GameTech: Conor McGregor steps into games arena in UFC 2

JUST like Conor McGregor, a good newspaper column should always open with a nice hook. 

Unlike Conor McGregor, this hook won’t put you to sleep in 13 seconds. Unless, of course, you think video games are that boring.

When McGregor knocked out José Aldo with a beautiful counter-left at the weekend, he didn’t just win the UFC’s featherweight title — he also won the so-called ‘fight for the cover’ to become the face of the EA Sports UFC 2 video game (surely the greatest of all prizes).