MMA coach Rafael Cordeiro has insisted that Conor McGregor would be beaten by all the top-15 ranked fighters in the UFC lightweight division.
Former two-weight champion McGregor, 34, makes his fighting return after over two years away from the cage when he faces Michael Chandler later this year. 'Notorious' is without a win in over three years and his lack activity accompanied by his back-to-back defeats to Dustin Poirier in 2021 saw him lose his lightweight ranking last December.
Cordeiro, who coaches one of McGregor's UFC rivals in Rafael Dos Anjos, has insisted the Irishman would have to fight some unranked at lightweight to have any chance of winning. “There’s Arman [Tsarukyan], a super tough kid. There’s [Mateusz] Gamrot, [Dustin] Poirier, [Justin] Gaethje. A lot of people. [Rafael] Fiziev, super tough guy,” he told MMA Fighting.
