McGregor,the man who wants to beat Mayweather

All you need to know about Conor McGregor, the man who wants to fight Floyd Mayweather who has never been beaten before!

• The UFC icon, Conor McGregor, will be making his first foray into professional boxing following a nine-year career in mixed martial arts.

• He is 28 years old, and his nickname is ‘The Notorious.’

• He was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland.

• He has fast become UFC’s most recognisable athlete since making his debut in the octagon in 2013.

• After two years of fighting across Ireland, UFC president Dana White travelled to the country and signed McGregor for his first match against Marcus Brimage in April 2013.

• Forbes magazine named McGregor as the 24th highest-paid athlete in the world in its highest-paid athletes list from 2017.

• He earned £27m in 2016 from fight deals, endorsements and sponsorship agreements.

• He fought twice over the past 12 months, including headlining two of the three best-selling UFC fights ever on pay-per-view.

• He is the reigning UFC lightweight champion and remains the only fighter in the competition’s history to hold two belts at two different weight divisions at one time.

• He holds the record for the fastest ever UFC knockout when he beat Jose Aldo in just 14 seconds and the Irishman puts his success down to his all-round unpredictability as a fighter.

• He confesses, “I spend all day looking at videos, or in the gym working on the things that I’ve seen.”

• McGregor trained at the Straight Blast Gym in his native Ireland during his time-off from his work as a plumber’s assistant at a construction site.

• He started out doing some kickboxing and boxing, then a little Capoeira, Tae Kwon Do and Karate.

• He is a martial artist.

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