Conor McGregor explains precisely how he completed Jose Aldo in only 13 seconds

LAS VEGAS – It wasn't simply that Conor McGregor knocked out Jose Aldo in 13 seconds at UFC 194 on Saturday night with a left hook, in one of the most watched occasions in business enterprise records.

It changed into that he knew he might, and he called it.

in the publish-fight press conference at the MGM Grand, McGregor took the rostrum to answer questions from the media about his performance. the primary query wasn't so much a query as a question: How did he predict the outcome so correctly?

Analyst Robin Black examine McGregor again a comment he'd made on Thursday at the open workouts, and requested him how.

"I felt whilst we stared down, I felt his right hand was clinching, which was a diffused tell for me," Black examine back McGregor's phrases. "He is ready to sell off that right hand and i feel that is a downfall for him. If he lets that right hand pass, i'm able to now not be there. I genuinely input the manner I enter, and that is sufficient. They either over-expand, or they shrink away. both manner it isn't always proper for them. i will create traps and useless area inner that Octagon, and i can both rock him into that lifeless space, however all of a surprising he will be in threat."

asked how he did that, the 27-12 months Irishman pointed out visualization, projection, and ultimately, actualization.

"If you could see it here, and you have the courage enough to speak it, it'll take place," McGregor stated. "So, I see his photographs. I see his sequences. and i don't pull away from them. a variety of instances people believe in seeing matters however they preserve it to themselves. They don't positioned it out there. You genuinely agree with it if you emerge as vocal with it. It absolutely becomes reality.

"I knew he would overextend. and i knew i would catch him, so, 'Mystic Mac' strikes once more."

McGregor had predicted in different interviews that he could end the combat within 4 mins of the primary spherical. He stated afterwards there has been part of him that needed the "contest had stretched out a bit bit longer," however felt that the end result could have inevitably been the same.