Conor McGregor KOs Paddy Doherty at Immortal FC 4
The two came to the center of the cage, Doherty threw a right hand and McGregor stepped back and throw a counter left hand that left Doherty unconscious less than ten seconds into the first round.
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Conor McGregor shocked the world when he knocked out Jose Aldo in thirteen seconds with a straight left as he side stepped Aldo’s attack. However, it wasn’t the first time McGregor had a quick knockout with the exact same scenario.
In his tenth professional fight, Conor McGregor was matched up with fellow Irishman Paddy Doherty. The two came to the center of the cage, Doherty threw a right hand and McGregor stepped back and throw a counter left hand that left Doherty unconscious less than ten seconds into the first round. Doherty spoke to Severe MMA about the fight:
The plan was that I would come out as southpaw and start hitting him with the left, but then I was going to switch and step into an orthodox position. He hit me with an overhand right, I think it was an overhand right anyway, and that was it.
I can’t really remember that much of it but my whole plan was to switch in the middle. I didn’t get the chance to do it on the night after taking the shot, but that’s just how these things happen sometimes, he said.
Doherty also recalled the interactions he had with McGregor around the contest, remembering the surging UFC featherweight as an ‘absolute gentleman’.
To be honest, Conor was an absolute gentleman, he was as nice as pie. I can remember before we fought I saw him. He caught my eye and I smiled at him and gave him a nod. He walked straight over to me, shook my hand and said ‘may the best man win’.
I see all the stuff that’s going on now, but he wasn’t like that back then, certainly not with me. Even the day after the fight he reached out to me and asked me how I was and told me it would be great if I came down to train with him. The guy was 100 per cent, a really nice fella, he recalled of McGregor.
