McGregor: Everyone does as they’re f@$%ing told to, EXCEPT ME

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez took part recently in a media call ahead of their fight at UFC 205. It will be the first time champions have fought in the UFC since then welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre vs. then lightweight champion B.J. Penn at UFC 94 in 2009.

The good bigger man beat the good littler man in that one. Penn is however, along with Randy Couture, one of the two fighters in UFC history to hold belts in two divisions. This time, if McGregor wins, he will be the first fighter to hold two belts simultaneously.

The UFC has said McGregor will have to give up one or the other. It is widely believed that given how rough a cut McGregor had the last time he made 145, he would keep the lightweight belt. However, after previously agreeing to, McGregor now indicated he hopes to keep them both.

Vacate? I don’t know, said McGregor, as transcribed by Steven Marrocco for MMAjunkie. We’ll see about that. Why not defend them both?

Everyone does what they’re f***ing told – except me. … Nobody has no say in this but me. Everyone else does what they’re told, and rightfully f***ing so.

There have been persistent rumors that McGregor plans to take a year off after the fight, to spend time, the rumor goes, with his long time girlfriend Dee Devin, who, the rumor goes, is pregnant.

Don’t be listening to people like that, he snapped. Just sit tight. Nobody knows. In reality, nobody knows.

There’s a lot of avenues I can take. There are a lot of paths I can go down, but I must focus on this – two UFC world titles consecutively. And then we’ll see what path presents itself at the final hurdle.

It hasn’t been done before. It’s never been even close to a reality in the game, and to do it on a stage like this, this will be one of my shining moments.

Conor McGregor fights Eddie Alvarez in the main event of UFC 205 on November 12, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.