The bookmakers may favour a win for ‘The Notorious’ but Donald Cerrone reckons the UFC lightweight title is going nowhere next month.
Conor McGregor is 4/6 to deny Eddie Alvarez a successful defence of his 155lbs belt and, in the process, become the first fighter in UFC history to hold a belt in two different weight classes simultaneously.
McGregor, the reigning featherweight champion, clashes with Alvarez in the main event of UFC 205 and in spite of his favouritism according to the odds, plenty of fighters are predicting an Alvarez victory.
One such competitor is Donald Cerrone, who has been nothing if not consistent in his belief that McGregor may be over-hyped.
‘Cowboy’ foresees Alvarez making easy work of the Irishman on November 12 and suggested that McGregor will not be able to offer any resistance to the lightweight champ’s shots.
“That’s not a good fight,” Cerrone said on UFC Unfiltered podcast. “Because Conor sucks. Eddie is smart. He won’t get caught up in all of the dramatics of it. He’ll just go in there and take him down, fucking wrestle him and fucking submit him… easy work.
“Conor is good at getting you emotionally involved. So, I think you just go out there, take him down, and fucking end him quick. Check please.”
Cerrone will fight on the same landmark card, which takes place at Madison Square Garden, and he actually holds a win against Alvarez in the latter’s Octagon debut.
‘Cowboy’ doesn’t reckon that the mental warfare at which McGregor is so masterful will work on Alvarez, nor does he believe that the mind games would work on him either although he concedes that the trash-talking used to get to him and resulted in his UFC 141 defeat to Nate Diaz.
“I don’t let that shit bother me anymore. Four years ago, yeah it did,” he said. “I wanted to hurt him bad. Just all the shit talking. I respect the shit out of the Diaz brothers.”
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