LAS VEGAS -- If Conor McGregor wanted it, he could launch a second career as a motivational speaker.
Mixed martial arts is filled with colorful characters and larger-than-life loudmouths. McGregor is far from the first fighter to talk big.
But never in the history of this rambunctious traveling carnival have we ever had someone start making brash proclamations while at the bottom and have nearly everything he's predicted, every step along the way, come true in the manner of this brash Irish featherweight.
There's something to be said for the power of visualization and belief in one's self.