Mcgregor rematch call after leg op success
UFC star Conor Mcgregor said he is “feeling tremendous” following leg surgery and is vowing he will fight again.
The Notorious lost again to Dustin Poirier on Saturday night after he stumbled backwards and broke his left leg at the end of the first round at the T-mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Mcgregor, 32, said: “Just out of the surgery room, everything went to plan. I’m feeling tremendous. Six weeks on a crutch and then we begin to build back.
“I want to thank all the fans around the world for your messages of support, I hope you all enjoyed the show. I want to thank all the fans in the arena – 21,800 fans in attendance, the place was absolutely electric.
“It was a hell of a first-round, it would have been nice to get into that second round and then to see what’s what.
“Dustin, you can celebrate that illegitimate win all you want but you’ve done nothing.
“That second round would have shown all.
“Onwards and upwards we go, team. We dust ourselves off, we build ourselves back.”
UFC president Dana White said there would be fights on the table when the father of three is fit again.
Meanwhile, Mcgregor coach John Kavanagh admitted the champ suffered ankle injury in training camp.
In a video chat with UFC broadcaster Laura Sanko, he revealed: “Little bit of that ankle injury had been aggravated during the camp.
“We’d gotten a scan on it. Did that have a small part to play in weakening it? I don’t know . ... We were [with] Dr Neal Elattrache, a famous orthopaedic surgeon.
“They say, you think when you look at an MRI or a CAT scan, it’s perfect. But they say it’s like listening to an engine.
“A very skilled mechanic can maybe pick up something off it, but it’s not till you open it up that you see it. There might’ve been something in there.
“It would seem unusual that a young, healthy, fit man could wrap his foot around an elbow without there have been something there before. But you can sort of play those guessing games all day long.”
Kavanagh said he was “bitterly, bitterly disappointed” at the result, as Mcgregor was doing exactly what he needed to take control when disaster struck.
He added: “I thought energy looked good, technique looked good. I thought we were well on track.”