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Conor McGregor Slams Fans Who Called Donald Cerrone An 'Easy' Fight During Incredibly Personal Interview

Conor McGregor Slams Fans Who Called Donald Cerrone An 'Easy' Fight During Incredibly Personal Interview

McGregor has shown Cerrone an incredible amount of respect in his most personal interview yet.

Daniel Marland

Daniel Marland

Conor McGregor has finally responded to who called Donald Cerrone an 'easy fight' - claiming they 'project their own insecurities.'

McGregor returned to the octagon at UFC 246 back in January to face Cerrone and many were left underwhelmed by his choice of opponent.

'The Notorious' emerged as winner inside 40 seconds and speaking to Parimatch, he explained why the disrespect shown to 'Cowboy' doesn't sit well with him.

"You know you go online and you'll see some guy like 'Hey, you only f**king fought Cerrone' like imagine some guy saying that about a legend," McGregor begun.

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"The way the fans kind of try to downplay who you fought or something or say 'You haven't fought this guy yet' or you ain't done that.

"If you think of it like a mirror, that person who's writing this or saying this, he himself is projecting his own insecurities because that person wouldn't have fought anyone on planet Earth.

"So he's saying 'You ain't doing this, you ain't doing that' when really it's in his own thoughts that he ain't done this or ain't done that on any scale, so it's like a mirror.

"You know as long as your own self is right, everything else around you will become right. And that's it."

McGregor is set to return to UFC early next year and take on Dustin Poirier for a second time.

UFC president Dana White is confident the fight will happen in January but McGregor is making the promotion wait for his signature.

"I don't know (if McGregor signed a bout agreement yet)," White told ESPN. "Listen, I'm not worried about it. Conor McGregor has never said, 'Listen I want to fight,' gone out the way that he's gone out, talked about it.

"We got him his own date. Conor McGregor's going to show up and fight. I'm not worried about his bout agreement, but I don't know if it's been signed. I'm assuming it has, but it wasn't the other day when I texted, the fight wasn't done yet."

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Daniel is a journalist for SPORTbible and he has previous experience with Manchester United. He has spoken to some of the biggest names in sport including Rio Ferdinand, Peter Crouch, WWE COO Triple H and WWE legend The Undertaker. May or may not do a decent impression of Jamie Carragher.

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