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Joseph Duffy Says He Can Take Conor McGregor

October 13, 2015 | Posted by Joseph Lee

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.”