Former two-weight UFC champion, Conor McGregor has heaped praise on newly-minted WBO light welterweight champion, Teofiomo Lopez, after the outspoken New York native clinched division gold against Scottish gold holder, Josh Taylor over the weekend on home soil.
McGregor, who has only once competed in professional boxing, made a brief, but lucrative venture into the sport back in 2017 against former multiple-weight champion, Floyd Mayweather, suffering an eventual tenth standing TKO loss against the latter.
Sidelined from mixed martial arts competition since July 2021, however, Conor McGregor has yet to return to the UFC since he fractured his left tibia and fibula en route to a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO loss to Dustin Poirier in their bitter, trilogy rubber-match in Las Vegas, Nevada.