Conor McGregor: ‘It’s been a great journey from Crumlin’

When asked to cast his mind back to the last time he took part in a competitive boxing match, all Conor McGregor can do is glance skywards and let out a long exhale of breath. It has been so long for him that he can’t even remember.

“It would have been out the back of the National Stadium or maybe in Crumlin boxing club,” he says eventually.

After weeks and months of bluster and bravado, the martial artist from Dublin is suddenly excited to be talking about real fighting again.