Conor McGregor is, more often than not, the bigger man in the octagon.
The Notorious is used to availing of his rangy striking and height advantage over his opponents but he definitely played the “David” role when the Goliath known as Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson visited SBG this week.
The UFC interim featherweight champion posted a picture of himself alongside “The Mountain” from HBO’s Game of Thrones on Friday but we thought they were perhaps just posing, not believing that anybody would let them spar with one another.
Today I had a bare-knuckle fight off a 180kg monster called 'The Mountain'
I'd never fought a man that big before. pic.twitter.com/BM22JOeZK1— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) October 31, 2015
McGregor fights at 145 lbs and is known to walk around at about 170 lbs so he’s just a bit outsized by the 6 ft 9 in, 400 lbs Björnsson.
And McGregor proved that the pair actually did do a bit of flow sparring on Friday evening when this video emerged online.
The Dubliner continued to land his left straight to the body of the Icelandic weightlifter and actor while Björnsson plodded forward in search of the front headlock.
All in all, we saw it 10-9 to McGregor.
Please, Conor. Don’t be getting yourself injured. PLEASE!!
