Earlier this year Conor McGregor teased going up to lightweight after UFC 194, and going after the winner of the Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Donald Cerrone title fight at UFC on Fox 17.
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In an interview with FOX Sports, Dos Anjos responded to McGregor:
“I don’t care about (Conor) McGregor. He’s a small guy, I would crush him. he wants to take my title I would love to crush him, but right now I don’t think he’s a big challenge. There are bigger names to beat.”
“I have honor on my belt. Not a fake belt,” dos Anjos said. “I have a real belt because I fought against the best. That’s why I think for me it’s most important. Right now my focus is on this Cerrone fight, but then I want Khabib (Nurmagomedov) because I want to clean that loss off my record.”
“More important is to fight against the best. You do it the hard way, you can’t do it the easy way. That’s what’s most important for me,” dos Anjos said. “I go back home, before I go to sleep, I put my head on my pillow, I know I fought against the best, that’s the most important thing to me.”
UFC 194 takes place on December 12th, and then UFC On FOX 17 takes place on December 19th.
