Without question, a featherweight title fight between champion Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor would be not only the greatest bout which can be produced in the division, but also among the largest at any weight class. An Aldo McGregor tilt could fill a stadium in Brazil or Ireland.
As for whether McGregor is really the most worthy competitor at 145 pounds right now? Well, that is another narrative.
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Cathal Pendred becomes the latest Irish combatant to the Jan. 18 Fox Sports 1 show at the TD Garden in Boston (UFC Fight Night 59), as he will confront Sean Spencer in a welterweight fight. The UFC made the news official late Wednesday.
Pendred (15-2-1) joins headliner Conor McGregor and Patrick Holohan in the function in the city he was born in. Although dwelling and fighting out of Dublin, Ireland, Pendred was born and lived in Boston before the age of four, and considered it a wish to fight in town.
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With eight years of professional experience under her belt, TUF 20 strawweight competitor Aisling Daly is effectively an elder statesmen when it comes to the army of Irish exports currently taking the mixed martial arts world by storm.
But in mid-July, while Daly’s SBG Ireland teammates exploded onto the global stage with a masterful 5-0 Irish run at UFC Dublin, Daly found herself on the outside looking in, stuck inside The Ultimate Fighter house and unable to experience the culmination of years of hard work alongside her countrymen, ultimately forced to watch the event on delay halfway across the world.
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SBG Ireland head coach John Kavanagh previews Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier and is joined by Artem Lobov to discuss his attempts to get signed by the UFC.
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