Conor McGregor has won UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight, and taken part in big fights at welterweight. Were we going to see McGregor try and conquer another division in the future?
A recent series of tweets from “Notorious” appear to indicate as much, as he wrote Saturday that he is “100 percent” going to compete at 185 pounds in the future. It’s unclear what prompted McGregor to write the now-deleted tweets, but they were sent out during the UFC Vegas 66 middleweight main event between Jared Cannonier and Sean Strickland.
See McGregor’s comments here.
In the first, McGregor wrote, “I’m gonna give middleweight a got at some point 100%.”
“I’m a big fridge at middleweight,” he added. He said, “But hot as oven at the same time. You know your self, you can catch it on PPV. Don’t know tho. It be hard work. Those rounds against those middle/lhw, they were alternating fresh each round. I’ve put in psycho work doing this job over the years.”
McGregor also posted a since-deleted that he claimed featured him sparring a middleweight ahead of his 2020 fight against Donald Cerrone.
McGregor has proudly shown off a bulked-up physique over the past few months, a change presumably tied to his role in the upcoming remake of Road House. McGregor’s removal from USADA has caused a lot of controversy. Joe Rogan and Anthony Smith were among those who scrutinized McGregor. Rogan even went so far to claim that McGregor’s new look “looks like he would melt the USADA cup “.
Currently, McGregor is on the shelf as he looks to book his next fight following recovery from a broken leg that he suffered in his most recent fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. The 34-year-old Irishman rose through the UFC ranks as a featherweight, capturing that championship in 2015 and then winning the UFC lightweight title in 2016. He has also competed at welterweight, with his most recent win coming nearly three years ago in a 170-pound bout against Donald Cerrone at UFC 246.
Source: https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/12/18/23514871/conor-mcgregor-teases-future-move-to-middleweight-id-be-a-big-fridge?rand=96749
