LAS VEGAS – It wasn't just that Conor McGregor knocked out Jose Aldo in 13 seconds at UFC 194 on Saturday night with a left hook, in one of the most watched events in company history.
It was that he knew he would, and he called it.
In the post-fight press conference at the MGM Grand, McGregor took the podium to answer questions from the media about his performance. The first question wasn't so much a question as a query: How did he predict the outcome so accurately?
Analyst Robin Black read McGregor back a comment he'd made on Thursday at the open workouts, and asked him how.