Conor McGregor maintains fighting talk

The heat of high summer makes for strange times in the desert. Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz worked out for the Las Vegas masses last night ahead of their UFC 202 rematch on the Strip this weekend - a fight that’s still struggling to reach the buzz of their first meeting in March.

In spite of a chaotic bust-up between the pair 24 hours earlier, which grabbed much-needed attention in the close August-Olympics air, ticket sales for morrow night’s get-together were on the sluggish side of slow. The gleaming new T-Mobile Arena in Sin City was reportedly showing over 80 per cent availability for McGregor’s fourth fight in Sin City in just over a year.

There was still no sign of any repercussions over Wednesday’s farcical press conference exchange between the pair when McGregor and Diaz’s respective camps hurled bottle and cans at each other in the David Copperfield Theatre.