He has spoken.
When Conor McGregor said it was going to take an army to take them belts off him, he wasn't lying.
The Notorious did a Q&A in The Devenish bar in Belfast last night. It's the first time he's spoken publicly since the UFC announced that he had relinquished his featherweight title.
He didn't hold back any punches in his assessment of the UFC's decision to award Jose Aldo the featherweight title and put an interim belt on the line for Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis.
“I also have something going on with the UFC, they’re trying to strip me and I was like, ‘Well, I ain’t stripped. I still got that belt, that belt is still at home right now’,” McGregor said. “I’m still the two-weight world champion, someone has to come take that from me. I see articles, I see stuff online, but I don’t see the belt not in my presence. The belt is right there, there’s two world titles at my home.
“Eddie [Alvarez] is still unconscious, what do you mean? I only fought last week. Them belts are mine. Whatever they want to say, and they can say, ‘Oh we took the belt and now it’s this guy’s belt,’ you can play with those fake belts all you want. Jose was KO’ed, Eddie was KO’ed, you’re looking at the two-weight world champion and that’s it. And that's it. I’ll say to the UFC, and I love their company, you’re fooling nobody, you’re fooling nobody with that.
“But best of luck to them, I don't know, I still got them belts. Someone’s got to come take those belts from me, physically. Not online, not through a keyboard. The keyboard warriors trying to take them belts away from me, [but] you got to take them belts off me physically if you want to come get them.”
He also discussed the boxing licence he received in California and a possible bout with Floyd Mayweather, even though the
CEO of Mayweather Promotions discredited the idea of the pair ever getting in the ring.
"If I focus, with the work ethic that I have, solely on the sport of boxing then there’s no telling what I could do," McGregor said. "I would not go in there just to show up, I’d go in there to knock him [Mayweather] out and that's it.
"He can be hit, he’s been hit before. Age waits for no man so I know they know that. I know the size is on my side, I know the reach is on my side and I know the youth is on my side.
"There’s a lot to lose for them, so that’s why they're scrambling and saying 'McGregor's got the boxing licence, Floyd's in the Bahamas and he doesn't give a fuck.' They're scrambling right now.
"But that’s okay, I’ll leave them scrambling. I’ve got some other boxing opportunities and potential opponents in mind, some previous Floyd opponents. They can bring in anyone in the game. We’ll see what happens."
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