The bout will take place at 170 pounds, a weight at which McGregor has fought twice before, both against Nate Diaz in 2016. He lost the first by submission but won by majority decision in the rematch. Last week, McGregor seemed to allude to an upcoming bout with a tweet mentioning the three weight classes at which he has fought (he won titles at both 145 pounds and 155 pounds). And in August, TMZ published a video that showed McGregor punching a man in the face at a Dublin bar (he was fined $1,120). The McGregor-Nurmagomedov bout at UFC 229 drew 2.4 million pay-per-view buys, the most ever for an MMA event.

Source: Washington Post November 29, 2019 16:41 UTC