Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Fans of “Game of Thrones” know very well that Hafthor Julius Bjornsson is not someone to be messed with. As Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane on the HBO series, the 27-year-old Iceland native, at 6-foot-9 and nearly 400 pounds, is an imposing force – and one known for a particular brand of cruelty and violence. In a widely viewed video put out at TheMacLife.com a few weeks back, UFC 194 headliner Conor McGregor found himself face to face with “The Mountain” as part of his training for Jose Aldo. McGregor said their bare-knuckle light sparring session was never meant to be. But after a friendly face-off that was supposed to be akin to Bruce Lee facing off with Kareem Abudl-Jabbar for a photo in the early 1970s, “The Notorious” suddenly was being chased by “The Mountain.” “It was a lot of fun,” McGregor recently said at a media lunch in Los Angeles promoting UFC 194
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