Featherweight champion Conor McGregor‘s next two fights are expected to take place in Las Vegas. He faces lightweight titleholder Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 196 on March 5 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and has committed to participate on the UFC 200 fight card in July at the new T-Moble Arena in Sin City.
After the July fight card, McGregor doesn’t want to fight in Las Vegas again.
“(Expletive) Vegas! I want the East Coast next. If they don’t give me Ireland, give me East Coast,” he recently told Severe MMA. “I’ll go back to Boston.”
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McGregor has fought twice at the TD Garden in Boston and has a strong Irish fanbase in the Massachusetts capital.
“The East Coast is not as far. It’s a five-hour flight,” he said. “Vegas this one (UFC196), Vegas next one probably because I committed to UFC 200. I did commit to that, then East Coast or Dublin.”
“One or two more West Coast, then East Coast, then Dublin. And that’s it, it’s Dublin all the (expletive) way,” McGregor said.
“The Notorious” has only fought once in Ireland under the UFC banner.
“There’s not a man alive that can come on this soil and beat me,” he said following his UFC Fight Night 46 knockout win over Diego Brandao in Dublin in July 2014.
