Conor McGregor receives another ridiculous call out as Aldo fires shots
CONOR MCGREGOR - Express Sport brings you the latest news on the UFC’s lightweight champion.
Conor McGregor, UFC lightweight champion
Oscar De La Hoya has doubled down on his recent call out of Conor McGregor.
Earlier this month, the former six-weight world champion shocked the combat sports world by challenging the UFC’s poster boy to meet him inside the squared circle.
De La Hoya, 44, was quizzed about his comments by TMZ after attending a Guns N’ Roses concert and was quick to reiterate his belief that he’s in fighting shape.
“Do you not see me that I’m in shape?” ‘The Golden Boy’ told TMZ when the subject of a potential fight between himself and McGregor came up. “So take me back to the very last city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.”
Do you not see me that I’m in shape?
Meanwhile, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has called on the promotion to make McGregor defend the lightweight title or strip him of it.
"Thank God my division is moving. It would be bad if it was stuck, but my division is moving,” Aldo said at a recent media day in Brazil. “It’s hard, right? Every athlete dreams of becoming champion, fighting for the title, and the guy is holding up the division. But it’s up to the UFC to make the decisions.
“The UFC needs to do what has to be done: you take the belt away or make him defend it. I think everyone is waiting for that.”
He added: “He has to defend it, has to put his belt on the line in order to become champion. He only won the title. For me, Ferguson has great possibilities of becoming champion in the future.
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And finally, Paulie Malignaggi has denied Steve Bunce's claim that he believes he'll box the UFC lightweight champion in the spring.
"Unless Steve has info that I am not privy to, I am not fighting in April," the former two-weight world champion told Starsport.
Paulie Malignaggi says he isn't fighting Conor McGregor in April
"Nor have I heard I'm fighting him at all but April is a long ways away. So who knows."