Owen Roddy believes Conor McGregor could make the cut back down to 145 to defend his belt, despite packing on some extra muscle.
With the rumours that McGregor will get his rematch against Nate Diaz at UFC 200 intensifying, it’s looking that top featherweight contender Frankie Edgar will have to wait for his title shot.
However, with the sport being recently legalised in the state of New York, Roddy would be a big fan of a McGregor v Edgar main event clash in the first UFC event in the state.
“That would be amazing, realistically that would be huge for the first New York show.”
“[McGregor and Edgar could fight] at featherweight or even at lightweight – Frankie spends a lot of time there, and he was the lightweight champion. But if Conor is on the card, it would be huge anywhere.”
We last saw McGregor compete at welterweight at UFC 196. His comments about having a “full belly” during fight week and being able to train on “steak” instead of salad left some people concerned that he would never defend his belt.
However, Roddy insists that he can still make weight to defend his belt if needs be, and that the Dubliner isn’t that much bigger than he was when he was fighting at 145 lb.
“He walks around at 172lb. He packed on a bit of muscle but, the way he does it when he’s in a camp for featherweight, he gets down to 163 or 160 fairly quick.”
“He might drop some muscle weight in the process but he’s always around 167lbs. He gets down to 163 early in the camp, limits his calories, then slowly but surely close enough to 154. Then he’ll do the cut.”
“He’s always done that. If he knows he’s fighting at featherweight he’ll get down to 145lbs, he always does. He’s not a lot bigger than he usually is.”
