In order to fight, you have to irrationally cocky. No one is going to step into a cage to fight a guy with everything shy of biting and eye gouging if you think you’re going to lose. And the better you are, the more confident you get.

The quality reached a peak in UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.

First, he predicted a first round KO of arguably the best pound for pound fighter in the sport, division champion Jose Aldo.

“I don’t think he’ll see the second round,” said McGregor. “I don’t think he’ll make it to the second… damaging, damaging blows in the first round. If he can withstand that, he could quit on the stool. Something’s telling me he might quit on the stool – not answer the bell for the second. Or maybe not quit on the stool, but be forced out of the contest because he can’t continue.”

Then he told TMZ he could take Jesus.

“Me … versus … Jesus … in … the … Octagon?” he repeated, smiling. “How would me vs Jesus… I tell you what, there’s not a man alive that can beat me. But Jesus ain’t alive is he, so I don’t f—ing know. Maybe he can come back from the dead. I don’t know. I’d still whoop his ass.”

If McGregor loses on the 12th, Proverbs 16 (King James Version) may be pointed to.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; He who watches his way preserves his life. Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

And if Conor McGregor wins, there will be an Irish roar the likes of which has not been heard since the Battle of Tata, and that was in 980 AD.

Then McGregor got to the really important question – should Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez get back together?

And stay tuned. Tomorrow Conor McGregor will predict he could take Chuck Norris.