Conor McGregor says he still has the UFC featherweight title belt, and if you want him to give it up, you’ll have to do so in the Octagon.
UFC recently announced McGregor vacated the featherweight belt he won at UFC 205 last month after beating Eddie Alvarez. UFC rules prohibit fighters from holding two belts simultaneously, but McGregor, who also owns the lightweight belt, doesn’t appear to care. He even went as far to deny he relinquished the featherweight belt.
“I’m also in something going on with the UFC, they’re trying to strip me and I was like, ‘Well, I ain’t stripped. I still got that belt, that belt is still at home right now’,” McGregor recently said at an event in Northern Ireland.
“I’m still the two-way world champion, someone has to come take that off me. I see articles, I see stuff online, but I don’t see the belt not in my presence. The belt is right there, there’s two world titles at my home.
“Eddie (Alvarez) is still unconscious, what do you mean? What do you mean? I only fought last week. Them belts are mine. Whatever they want to say, and they can say, ‘Oh we took the belt and now it’s this guy’s belt,’ you can play with those fake belts all you want. Jose was KO’ed, Eddie was KO’ed, you’re looking at the two-weight world champion and that’s it. And that’s it. I’ll say to the UFC, and I love their company, you’re fooling nobody, you’re fooling nobody with that.
McGregor’s next fight is not yet scheduled and it’s not known which weight class he’ll fight in when he does return to the Octagon.
What we do know is he’s going to be as confident as ever regardless of the opponent and weight class. McGregor isn’t exactly the type to back down from a challenge. Maybe he’ll conquer a different weigh division next.
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