Conor McGregor wants to win UFC lightweight and featherweight belts
Thursday 3 December 2015 12:11, UK
Conor McGregor is already planning to win a second UFC championship ahead of his featherweight unification fight against Jose Aldo.
The Irishman won the interim 145-pound title in the summer when long-time champion Aldo withdrew from their scheduled fight, but they will finally meet on December 12 at UFC 194 to decide the rightful title-holder.
But McGregor has vowed to immediately step up a division and win the 155-pound title from either Rafael dos Anjos or Donald Cerrone, who fight seven days after UFC 194.
I feel like Ado won't get off his stool for the second round so I'm looking to emulate what I achieved in my previous promotion and hold two belts.
He said: "I will KO Jose Aldo and I will face the winner of the lightweight title fight, which takes place a week later. So within two fights I will be a two-weight world champion.
"I came here looking to win all the belts, it doesn't matter who holds them. I hold them!
"I just don't see [Aldo] answering the bell to the second round. I see him KO'd inside one, and when you KO a man inside one there is no need for a rematch. I feel like he won't get off his stool for the second round so I'm looking to emulate what I achieved in my previous promotion and hold two belts.
"But I'd like to sit back and watch the lightweight title fight the following week. Hopefully that's a nice war that gets the fans excited for me and [then] go and collect that belt."
Aldo pulled out of a July title defence against McGregor citing an injured rib, forcing the Irishman into a short-notice scrap against Chad Mendes instead.
McGregor insists that he battled through the pain barrier of a severely injured knee and criticised Aldo's decision not to do the same.
"Nothing can break me, nothing can stop this train from taking over the game," he said. "I had a busted up leg and they knew it, they planned to target it. Their whole camp knew it, celebrated it. He bruised his rib and pulled out. I told him, 'If you show up I won't hit your body, I'll hit you clean in the face'.
"100 per cent of the roster would have walked [with my injury]. That was supposedly my Kryptonite, the American wrestler. They gave me him on three weeks' notice and I still took it."
Referencing Ronda Rousey's recent shock defeat at the hands of Holly Holm, McGregor insisted that he will not become the next victim of a gruelling schedule outside of the cage.
He continued: "Recently I watched Rocky III. He has seven cars, a robot bringing him coffee and he's doing all these ads and talk shows. He gets lazy and sloppy, meanwhile Clubber Lang is in a dark alleyway, sprinting and throwing shots.
"I smiled - I am like Rocky because I have a big house, I have cars, I have a robot bringing me coffee in the morning. I'm training like Clubber but living like Rocky.
"I am carrying this whole, damn game and I love it because it feels light. I feel like doing single-leg squats because it ain't nothing."
