Now that the Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight is in the past, everyone wants to know what's next for Conor.
Will the face of the UFC take another shot at winning in the boxing world or will his next bout be inside the octagon? Right now, nobody has the answer to those questions, but it would be safe to assume that McGregor's next fight will be in the UFC.
Against who, though, is hard to predict. The one fight everyone wants to see is the Nate Diaz trilogy, but there are a litany of other opponents that fans want to see Conor take on.
While there doesn't seem to be a bad option for who McGregor fights next, Diaz seems like the best option and Conor's coach John Kavanagh agrees, as he explained in a written piece for The42."As for what’s next, we’re currently taking a bit of down time after a fairly exhausting few months. Conor is in Ibiza for a friend’s wedding, I’m in Florida with my fiancée Orlagh and we haven’t looked too far beyond that.
I’ve said for a long time that the Nate Diaz trilogy fight at lightweight is what I’d personally like to see next. That still needs to be put to bed.
Even though Conor is the champion, I know there’s an interim lightweight title fight coming up between Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee. To be completely honest, I didn’t actually know who Kevin was until very recently.
Tony is a solid fighter but he doesn’t have the kind of appeal that would get your blood racing, particularly in the context of coming from the excitement of the Nate Diaz rematch, the historical significance of beating Eddie Alvarez at Madison Square Garden, and the novelty of facing the greatest boxer of his generation."
It's been over a year since Diaz and McGregor fought for the second time and we'd love to see them end their rivalry with what would be an epic fight to complete the trilogy.
If that's not what ends up happening, though, fans have some thoughts on who Conor should fight outside of the UFC/Boxing world that would probably be very entertaining, too.
(H/T: Uproxx)
