Optimistic about knee injury, UFC's Conor McGregor insults top featherweights

While fans have quickly taken to UFC prospect Conor McGregor, his fellow featherweights probably won’t be so eager.

Especially after the Irish fighter’s latest tweets.

McGregor (14-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC), who defeated fellow prospect Max Holloway (7-3 MMA, 3-3 UFC) this past weekend at UFC Fight Night 26 in Boston, suffered a knee injury in the fight but fought on and scored a unanimous-decision victory. Now, he said he’s undergoing an MRI scan tomorrow and is optimistic he’ll be out no longer than three or four weeks.

After sharing those plans on Twitter, he then discussed potential future opponents – and not exactly in a flattering way.

As he tweeted: “Aldo-Safe. Mendes-135er. Lamas-Nobody cares. Cub-OLD. TKZ-Open. Edgar-135er. Siver-OLD. Poirier-PeaHead. Guida-Boring. Lentz-Boring. Koch-?.”

To summarize, Chad Mendes is too small for featherweight, nobody cares about Ricardo Lamas, Cub Swanson is old, Chan Sung Jung is actually an option, Frankie Edgar should be at bantamweight, Dennis Siver also is old, Dustin Poirier is a “PeaHead,” Clay Guida and Nik Lentz are boring, and Erik Koch is apparently a big ol’ question mark.

Keep in mind these aren’t has-beens or Regular Joes in the division; in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA featherweight rankings, those fighters are respectively ranked No. 3, No. 4, No. 7, No. 6, No. 14, No. 15, an honorable mention, No. 13 and No. 12.

McGregor’s camp and Diego Brandao (18-8 MMA, 4-1 UFC), a winner of “The Ultimate Fighter 14? who’s an honorable mention in the rankings, also have expressed interest in a future matchup against each other.

While that fight makes sense from a competitive/rankings perspective, expect some other 145-pounders to now be chomping at the bit for a shot at McGregor.

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