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Conor McGregor may be fighting in front of 50,000 people in Melbourne next year

Next November’s huge event is set to be announced in the coming weeks.

CONOR MCGREGOR IS being considered by UFC president Dana White to headline UFC 193 at the 50,000 seater Etihad Stadium in Melbourne next year.

The event, which will take place on 15 November, is set to break all records currently held by the famed 2006 Anthony Mundine-Danny Green bout, and will be announced in the coming weeks according to the Australian Daily Telegraph.

The announcement comes about after the Victorian Labour government won power over the weekend, after vowing to scrap the ban on The Octagon cage used in UFC.

Under the previous Liberal government, mixed martial arts was allowed in Victoria but the eight-sided “cage” was banned.

McGregor’s next fight is against Denis Siver in the TD Garden in Boston next month, a bout for which he has opened as a huge 1/10 favourite.

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    Mute David C
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    Dec 1st 2014, 1:34 PM

    Good man anto ya toothless eegit lol

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    Mute Dublin Dweller
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    Dec 1st 2014, 2:13 PM

    McGregor needs to see off Siver first, which he should do. But nothing is ever guaranteed in the fight game.

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    Dec 1st 2014, 1:31 PM

    Who cares? Bandwagon sport. Soon fade as soon as mcgregor is sparked ouuuuu

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    Mute Kieran Canavan
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    Dec 1st 2014, 2:09 PM

    Shut up

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    Mute peter
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    Dec 1st 2014, 4:37 PM

    Going a long time for it to be a bandwagon sport

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    Mute Anto Byrne
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    Dec 1st 2014, 3:32 PM

    Yes he is David. What’s the crack with his American put on accent? Is he not from predominantly working class Crumlin?

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    Mute David O Callaghan
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    Dec 1st 2014, 3:19 PM

    An absolute knobber of a human being.

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    Mute Ruairi
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    Dec 1st 2014, 10:06 PM

    Why don’t you take yourself down to that gym he train at and run your fascinating opinion by him?

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    Mute Karl Daly
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    Dec 2nd 2014, 3:57 AM

    I pray this will happen it’ll save us the trip to Vegas or wherever. We’ll show the Aussies and the world how to support one of our own.

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    Dec 2nd 2014, 1:07 AM

    Australia as good as Ireland for support for him!

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    Dec 1st 2014, 8:40 PM

    Conor McGregor would be the worst sevens player ever. Great in defense but I can’t see him running away from people in offence

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