UFC 189 might have lost featherweight champion Jose Aldo as headliner, but with Team Alpha Male’s top-contender Chad Mendes, another man with lots of animosity towards Conor McGregor stepped in and will fight for the interim belt next week.
Of course, there’s no big UFC pay-per-view without another edition of the Embedded video-blog series. This first episode starts off, following McGregor to New York, where he helped unveil Reebok’s new UFC Fight Kit, before Dana White announced on live television that it will be Mendes, not Aldo, fighting the Irishman in UFC 189’s main event on July 11.
Then the camera’s jump to Sacramento, where Mendes is getting prepared for his big night. For months, both fighters have exchanged verbal blows, so unsurprisingly, after he finished his training session, Mendes delivered another jab at McGregor, comparing him to a little dog.
“Conor is like a chihuahua, he’s all bark. See, Conor is a master at selling fights and talking s—. So Conor can say what he wants, nothing is gonna get in my head. This is what I was born to do,” Mendes said. “I started wrestling when I was five years old. I haven’t taken a year off since. I had guys talking s— during competition, you know, I beat them every time. Conor is gonna say a bunch of stupid s— and I’m gonna be here, and I’m gonna be there whipping his ass. I can’t wait!”
You can watch the whole video above.