There would have been some worries when Chael Sonnen claimed this week that Conor McGregor faced a cut of almost two stone in just eight days ahead of UFC 189.
The former UFC middleweight and light heavyweight challenger said that McGregor had told him that he weighed 172 lbs just last week but The Notorious refutes those claims.
“That is definitely not true,” McGregor said on The Jim Rome Show today.
“He [Sonnen] must have misheard me but my weight was never that high. I’m a professional inside the octagon and outside the octagon.
“I’ve flown over a 20 person strong team out here to Las Vegas to prepare for this fight. So I’ve taken every precaution, to prepare for this.
“This is the fight of my life and I take this game very seriously so my weight is on point, everything is on track to make 145lbs and that’s it.”
McGregor also corrected rumours that he had offered Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta a $3 million bet that he would finish Chad Mendes inside two rounds, a story that White told on the same show yesterday.
“It was closer to $3.5 million,” McGregor announced. “There was a stipulation on the pay-per-view buys.”
“It would have added $3.5 million to my purse and I feel that I must see Dana and I must see Lorenzo and we must shake on it. Because a bet of that magnitude you must shake hands on it.”
