{"id":201261,"date":"2016-08-15T19:36:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T02:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=201261"},"modified":"2016-08-15T19:44:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T02:44:51","slug":"conor-mcgregor-getting-close-now-want-fight-back-home-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-getting-close-now-want-fight-back-home-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor: &#8220;It&#8217;s getting close for me now&#8230; I want to fight back home in Ireland&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has not fought in his home country of Ireland since scoring a first-round TKO victory over Diego Brandao in July of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mystic Mac&#8221; was a guest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2016\/8\/15\/12477616\/the-mma-hour-with-conor-mcgregor-john-kavanagh-demian-maia-artem\" target=\"_blank\">Monday&#8217;s edition of The MMA Hour<\/a> with Ariel Helwani where he discussed his desire to once again compete on his home soil: <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI fight all the f*cking time, so it\u2019s getting close for me now that I want to fight back home. I want to give my fans back home in Ireland a fight. I\u2019ve been kept away from my home for a while. I understand that it\u2019s a big business out here, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re here. I\u2019ve got to handle myself too. As much as I want to perform for the fans back home, and I want to have those shows back home and do that.. I\u2019ve still got to handle my business out here (in Vegas).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ealvarezfight\/status\/762496323631190016\" target=\"_blank\">expressed interest<\/a> in making his first title defense against Conor McGregor in Ireland. <\/p>\n<p>If Conor is able to defeat Diaz this Saturday night at UFC 202 in Las Vegas is a lightweight title fight against Alvarez in Dublin the next big fight for the brash Irish superstar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has not fought in his home country of Ireland since scoring a first-round TKO victory over Diego Brandao in July of 2014. &#8220;Mystic Mac&#8221; was a guest on Monday&#8217;s edition of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani where he discussed his desire to once again compete on his home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":199335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089],"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: &quot;It&#039;s getting close for me now... 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