Conor McGregor says in the strongest possible terms he’s still featherweight champion

Connor’s head coach at SBG Ireland, John Kavanagh, did speak out and refuted the UFC’s claim that the belt had been relinquished by McGregor and instead insinuated that it had actually been stripped in order to justify creating an interim title for the UFC 206 main event.

“I also have something going on with the UFC, they’re trying to strip me and I was like, “Well, I ain’t stripped”. So what I did was I opened up my eyes a little bit.

“You’re looking at the two weight world champion and that’s it!” “They better bring an army to try and take one of my belts”, McGregor stated. Somebody’s got to come take them belts from me physically.

Both men have repeatedly stated that they are open to fighting the other and have even thrown several verbal jabs at each other. To be sure, Van Heerden is a decent fighter, but McGregor made him look like a world champion with the way he was totally out-boxed by him. If you remember, at the UFC 205 post-fight press conference, he demanded that the UFC give him part ownership.

After the win over Alvarez, McGregor has offered to battle Mayweather in the boxing rules for numerous times while demanding at least $100 million payouts from the former pound-for-pound boxing champion. We were in the background of negotiations and we’ll see what happens. I see articles, I see stuff online. So I don’t need Floyd.

We got Frampton out at Cafe Pinot in L.A. on Thursday – where the undefeated 23-0 bruiser gave some straight talk about Conor’s foray into boxing. “However, if he could listen to reason and come in and fight at an entry level then there could be something to work with”.

Frampton says he thinks Conor’s move to get a boxing license is nearly like “sticking the fingers up to UFC. saying ‘I can do what I want'”. “He doesn’t know all that has gone on, I guess”. I know the size is on my side. But that’s okay, I’ll leave them scrambling.

According to an official close to the situation who was unauthorized to discuss the situation publicly, McGregor past year agreed to surrender the featherweight belt if he had defeated then-lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos. If McGregor got hurt by Mayweather or some other top fighter, it would be a black-eye for the sport for having allowed the mismatch to take place in the first place.

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