CONOR MCGREGOR IS determined to make the most of his trip this week.
On Tuesday night he entertained fight fans with a memorable appearance on BT Sport’s Beyond The Octagon.
From London, he flew to Rio to take in the Aldo Mendes fight from cage-side this evening.
Last night, after the Denis Siver fight was announced for January, he took part in a live Q and A. And he wasn’t shy in telling the hometown fans what he planned to do with Jose Aldo should he get past Mini Mendes and his opinion of his next opponent in Boston.
“Dennis is an easy contest,” the 26-year-old Dubliner said. “I like to think of Dennis as a keep-fresh, get-rich fight. So I’m going to go in and put Dennis away, we’re going to drag Jose Aldo back to Ireland, fill out an 80,000-seat football stadium and I’m going take the belt home to Ireland.
“[Siver] has the same body type as Diego Brandao — small, short, he won’t trouble me. He won’t land one bit.”
Aldo is expected to come through the bout with Mendes in Rio, where attention will turn to a showdown with McGregor.
“I am the No 1 contender,” he said. “The next time Jose steps into the Octagon after [to]night it will be to face me. In the meantime, I took a fight with Dennis Siver to eliminate another contender. It’s as simple as that.
“(Aldo) has not submitted or knocked out anybody in the past five years. How’s he going to touch me? I will be too quick for him. I will be too powerful. I will put him away.”
The Crumlin native also told watchers that Aldo’s skull would be caved in and he’d raise his head to the crowd.
