Today is finally the day.
The early hours of Saturday morning simply cannot come quick enough.
While this is all happening we all just need to take a step back and reflect what is actually happening, a lad in Crumlin that was collecting social welfare back around the time Ireland were playing in Euro 2012 is now part of the most lucrative fight of all time.
McGregor was barely known by the Irish mainstream audience three years ago and his rise has been nothing short of sensational.
Now we’re just hours away from that same lad from Crumlin competing in a fight that will smash just about every record out there.
The 29-year-old has become so popular for his brash outlandish trash talk, his exciting fighting style and his far too accurate predictions.
‘Mystic Mac’ is how the lightweight UFC champion affectionately calls himself has scarily predicted how a number of his fights will end including his 13-second defeat of Jose Aldo.
Rewind to two years ago and even Conor McGregor couldn’t have fathomed that he was going to be facing Floyd Mayweather at the T-Mobile Arena, making his pro-boxing debut.
And it was just over two years ago that his opponent fought Manny Pacquaio in the current most lucrative fight of all time.
Mayweather won that fight by unanimous decision with two scorecards having it at 116-112 with the third having it 118-110.
It was a victory by convincing fashion and at the time McGregor gave his view on the fight at the time.
That felt more like a business transaction than a fight. Respect to Floyd though. Boxing is not the style of fighting to stop him.
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) May 3, 2015
It is funny how the whole tweet holds true over two years later, the upcoming fight is literally all based around money. A business transaction if you will.
Anyone that rates Conor McGregor’s chances says that he has to have an unconventional approach to try and beat him, offer him something that he has never seen before and apparently the Crumlin man believes that to or at least did believe that two years ago.
The fighters are expected to kick things off at the earliest of 4:15 am Irish time at the earliest but could well be closed to five o’clock before the action starts.
