Conor McGregor: ‘If they offer Croke Park, damn right I’m gonna take it’

Conor McGregor joked that he might be ready to demand a Croke Park mega-show but the new UFC featherweight champion’s power is no laughing matter for the sport’s chiefs.

McGregor turned in the most astonishing night yet in his remarkable journey to the summit of the mixed martial arts world, a record-breaking 13-second demolition of previously undefeated Brazilian icon Jose Aldo Junior in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

It was the kind of extraordinary outcome that ensured the question on most of Sin City’s lips was — what next?