Conor McGregor; I'm still the featherweight champ

If you ask Conor McGregor, he is still is the UFC lightweight and featherweight champion of the world. As for that whole thing about him relinquishing the featherweight title? Complete rubbish. McGregor spoke to Ireland’s RTE after receiving their award for Sports Person of the Year and said under no uncertain terms that he was never contacted about relinquishing the title he won by defeating Jose Aldo in 13 seconds last year. “All I know is they’re trying to type onto keyboard and say, ‘We’re taking this belt, we’re taking that belt, we’re doing this, we’re doing that,’ ” said McGregor. “You ain’t doing nothing without contacting me first.” The murky situation began when the UFC decided to elevate Max Holloway vs. Anthony Pettis to the UFC 206 main event and have them duel for the interim featherweight title after Daniel Cormier had to pull out of his light heavyweight fight with Anthony Johnson due to injury. In turn, the UFC announced that McGregor “relinquished” the featherweight title and promoted the previous interim champion, Jose Aldo, to full champion. McGregor scoffed at the notion that he was no longer a two-weight world champion. He recently became the first fighter in the history of the UFC to hold world titles in two different weight divisions after scoring a second-round knockout against Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 to claim the lightweight title. “I’m still the two-weight world champion,” McGregor said. “Make no mistake about that. They can say what they want, they can try and get phony belts and hand them out to people I’ve already destroyed. I mean, the current champion is a guy I KO’d in 13 seconds. The current interim champion is a guy I destroyed as well. Officially, I don’t care what nobody says. I am the two-weight world champion and that is that.”