World Tour 189 stops in Ireland

Dana White came out to a crowd of 3000 Irish fans while wearing an Irish shirt. The event started in traditional fashion with a closer look at the two men in the main event at UFC 189, then the home town hero came out. Connor McGregor came out to a deafening roar of the crowd while the UFC Featherweight Champion was met with a sea of boos. But that wasn't the loudest moment of the press conference. McGregor threw respect of the champ out the window (again) and grabbed the championship belt away from José Aldo and that sent the crowd into a complete frenzy. It took more than Dana White to separate the two featherweights and Aldo made sure he got his belt out of his challengers hands before he sat back down.

There was a young man that asked Connor McGregor to respect the champion because it was going to rile him up and turn Aldo into an animal, but McGregor brushed off the advise and continued to send verbal assaults on the champ even making a prediction on the fight saying "one round it will be done, mark my words. I feel a left down the pike will do it"

The Irish fans respected the champion even less by booing him every time he spoke. The champion seemed unfazed by the crowd and was quoted as saying "I've fought in front of fifty thousand, you only have two thousand here. This is nothing to me." But perhaps the best quote of the night was by the home town contender when pressed by a Brazilian fan that told McGregor "there's a reason the belt is on the other side of the table" to which McGregor responded "there's only one reason that belt is on that side of the table, because he hasn't faced me yet"

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