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Joseph Duffy Says He Can Take Conor McGregor
In an interview with The MMA Hour (via Bloody Elbow), Joseph Duffy dismissed Conor McGregor’s trash talk and said he knows he can take him in a fight. The two previously fought in 2010 and Duffy won by submission in 38 seconds. Here are highlights:
On McGregor’s trash talk: “Nothing Conor says can get under my skin. If it was somebody who I cared about, like my family, saying this, yeah maybe. But Conor’s opinion doesn’t matter to me. He can say what he wants, and it doesn’t change the way I would fight him. It doesn’t change the fact that I think I would still beat him. None of that stuff changes. None of that will ever get under my skin.”
On how a rematch between the two would go: “I believe I can take Conor out just as quickly. Everyone notices Conor has greatly improved, but so am I. Everything Conor does, I feel I can beat him at. He uses more kicks, I’ve been doing taekwondo since I was five. There’s not an area I feel he can beat me.”
On if he plans to call out McGregor: “We’ll just have to see what happens. We’ll see how things go and how I feel, and we’ll go from there. I’ll guess I’ll leave people in suspense for that.”