Conor McGregor hasn’t set foot in the Octagon in five years. He’s ending that on July 11, against Max Holloway, in the main event of UFC 329, part of International Fight Week.
He’s thirty-seven now. Five years since he last walked out under lights that big, which in fight years is closer to five lifetimes. And now he steps back into a cage against a man he already beat once. Different city, different weight class, and completely different versions of both men.
CONOR MCGREGOR vs MAX HOLLOWAY 2 !!!!
Your International Fight Week main event is confirmed!
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McGregor remembers that first fight the way other people remember their wedding day.
“I sonned Max when I fought him last, and I plan on doing the same again, in more devastating fashion.”
Some context for anyone who wasn’t watching MMA in 2013: that fight was a featherweight bout at TD Garden. This one is welterweight, 170 pounds, two men who’ve both since gone somewhere else entirely.
Holloway went on to become a champion in his own right and, according to McGregor, picked up a few habits from that night that he’s still using. McGregor went on to become the two-weight champion, the Mayweather crossover, the version of himself he now describes almost like a stranger.
“I had the game conquered. Two-weight world champion. I had the Floyd bout boxed off. I was only 27 years of age. I had the game wrapped up in a blink, and what more was I to do? I just… I got lost.”
That’s a man narrating his own disappearance, in public, ahead of a fight he didn’t have to take.
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That’s a much wider, colder, less loyal audience showing up because a headline got loud enough to reach them. And a wider audience that arrives once, for one specific reason, either finds somewhere built for that moment or bounces straight back out of it.
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McGregor said it himself, before a single punch landed: “To win alone is not just enough; it must be spectacular.”
Fair bar, for a man rebuilding a legacy in one night.
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