations with McGregor on a new contract, in which he reportedly wants his own promoter’s stake.

That makes McGregor vs. Holloway II an unlikely bout at this point in time, but it’s hard to argue with Holloway’s suggestion at the same time.

Will we ever see McGregor in the Octagon again?

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Conor McGregor: I Still Reign Supreme Over Featherweight

While Conor McGregor has moved on to a boxing matchup with Floyd Mayweather for the moment, the two-time UFC champion will eventually have to come back and defend his lightweight belt, something he failed to do at featherweight. Due to his lack of featherweight title defenses, the Irishman was eventually stripped of the 145-pound belt. […]

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While Conor McGregor has moved on to a boxing matchup with Floyd Mayweather for the moment, the two-time UFC champion will eventually have to come back and defend his lightweight belt, something he failed to do at featherweight.

Due to his lack of featherweight title defenses, the Irishman was eventually stripped of the 145-pound belt.

However, the now-lightweight champ still feels as if he is the top dog at featherweight, despite his absence from the division.

“I mean, how can I not consider myself the UFC featherweight world champion and the UFC lightweight world champion?” McGregor said on Wednesday. “The current UFC featherweight world champion is Max Holloway, a man who I dismantled, and the former was Jose Aldo. I still reign supreme over that division. And then also, the 155-pound division, I know there’s talks of an interim belt — I’d only won that belt, and literally a month later there was an interim scheduled.”

McGregor cleaned house during his rise to the top of the 145-pound division, culminating in a devastating 13-second knockout over longtime divisional kingpin Aldo.

It’s safe to say that his victories over current champ Holloway, former two-time champ Aldo, Dustin Poirier, and Chad Mendes gives him good reason to assume his dominance would continue should he return to the weight class he made his name in.

With his victory over Holloway in mind, McGregor is surprisingly asserting his role as the man who cleared out the division in the weeks leading into his bout with Mayweather.

“But it is what it is, everyone knows I am the multiple-weight world champion of the UFC’s featherweight division and lightweight division, and I look forward to going back and continuing where I left off.”

Do you believe McGregor is still the rightful champion at 145 pounds? Or did he vacate that belt once he won the lightweight championship and successfully pursued a boxing match with Mayweather?

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