Tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET UFC fans will be treated to a Boston, Massachusetts fight card featuring "The Notorious" Connor McGregor against Dennis Siver in the main event. The main card can be live streamed free by clicking this link, while a slew of preliminary fights can be seen on Fox Sports 1 beginning at 7:00 p.m. Watch the early prelims here.
McGregor is one of UFC's fastest rising stars, and he has risen as much because of his boasting as his skill. The Notorious doesn't consider his talk "trash," though, but rather truth.
"It's more truth-talking," McGregor explained. "I don't speak trash. I speak truth. Occasionally, I might throw in a little insult here or there, but this is the Irish way. I speak the truth. If I feel something is the way it is, I will say it. I will let it be known. Some people can't handle the truth. That's not my problem."
McGregor has seized on the "truth" to try and get inside the head of Siver, who has a past that includes performance enhancing drug use. He's called Siver a "cheater" and a "Nazi" and told ESPN personality Dan LeBatard "I feel like he's been on that stuff his whole career." He also made clear, "I don't respect an individual like that."
Some fans and other fighters perhaps don't respect the speed with which McGregor has been thrust to the top of fight cards, nor do they respect his competition. McGregor is trying to meet that head-on, by challenging fighters with strong wrestling bases to prove the UFC isn't "protecting" a potential cash cow.
"There is that wrestler question I keep hearing the fans say," McGregor told ESPN.com. "I want to address that wrestler question and take on Frankie [Edgar], take on Chad [Mendes]. Taking on these so-called wrestlers could end up keeping me in this division.
"I do not care what fans think, but if there are questions people want answered, I will answer them. If there is money on the table, I will go out and make it. The fans are interested in this wrestler question and will tune in to see it."
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