McGregor: Aldo has a 12-year-old boy body
Conor McGregor: “There is no pop. They seem timid. And so looking at him he looked like a little skinny Brazilian from the favelas, that was it.”
After beating Dennis Siver at UFC Fight Night 59, Conor McGregor darted over the fence and confronted featherweight champion Jose Aldo. At the post-fight press conference, McGregor was asked what inspired him to vault the fence?
“I don’t know, I just seen his skinny Brazilian head, and I knew they flew him over there, and he’s sitting there front row,” said McGregor as transcribed by Chuck Mindenhall for MMA Fighting. “They thought I was going to see my girlfriend. They must have thought I was a romantic. But I was going to kill that little Brazilian.”
“They all seem small to me. It’s hard work making this weight, but I make it correct. I make it professionally. And when I’m in there against these people they’re small. There is no pop. They seem timid. And so looking at him he looked like a little skinny Brazilian from the favelas, that was it. Same as Diego [Brandao] looked, with a 12-year old boy body.
“So, I feel when we collide he will collapse.”
UFC president Dana White said Aldo didn’t enter the cage for a more traditional faceoff, as he was superstitious, and stepped into the Octagon only to fight.
“Tell you what, superstitions and rituals (like) ‘I need to wear these lucky jocks, I need to wear these lucky pants or I can’t fight’, that’s what rituals are, or superstitions are,” said McGregor. “I need certain things to happen for a contest to happen. Superstitions and rituals, for me, and it always has been, it’s another word for fear. So he should have come into the f—ing Octagon, what more does he want? Come in and say what he has to say. He keeps saying all these things, but face to face he don’t say nothing.”
The pair are tentatively scheduled to fight at UFC 187 on May 23. Who do you think takes it?