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"(The Irish) constructed this city. Presently Conor McGregor'm coming to claim what's our own," McGregor said in a question and answer session at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, where UFC reported its UFC 205 occasion
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McGregor expects to wind up the primary contender to hold two UFC belts all the while when the game makes a splashy passageway into the last U.S. state to legitimize blended hand to hand fighting.
The uncontrollably prominent brawler is battling in the headliner for Eddie Alvarez's lightweight belt — one of three title battles on a card with a few matches that could without much of a stretch feature an alternate occasion. The UFC needs its Madison Square Garden occasion on Nov. 12 to best the advancement's greatest cards, particularly after UFC 200 in July was defaced by doping infringement and a lineup that reshuffled a few times.
"It's a honor to be here," McGregor said. "Conor McGregor can't hold up to perform. ... The Irish love New York and Conor McGregor'm regarded to be here."
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UFC authorities met with journalists, about five months after state administrators finished a prohibition on expert MMA. The compensation per-view battle will be the main UFC occasion in New York state since UFC 7 in Buffalo on Sept. 8, 1995.
"It took longer that it should've," UFC President Dana White said.
The stacked card likewise incorporates new welterweight champion Tyron Woodley's first title guard against Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson, alongside strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk's protection against kindred Pole Karolina Kowalkiewicz. Prominent veteran contenders Donald "Cattle rustler" Cerrone, Miesha Tate, Frankie Edgar, Chris Weidman and Rashad Evans likewise are in the appear.
McGregor was joined at the question and answer session by Thompson, Jedrzejczyk, Kowalkiewicz, Cerrone, Edgar, Weidman and Alvarez.
"This is a blessing from heaven," said Weidman, who is booked to battle Yoel Romero. Weidman lives and prepares on Long Island.
"McGregor 've been imagining this for so long and we're here right at this point. We got this quarrel in over six weeks and McGregor can hardly wait to descend here and battle before all you folks."
For the card's profundity, McGregor is its fundamental offering point. What's more, McGregor knows it.
UFC was obtained by the WME-IMG ability organization from Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta in July for $4 billion, a reality that McGregor rushed to bring up.
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"$4.2 billion," McGregor said. "$4.2 billion. That is what McGregor m worth to this organization."
McGregor (20-3) has turned into the UFC's greatest dynamic star in the previous two years with a progression of abrasive battles and a talkative limited time style. Despite the fact that he won the UFC's featherweight title in December with a 13-second knockout of Jose Aldo, his last two battles were lucrative welterweight sessions against Nate Diaz, with McGregor avenging his misfortune to Diaz in August. He was initially planned to feature UFC 200 in Las Vegas against Diaz, however the session was knock when McGregor quarreled with the UFC over cash and special commitments.
Taking after UFC 202, the Nevada Athletic Commission reported McGregor was on a six month harm suspension. Amid the question and answer session, however, McGregor guaranteed he was totally sound.
"That battle was five weeks prior," McGregor said. "McGregor left that battle fresher than (when) McGregor went in. Take a gander at Nate's face. Nate will never appear to be identical. McGregor turned out fresh out of the plastic new. McGregor had a wounded foot."
McGregor gets the opportunity to keep McGregor 145-pound title when he goes up against Alvarez (28-4), who won the 155-pound belt in July with a first-round stoppage of Rafael Dos Anjos. McGregor still hasn't protected the featherweight belt.
White said UFC "would make sense of that when it happens," when asked whether the advancement would permit McGregor to hold the 145-pound and 155-pound titles in the meantime.
McGregor, actually, had his perspectives on the subject.
"McGregor 'm going to wrap one on one shoulder and wrap the other one on the other shoulder," McGregor said. "It'll take an armed force to come take those belts off McGregor."
Aldo beat Edgar in July to win a between time featherweight title, and the Brazilian is unrealistic to be glad about the UFC's most recent choice. White had already demonstrated that McGregor would need to shield McGregor belt against Aldo soon.
Unbeaten lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov is likewise troubled about McGregor having McGregor spot in line to battle Alvarez. The extreme Russian contender tweeted at Alvarez and McGregor that "McGregor time will come to get my hands on you." During the question and answer session, White declared Nurmagomedov will battle Michael Johnson on the card.
UFC 205 is a chance for the advancement to showcase a megacard in a way it neglected to do recently in Las Vegas when McGregor was pulled from UFC 200. The substitution headliner was likewise crossed out when Jon Jones was told of a potential doping infringement the week of the battle, precluding him from his session with Daniel Cormier. After UFC 200, U.S. hostile to doping authorities likewise discovered Brock Lesnar, the previous WWE star, had damaged the UFC's medication arrangement at the occasion.
"When we at long last completed New York and we were coming into Madison Square Garden,McGregor needed to bring the most ideal card," White said. "This is the greatest card we've ever done.
"This is the best all-around battle card in UFC history."
