No one in the near quarter-century history of modern mixed martial arts ever had a year quite like the one Irish superstar Conor McGregor experienced in 2016.
McGregor did what no fighter in the history of the UFC could ever pull off -- not Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, Jon Jones, B.J. Penn, Royce Gracie or anyone else -- and held two weight class titles at the same time.
The 28-year-old Dublin native, who won the UFC featherweight championship in December 2015 with a 13-second finish of Jose Aldo, knocked out Eddie Alvarez in the second round of the main event of UFC 205, the historic first MMA card ever held at New York City’s hallowed Madison Square Garden.