{"id":178367,"date":"2015-12-06T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=178367"},"modified":"2015-12-06T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:35:23","slug":"conor-mcgregor-interview-not-even-a-mountain-can-take-these-shots-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/conor-mcgregor-interview-not-even-a-mountain-can-take-these-shots-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor Interview: &#8220;Not even a Mountain can take these shots from me!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conor McGregor vs The Mountain (Game of Thrones)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aaehn1aY8Ig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All eyes on Conor McGregor heading into UFC 194. The video above has a just a little over 9 million views, which means not everyone has seen it yet. McGregor also explained how Bjornsson &#8220;The Mountain&#8221; was only there for a photo shoot and square off, similar to the Bruce <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/wsatch-rare-footage-of-bruce-lee-full-contact-sparring-in-color\/\">Lee<\/a> &#8211; Abdul Jabbar &#8220;Game of Death&#8221; face off shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a lot of fun,\u201d McGregor recently said at a media lunch in Los Angeles promoting UFC 194. MMAJunkie quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/conor-mcgregor-on-jose-aldo-peace-will-be-restored-through-battle\/\">McGregor<\/a>: \u201cThat\u2019s a big man \u2013\u00a06-foot-9, 400 pounds, and I still folded him up. I was hitting him with some shots \u2013\u00a0I had to hit him with some shots. He was trying to hit me, as well. People say, \u2018He was taking it easy.\u2019 He tried to grab me and tried to pull my head off and I defended \u2013\u00a0freed the head. I was like, this motherf-cker is so big, I have to start smacking him to the body. \u2026 But I sunk him good. Not even a \u2018Mountain\u2019 can take these shots from me.\u201d McGregor said<\/p>\n<p>McGregor spoke about his sparring session with Bjornsson, who has\u00a0one the title of \u00a0Iceland\u2019s strongest man, two times as\u00a0the strongest man in Europe, and a top-three finish in the World\u2019s Strongest Man competition for four years running.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it was just a sparring session, the size difference was massive. Bjornsson looked light on his feet for such a beast. \u00a0Enjoy the video.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; All eyes on Conor McGregor heading into UFC 194. The video above has a just a little over 9 million views, which means not everyone has seen it yet. McGregor also explained how Bjornsson &#8220;The Mountain&#8221; was only there for a photo shoot and square off, similar to the Bruce Lee &#8211; Abdul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":178372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conor McGregor Interview: &quot;Not even a Mountain can take these shots from me!&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/conor-mcgregor-interview-not-even-a-mountain-can-take-these-shots-from-me\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conor McGregor Interview: &quot;Not even a Mountain can take these shots from me!&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; All eyes on Conor McGregor heading into UFC 194. 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