You Don't Want To Miss Conor McGregor

PHILADELPHIA, PA (CBS) — The best pound-for-pound fighter in the world may not wear boxing gloves. In fact, looking over the combat-sport landscape, he doesn't.

That's because the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world is Ireland's Conor McGregor. He's brash, obnoxious, sarcastic, fearless and bold. Basically all of those good things fight fans love and hate about fighters.

McGregor, 27, will be facing an interesting test this Saturday at UFC 196 in Las Vegas when he takes on Nate Diaz (19-10), coupled with the Holly Holm-Miesha Tate title fight.

McGregor (19-2) was once a kid targeted by bullies in his youth, and it's where his passion for fighting stems.

"End of the first, I feel he will be put away," McGregor said at the UFC 196 press conference. "I respect Nate. Don't get me wrong. I do respect Nate. There's a lot of (expletives) in this game and he is not one of them. Don't get me wrong, there's a respect there between us but it's business in there and business is business. He will be KO'd inside the first round."

McGregor said he would smoke Jose Aldo in the first round of UFC 194. Aldo was a seven-time defending featherweight champion, who hadn't lost in almost a decade. McGregor crushed Also with one punch and needed just 13 seconds to dust him.

"I am the rule, I'm the only rule in this game. Nate is like an (expletive) gangster from the hood. Don't be puttin' my name to steroids, I'm major against that. I don't what the (expletive) he's talking about."

And so it went, during their press conference to announce this fight.

There are many sports fans, most of them over the age of 40 that have not given the MMA world its due time. But Conor McGregor, a smallish Mike Tyson-type with an Irish brogue, may be worth it.