{"id":198083,"date":"2016-07-05T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=198083"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:03:14","slug":"conor-mcgregor-first-nate-diaz-fight-mismanaged-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-first-nate-diaz-fight-mismanaged-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor on first Nate Diaz fight: ‘I mismanaged my weight’"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor<\/a> is set to rematch Nate Diaz<\/a> in a non-title welterweight bout at UFC 202.<\/p>\n

McGregor has been “obsessed”<\/a> with his first loss in the UFC and is looking to show the first fight with Diaz was just a fluke.<\/p>\n

“I am forever, forever learning,” McGregor told ESPN<\/a>. “I think in the last fight [against Nate Diaz in March], I mismanaged my weight. I was working with my nutritionist for the lightweight title fight to make 155 pounds. I was on track. Nine days out from the fight, I’m in phenomenal condition, and then the weight got changed [to 170] and all of a sudden I’m 10 pounds below and I’m like, I don’t need this diet because I need to eat up to the weight. So I threw that out. I disengaged from that. I started eating two steaks a day, two breakfasts. I’d have a coffee and some cookies with that, please, also. I’d be in the gym six to eight hours on fight week. I’ve got bags of energy. I can do this all day. But it came back and bit me in the ass. My body went into shock. I overtrained and then mismanaged the weight, and it came back to bite me on the ass.”<\/p>\n

“The Notorious” went on to detail how his preparation for the bout with Diaz was different from any other professional fight he has had.<\/p>\n

“When I’m cutting weight, I kind of baby myself to preserve energy to make the weight and to be energetic in the fight. But this fight I didn’t even have to make weight. In fact, I was stuffing my face. I was heavier around the midsection. I wasn’t as lean as I usually am, so my performance was hindered. My gas tank gave in. I had to take a very honest look at what I was doing with my preparation, so I have done that. I’ve brought in people specifically to monitor my cardiovascular. I’m doing something a little bit differently. So everything is a lesson and everything is a blessing.”<\/p>\n

Will Conor McGregor be able to overcome Nate Diaz in their rematch? Or does Diaz simply have McGregor’s number<\/a>? Sound off in the comment section!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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