Conor McGregor aiming to break Floyd Mayweather's records

Daily Mail

14 Dec, 2015 07:46 AM2 mins to read

Conor McGregor speaks to the media after his win. Photo / Getty

No sooner had Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor broken one record than he had laid out his plans to eclipse those belonging to Floyd Mayweather.

McGregor won the UFC's featherweight title with a 13-second knockout of Jose Aldo at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The UFC 194 card set a new US record gate of $US10.1million ($NZ15m) 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 $US72m ($NZ107m) on the gate and 4.4m buys.

And McGregor said: 'I'm catching up [with Mayweather]. I'm only 27, they were 40. I'm only warming up.

'I said to (UFC bosses) 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.'

McGregor now plans to spend time with his family before deciding on his next move.

'I'll give it some time,' he said. '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.