Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos LAS VEGAS – You know there was a moment during Conor McGregor ’s main event victory over Chad Mendes at UFC 189 where the UFC brass got worried. It was probably somewhere between takedowns three and four for Mendes (17-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC), slightly before the second-round TKO finish , but right around the time McGregor (18-2 MMA, 6-0 UFC) seemed like he was going to spend all night gazing up at the ceiling of the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and Mendes seemed like he was going to grind his way into a third shot at UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo . That wasn’t just blood leaking out of McGregor’s face – that was money. It was a potential UFC superstar being gradually downgraded to regular star, and in front of thousands of rabid Irish fans who had traveled a long way just to see questions about McGregor’s wrestling skills answered in the most unpleasant fashion possible
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