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McGregor: Mayweather will fall and 'become nothing' like Aldo

Conor McGregor made a thought-provoking comparison Friday at his media open workout ahead of his enormous boxing showdown with all-time great Floyd Mayweather.

The UFC two-division world champion said Jose Aldo was once just like Mayweather: a dominant champion considered to be one of the greatest, who most thought couldn’t be beaten.

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“Wait until you see when (Mayweather) falls – how you all write him off after this and he becomes like Aldo,” McGregor told reporters at the UFC Performance Institute.