Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos While newly crowned UFC interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor ’s name elicits a variety of responses from fellow fighters, they mostly agree on one thing: He handled his business at UFC 189. On July 11 in UFC 189’s pay-per-view headliner in Las Vegas, McGregor (18-2 MMA, 6-0 UFC) defeated Chad Mendes (17-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) by second-round TKO to claim the interim belt and set up a fight with his originally scheduled opponent: longtime titleholder Jose Aldo (25-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC), who was sidelined with a rib injury . McGregor, who’s now ranked No. 2 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA featherweight rankings (and No. 15 pound-for-pound), silenced a lot of critics with his performance against Mendes, a perennial contender who took the fight on a few weeks’ notice.
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