Conor McGregor says he should be considered the greatest featherweight since Bruce Lee and argued his results at 145 pounds have been overlooked when all-time rankings are assembled at that weight class.
McGregor spoke to ESPN MMA’s Brett Okamoto during UFC 329 fight week.
This ranking system for the greatest featherweights, I’ve beaten these men and haven’t been in the list. How have I beaten these men easily, and handily, and yet been kept from the list? What is the skill? Who is the greatest? Who is the best? It is me, and the results show this. It’s not like the fights weren’t there, it was just elsewhere. It was divisional changes, which originally was not me! It was a fighter pulling out and things of that nature that led to it. I understand it, but I don’t agree with it. I am the greatest featherweight since Bruce Lee, and Saturday night I will show it.
McGregor is a former UFC featherweight champion and knocked out Jose Aldo in 13 seconds at UFC 194 to capture the title, setting a featherweight record for the fastest finish in a championship fight. He faces Max Holloway on Saturday in a welterweight rematch at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, nearly 13 years after their first meeting at 145 pounds. McGregor has not won a fight since January 2020 when he stopped Donald Cerrone.
