"Sometimes I lay in bed still thinking about it," Mendes said about his loss to McGregor.
UFC 189 marked the third time Chad Mendes had stepped into the Octagon to challenge for the featherweight title, and the third time he walked away empty handed. 'Money' had only lost to divisional kingpin Jose Aldo before meeting Conor McGregor on July 11th, and it was the Irishman who crushed Mendes' championship dream again when he stole the interim featherweight belt with a second-round TKO.
The Californian revealed to MMAFighting that the loss still haunts him one month on, admitting that he sometimes lies awake pondering what could have been.