It didn’t take Conor McGregor long to begin his trash talk of UFC champion Jose Aldo. He jumped the cage after his UFC fight Night 59 own in Boston to yell at the champ and he carried those feeling into a recent interview with ESPN’s MMA reporter Brett Okamoto.
“I don’t know,” McGregor said after the event. “I just saw his skinny Brazilian head, and I knew they were filming him over there. ‘What’s he doing there, sitting front row?’
“They thought I was going to see my girlfriend. They must’ve thought I was a romantic. But I was going to kill that little Brazilian. But Pat, Lorenzo (Fertitta’s) right hand, intervened. And thankfully, because I like money. And when fights happen outside the octagon, they take your money. And I want to keep my money.”
Conor was then asked what he thinks of Aldo now that the two have been face-to-face:
“I just see a skinny little Brazilian,” he said. “They all seem small to me. It’s hard work making this weight, but I make it correct. I make it professionally. And when I’m in there against these people, they’re small. There is no pop. They seem timid. I was just looking at him, and he looked like a little skinny Brazilian from the favelas. That was it. The same as the way Diego (Brandao) looked, like a little 12-year-old boy body.”
McGregor vs Aldo has been scheduled for UFC 187 in Las Vegas. I have a feeling that the trash talk will only grow funnier as we approach the event.
