Conor McGregor’s future’s bright again

Conor McGregor stared out through his oversized glasses and even through the still blurred vision of the most brutally punishing night of his life, things looked a whole lot rosier. The unnecessary spectacles — Chief Brody meets Deirdre Barlow — are apparently a fashion statement. Who are we to argue with what’s trending?

But it was a statement of a whole other kind that defined Saturday night for the Dubliner.

He knew as much as he hauled his battered and bruised — but not broken — body aboard the stage for some reflections on a UFC 202 headline bout that had already been catalogued as an all-time combat classic.