If Conor McGregor does not play at UFC, MMA sports and heavy UFC brands will be very different from the present. After all, the Irish puncher has been a symbol and one of the pioneers of this sport.
In 2012, when The Notorious was a two -weight champion of the Cage Warriors, he was ready to show himself at UFC. However, Sean Shelby – a senior vice president of talent relations and cable people of the tournament – has another plan.
In an email shared by coach of McGregor (John Kavanagh), Shelby told Haraldur Nelson, Gunnar Nelson's father (teammate Conor McGregor) that he could not sign a contract with McGregor because at that time UFC had many fighters Featherweight.
“Thank you for the email. “Currently, the Featherweight segment is too much of the boxer because the lightweight fighters lowered the weight.
Therefore, I will not want to sign a contract with anyone else for a while, but hope, everything will be clear soon and boxers like Conor will have a chance. “
Two months later, UFC was lacking boxers to arrange the match with Marcus Brimage in Sweden. This leads to McGregor to have a moment of shine, calling. We all know what happened afterwards.
McGregor, in his debut, defeated Brimage after only 70 seconds. Since then, he has become one of the symbols of MMA sport.