I Can Be Like Floyd Mayweather- Conor McGregor

Conor McGregor who just won the UFC's featherweight title with a 13-second knockout of Jose Aldo at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas has said that he wants to be like Floyd Mayweather.

McGregor said “I'm catching up [with Mayweather]. I'm only 27, they were 40. I'm only warming up. I said to Lorenzo [Fertitta] and I said to Dana [White], I'm breaking these big numbers, I'm breaking these half a billion dollar revenue numbers like the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. At 27 years of age I stand here as the unified world champion with back-to-back gate records at the MGM. This is trending as the highest pay-per-view I believe of all time for the UFC. At 27 years of age with every record in the book, with divisions above ready for me to go at, super fights left and right. I'm going straight up, I'm bringing big numbers, the sky is the limit anything can happen”.

The UFC 194 card set a new US record gate of $10.1million (£6.67m) and could also break the company's pay-per-view record of around 1.5m buys. The gate for Mayweather's long-awaited fight with Manny Pacquiao at the same venue last May did $72m (£47.5m) on the gate and 4.4m buys. McGregor now plans to spend time with his family before deciding on his next move.

He said “I'll give it some time, It's Christmas, I'm thinking right now about Christmas, you travel around so much, you're making weight or doing something. Christmas is taken from you sometimes. I've put in a hell of a lot of work this year, it's been a crazy, crazy year for me. I'm looking forward to going home and building a Christmas tree with my girlfriend and spending time with my family and eating good, good food”.