Recently reigniting his rivalry with former interim lightweight champion, Tony Ferguson this month, UFC star, Conor McGregor has opened as a sizeable favorite to defeat the faltering veteran in a potential grudge match between the two.
McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight and featherweight champion under the banner of the UFC, will face the job of ending a two-fight losing skid to another former interim titleholder, Dustin Poirier, sidelined since July 2021.
On that occasion, the Dubliner dropped a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO loss to Louisana native, after fracturing his left tibia and fibula in the opening frame.
However, for Ferguson, the one-time proprietor of a record-setting 12-fight winning run in the lightweight ranks, most recently dropped his worrying sixth consecutive loss back in July on the main card of UFC 291, the Oxnard native was submitted in the third round with an arm-triangle choke loss to Bobby Green.
And in the time since his loss, Ferguson has drawn the attention of Crumlin striker, McGregor, who claims he has not “forgotten” about their longstanding rivalry, vowing to put an end to the California veteran’s storied mixed martial arts career.
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