Jorge Masvidal has rekindled his rivalry with Conor McGregor, sending multiple warnings to the former two-division UFC champion. <\/p>\n
Jorge Masvidal has sounded off against a fighter with whom he’s long shared an intense rivalry but hasn’t faced inside the Octagon yet.<\/p>\n
The fighter in question is none other than former UFC<\/a> featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor<\/a>. Masvidal signaled that he’d have attacked McGregor even after seeing that the latter suffered a mid-fight leg injury at UFC 329.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jorge Masvidal reignites Conor McGregor feud, claims he’d have hurt the MMA icon at UFC 329<\/p>\n Conor McGregor suffered a left-leg injury at UFC 264 back in July of 2021, which was followed by a five-year break from professional MMA competition. The mixed martial arts icon was said to be working on his entrepreneurial pursuits, and several attempts to agree with the UFC for a comeback fight didn’t materialize.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nevertheless, he finally made his comeback at UFC 329 in July of this year. McGregor fought Max Holloway<\/a> in a rematch, having beaten him via unanimous decision in their first encounter at featherweight in 2013. Regardless, “The Mac” ended up losing their rematch, a welterweight clash, via first-round TKO, as a jumping\/flying switch kick missed and injured his right knee.\u00a0<\/p>\n During a recent conversation with Jake Noecker on Home of Fight, Jorge Masvidal reignited his rivalry against McGregor. The street fighting veteran-turned-MMA athlete underlined that although Max Holloway appeared to refrain from going all out in attacking McGregor after the knee injury, he wouldn’t have shown that kind of restraint.\u00a0<\/p>\n Masvidal asserted that he “would love to slap” his Irish counterpart. The American fighter of Cuban descent added, “Max (Holloway) is nice. I would’ve punched him right in his face after he f**king fell. Max is a nice guy. Those Hawaiian guys are the meanest, but they’re also the nicest. ‘Cause I would’ve punched him (Conor McGregor) right dead in his f**king mouth.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The 41-year-old indicated that McGregor was attempting to land a potentially devastating strike on Holloway, so the latter had the right to retaliate and hurt him. Masvidal insinuated that although there might be some other fighters he’d have displayed restraint with in such an injury-marred scenario, McGregor isn’t one with whom he’d hold back.\u00a0<\/p>\n Harking back to McGregor’s altercation with an individual at an Irish pub from several years ago, Masvidal said, “For the dude at the bar, here you go. For the senior citizen grandpa… Right in the f**king mouth.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Jorge Masvidal believes his fight against Conor McGregor is unlikely to materialize<\/p>\n