McGregor discusses eight possible next fights

UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor recently made around $100 million losing a boxing match to the greatest boxer of his generation, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. During a recent appearance at An Evening with Conor McGregor at Glasgow’s SEC Armadillo venue, Notorious spoke with Caroline Pearce and discussed what could be next. It includes a fight vs. the winner of the Interim title fight between Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee in the main event of UFC 216 on October 7.

I’m sitting on a loss in my mind, so I’m just seeing what options are there, said McGregor, as transcribed by Peter Carroll for MMA Fighting. An option – there’s an interim belt on the line right now, that’s an option.”

Of course the Nate Diaz trilogy fight is there. Maybe one of these boxing guys…maybe Malignaggi would come over and do an MMA bout…or Floyd, maybe I could entice Floyd back.

We could either do a rematch in boxing, or like he said originally, we’ll do an MMA fight next. They are the options that are on the table for me right now.

I’m happy (Ferguson and Lee) are fighting. This is what I wanted because they’re all bums at the end of the day make no mistake about that. I’m just happy they’re fighting. I just want to see them compete.”

Too many of them pull out right at the wire and we’re still not at this fight yet, so I’m just going to pray that this one goes ahead. Of course Nate is still there waiting, but he’ll be left waiting until we figure something out.

I’m just going to put a few options out there and see what bounces back. It’s got to excite me, let me see what these two fools do this weekend. We’ll see what the energy is like.

Again, [#1 contender Khabib Nurmagomedov] that’s another option. That’s definitely an option. As I said earlier about the other two that are fighting, I’m just happy to see them fighting.

There’s also that Gaethje guy, he’s fighting another guy that I fought for the title, Eddie Alvarez. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens there. He’s an undefeated fighter and Eddie could come back.

I just want to see them fight. They’re talking about me fighting? I’m the one going into other peoples’ domains and fighting. They’re sitting on Twitter typing away and complaining. I’m in there trying to do it.

Obviously, Khabib in Russia would be a great one. It would be a crazy one. We’ll see what happens. I’ll need to see him make weight though. There’s no way I’m going over there and he’s not making weight. I need assurance.

Lastly, McGregor addressed a potential fight vs. welterweight G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre, if GSP beats middleweight champion Michael Bisping at UFC 217 on November 4, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.

It’s another money fight, even though he’s been retired, said McGregor. I don’t know, I think he’s going to get his assed whooped by Bisping. To be honest I think it’s a mistake for him to step in at that weight after so long out.

So the list of possibles is Tony Ferguson, Kevin Lee, Nate Diaz, Paulie Malignaggi, Floyd Mayweather, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, and Georges St-Pierre, among others.