Conor McGregor is ready to break records

The life of a fighter can change in a drastic manner once they achieve some success but for Conor McGregor, becoming UFC Featherweight champion was something he always expected. His career takes on another new challenge as he coaches on the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter that starts next Wednesday on Fox Sports 1. The Irish fighter with a charismatic persona is one of a kind and it becomes apparent that this is who he is and not an act.

UFC Interim Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor c/o Gabriela Ochoa

“I’ve always had visions of better and in time of struggle. Like driving around in a banger of a car that I had to push start, I’d still be driving around in a soft top Bentley in beautiful California in my head. Low and behold now I am driving a beautiful soft top Bentley around California. I always visualized good things, I always visualized victory, success, abundance. I visualized it all and its happening,” said McGregor.

The season of the Ultimate Fighter will place Team McGregor versus Team Faber in a battle of lightweights from Europe and the United States. Coaching against Urijah Faber will be interesting since the two coaches won’t be fighting at the end of the season. McGregor is heading into a December showdown against Jose Aldo to unify the featherweight title.

The history between McGregor and Team Alpha Male goes back before McGregor defeated Chad Mendes in July. With a busy schedule and heavy promotion leading into UFC 189, McGregor is happy to have a break and get his body back to its peak form, something that can only happen with rest.

“A few days in Los Angeles and I feel like a female gymnast. I literally feel that free in my body. Things are really going good for me and I feel reinvigorated. I’m ready to go hit that number again and get to it,” said McGregor.

UFC Interim Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor c/o Gabriela Ochoa

With the season of The Ultimate Fighter behind him now, his focus is once again on Jose Aldo who he will meet at UFC 194 in December. Talk that Aldo hasn’t watched the fight versus McGregor makes the Irishman laugh.

“He watched the fight with a rosary and prayed to Jesus Christ that Mendes would get that win. But unfortunately Mendes was ko’d in two rounds,” said McGregor.

With Aldo having been removed from the card due to an injury, this time around McGregor is taking a different approach to his opponent.

“I cannot scare him anymore, he’s scared to death. I want to cuddle him and tell him that it’s going to be okay and shake his hand. Say listen, show up, man up and let’s fight. Stop being a p—y, it will be over soon and you’ll be back to your normal life with your wife and kids. The life you want,” said McGregor.

With every fight his star is growing and McGregor feels that he is on a different level and is already doing things that fighters before him didn’t do such as Georges St Pierre and Anderson Silva. No one is safe from his talk, not even Floyd Mayweather who McGregor says he is ahead of in terms of numbers generated at their ages.

“This life is not for everyone. This is for the insanely driven individual. Bring Georges and Anderson back. You think they were 26 years of age with these numbers? No they weren’t. Not even Floyd was twenty-six with these records and these numbers,” said McGregor.

UFC Interim Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor c/o Gabriela Ochoa

As he sees it now a victory over Aldo would show he is done with the featherweight division and ready to conquer the lightweights. A fight between lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos and Donald Cerrone is scheduled for December but McGregor believes both those fighters would jump at the opportunity to face him in a bigger event.

“In my mind I’m thinking unify and destroy. I’m going to unify the title and then I’m going after the lightweight belt. I already have the numbers. It wouldn’t be that I was fighting a lightweight to get the numbers. Rafa has nothing, Donald has nothing. Rafa is looking to make six figures this fight and rightfully so but he shouldn’t be even making six figures because he doesn’t bring in six figures. Donald will probably scrape up six figures because he shows up and fights every couple of weeks. When I go to lightweight it will be for gold,” said McGregor.