“It feels beautiful. I dreamt this so much, so clearly, so precisely, and so frequently that is has manifested itself into reality.”
Conor McGregor's dreams came true and 13 seconds was all it took. It happened so fast that I didn’t even know what I had just seen. What the hell just happened? How did Aldo get on the ground? Did McGregor even punch him? Rewind, play, repeat. I did this approximately five times until I finally saw it in slow motion from several angles. McGregor knocked him the f*ck out-- hit him so damn fast that I didn't even see it! A southpaw sucker punch square in the jaw had Aldo's teeth practically flying out of his face, his eyes dead-pan. The champ was down and out cold only 13 seconds into the first round.
Despite the constant trash talk spit by Dublin’s Conor McGregor, nobody expected to see Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight champion, Jose Aldo’s ten-year winning streak come to an end. The awaited fight, UFC 194, took place on Saturday, December 12, 2015 inside MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The lead up to this fight was huge. Aldo kept it fairly classy while McGregor came at him blow after blow with slaps in the face and insulting remarks, whether he was firing shots at Aldo's home country, Brazil, or at his game, or even just at his face, figuratively and literally. Earlier in the year, McGregor was seen throwing darts in the face and eyes of a photo of Aldo. He reverted back to immature, grade school ways, calling his opponent all of the bad names in the book, sometimes even in Portuguese. Who knew that McGregor's cockiness would end up warranted?
In the backstage of a press conference leading up to the fight, the Irish fighter taunted Aldo through a glass door while holding the champion's belt, claiming it would become his own. We took Aldo's calmness as a modest confidence, but maybe McGregor was right from the start.
“If someone takes something of yours and waves it in your face and says “come and get it” and you look at them and do nothing, that’s the biggest sign of fear.”
But 13 seconds, damn. Did Aldo even have time to be fearful?
Conor McGregor may have taken the title this time, but will a ten-year champ like Jose Aldo really accept a loss like this? I think I smell a rematch.
