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Right as Conor McGregor leapt up to attempt to kick Max Holloway’s head clean off, the first true potential successor to McGregor was being interviewed.  Paddy Pimblett stopped his interview, barely sweating after dispatching ex French special forces soldier Benoit Saint-Denis inside a minute, and saw that McGregor was already done.   With a Logan Roy after Kendall killed the waiter level of ruthlessness and opportunism, Pimblett seized the moment. He said, shortly after registering a level of shock, “well he’s finished! The new boy is in town! The main man’s here!”  He’s right. On both counts.   Firstly, McGregor truly is finished.   In a rational…

On Sunday afternoon Australian time, Conor McGregor is back.   Again.   After five years out of the Octagon post-breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier – and after various life events that included the taking of “banned drugs” to recover, a finding against him in a sexual assault lawsuit, a couple of political campaigns, a White House visit – he’s back to doing what made him famous: fighting in the UFC.   But this one feels like the last comeback.  At 37 and with just two fights left on his UFC contract, and a record of 1-3 in his last seven years with the UFC, the man that has loomed over the UFC for the better…