Conor McGregor, the featherweight titleholder is stepping up to challenge for Eddie Alvarez's lightweight title in the first confrontation between two sitting champions of separate weight divisions since UFC 94, in 2009.
McGregor arrives off the back of two fights with Nate Diaz in the heavier welterweight category, and has responded fiercely to criticism that he has not yet defended his featherweight title since winning it inside 13 seconds against Jose Aldo last December.
Further down the bill, Stephen Thompson will try to overthrow Tyron Woodley as king of the welterweight division, after Woodley claimed the crown from Robbie Lawlor at UFC 201.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Karolina Kowalkiewicz contest the women's strawweight title, with the latter the challenger but both Polish fighters unbeaten in their professional careers thus far. Kowalkiewicz did, however, lose to Jedrzejczyk in an amateur bout in 2012.
Wherever I choose to go, I’m prepared to go there
I feel great at this weight (lightweight). Obviously, it’s tougher to get to featherweight, but I think it’s crazy the way they say I can’t get to featherweight no more or all these crazy things. Like I haven’t gone in there and taken out the whole division as early as last year.
Then they’re talking about stripping [my title] and vacating and all this stuff, it’s like hold on a minute — what did I just go and do there? Am I not champion?
I can defend them both [lightweight and featherweight titles]. Vacate? We’ll see about that. I fight every week.
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Conor McGregor, the featherweight titleholder is stepping up to challenge for Eddie Alvarez's lightweight title in the first confrontation between two sitting champions of separate weight divisions since UFC 94, in 2009.
McGregor arrives off the back of two fights with Nate Diaz in the heavier welterweight category, and has responded fiercely to criticism that he has not yet defended his featherweight title since winning it inside 13 seconds against Jose Aldo last December.
Further down the bill, Stephen Thompson will try to overthrow Tyron Woodley as king of the welterweight division, after Woodley claimed the crown from Robbie Lawlor at UFC 201.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Karolina Kowalkiewicz contest the women's strawweight title, with the latter the challenger but both Polish fighters unbeaten in their professional careers thus far. Kowalkiewicz did, however, lose to Jedrzejczyk in an amateur bout in 2012.
Wherever I choose to go, I’m prepared to go there
I feel great at this weight (lightweight). Obviously, it’s tougher to get to featherweight, but I think it’s crazy the way they say I can’t get to featherweight no more or all these crazy things. Like I haven’t gone in there and taken out the whole division as early as last year.
Then they’re talking about stripping [my title] and vacating and all this stuff, it’s like hold on a minute — what did I just go and do there? Am I not champion?
I can defend them both [lightweight and featherweight titles]. Vacate? We’ll see about that. I fight every week.
