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For more from the 2016 Body Issue, check out espn.com/bodyissue! And pick up a copy on newsstands starting July 8.Retiring early? Not so much. MMA fighter Conor McGregor is definitely still swinging. On the set of his Body Issue photo shoot in May, McGregor sat down with Kenny Mayne and talked about getting into the ring with Floyd Mayweather, fighting hungry and his strong Irish genes.I dreamt every day of making it as a fighter, every damn day. Sitting on in the car park, on my lunch break, early mornings. I always visualized climbing the ladder of the fight game and reaching the pinnacle.My unpredictability is what separates me. I move in many ways. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what hes doing. Hes focusing on what youre doing and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.Verbal warfare is another form of warfare, so I look to engage in that 100 percent. Its just part of the game. Its part of the business. You beat him verbally, you beat him mentally and then finally you beat him physically. Thats the three ways to beat a man.If I only had to focus on boxing, hell, Id be neck and neck with Floyd right now. Im in the game of spinning plates. Im spinning a boxing plate. Im spinning a taekwondo plate. Im spinning a jiujitsu plate. Im spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. Im spinning a karate plate. There are so many spinning plates in this game. If I was to put all of them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.Many people who practice in only one discipline of fighting are lying to themselves. You cant fight fully. Its limited. Its not the full circle. Youre afraid of everything else. Youre just doing this one single thing. But we practice in everything.I am forever, forever learning. I think in the last fight [against Nate Diaz in March], I mismanaged my weight. I was working with my nutritionist for the lightweight title fight to make 155 pounds. I was on track. Nine days out from the fight, Im in phenomenal condition, and then the weight got changed [to 170] and all of a sudden Im 10 pounds below and Im like, I dont need this diet because I need to eat up to the weight. So I threw that out. I disengaged from that. I started eating two steaks a day, two breakfasts. Id have a coffee and some cookies with that, please, also. Id be in the gym six to eight hours on fight week. Ive got bags of energy. I can do this all day. But it came back and bit me in the ass. My body went into shock. I overtrained and then mismanaged the weight, and it came back to bite me on the ass.When Im cutting weight, I kind of baby myself to preserve energy to make the weight and to be energetic in the fight. But this fight I didnt even have to make weight. In fact, I was stuffing my face. I was heavier around the midsection. I wasnt as lean as I usually am, so my performance was hindered. My gas tank gave in. I had to take a very honest look at what I was doing with my preparation, so I have done that. Ive brought in people specifically to monitor my cardiovascular. Im doing something a little bit differently. So everything is a lesson and everything is a blessing.I entered that last fight full. I was full in every sense. My plate was full, my belly was full. Thats not why we fight. We originally fight for food, to eat. We fight hungry. The birth of fighting is to eat. So Im happy with the lessons learned. I feel like my gut has been emptied again, like I am hungry again.There aint many people going up 25 pounds to fight on the drop of a hat, in nine days. I rocked up to 170 [for the Diaz fight in March]. Never fought at 170 in my life. I rocked up no problem. I slapped the head off of him for nine minutes of that fight. Look at his face. I busted him up. With the correct tank, the correct approach, Im going to cakewalk this next one if we can get to that point.When the tank goes, its done. When you go past that line, no amount of skill can save you. There is no coming back from it in a fight.I have a sweet tooth. But my nutrition is another thing that Ive become obsessed with lately. Right now Im following a strict nutrition plan, and I eat on the clock. My body is feeling good. Its not depleting me, because again, if I get the fight Im looking for, it will still be up a weight. Its still the challenge Im seeking.It was quiet during the struggle. Everything else is noise. I find that the struggle is peaceful and beautifully quiet. Whereas everyone wants to be involved in success, very, very few want to be involved in the struggle. So Im enjoying the quiet and the peace in the struggle right now.This is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business. And Im cool with that.You grow up where Im from, you must learn how to defend yourself as a young man. I was no different. I got into it to learn how to fight, and thats why I walked into my first combat gym.Im just a kid that defied the odds. Im just a kid that ignored the doubt. Im just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and Im going to continue to go all the way.The left paw has done me well over the years. Im not a scientist, Im a martial artist. I did do one of those sport science things where they measured the time and my reaction. But all of that really means nothing in there. I think timing is the key -- surprise and timing. If you can master those two, you dont necessarily need brute force to put a man down. You place the correct shot at the correct time, you will put a man down.Right now, Im focusing on my skills, because the skills is what pays the bills. Im also focused on my cardiovascular training. But you know, ask me tomorrow and it will be something else Ill become obsessed with. Im just looking to learn, grow, stay focused and become a better fighter and a better athlete.I tell you what, them Irish genes are good. Theyve served me well. We are made tough. We are made of steel. So I have no doubt the blood in my genes, the Irish blood in me has definitely stood me. My familys lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt thats stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.Justin Turner Jersey . Laudrup revealed Thursday he was notified of his dismissal in "the briefest of letters which gave no reasons why such hasty and final action was deemed necessary. Joc Pederson Jersey . 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Was this the lowest target successfully defended in any Test match? asked Lakshmi Narayanan from India Australias target on that turning track in Mumbai in November 2004 was actually 107, but they were all out for 93, so lost by 13 runs. There have been two lower targets in Tests that were not reached by the team batting fourth. In Port-of-Spain in 1999-2000, Zimbabwe needed just 99 to defeat West Indies for the first time - but were skittled for 63, with Curtly Ambrose taking 3 for 8 and Franklyn Rose 4 for 19. They have still never beaten West Indies in a Test. But the lowest of all came in the famous match at The Oval in 1882, which spawned the Ashes. England needed just 85 to beat Australia - but, with Fred The Demon Spofforth taking 7 for 44, England collapsed for 77 to lose by seven runs.I heard that Mitchell Starc was the fastest to reach 100 wickets in ODIs. Whose record did he beat? asked Jared Homerton from Australia Mitchell Starc took his 100th wicket - Dhananjaya de Silva of Sri Lanka - in his 52nd one-day international, at the SSC in Colombo last week. He was one game quicker to the landmark than the Pakistan offspinner Saqlain Mushtaq, who reached 100 in May 1997. The New Zealander Shane Bond took 54 matches, and Brett Lee of Australia 55. Next comes Imran Tahir of South Africa (58 matches), just ahead of Morne Morkel, Irfan Pathan and Waqar Younis (all 59). The slowest to 100 ODI wickets were Sourav Ganguly and Tillakaratne Dilshan, who both got there in their 311th games.Mitchell Starc took 24 wickets in the three Tests in Sri Lanka - but Australia lost the lot. Was this the record for a losing three-Test series? asked Tushar Mukherjee from the United States The record in this regard was set in an earlier Sri Lanka-Australia series. Back in March 2004, Muttiah Muralitharan took 28 wickets - but Australia, in their first series under new captain Ricky Ponting, won all three Tests, despite conceding a first-innings lead in all of them. Charles Buck Llewellyn took 25 wickets for South Africa in the three-Test home series against Australia in 1902-03, but the Aussies won that one 2-0, with one draw. Was Alzarri Joseph the first debutant to bag a pair in Tests? asked Neeraj Nayak from India West Indies promising 19-year-old fast bowler Alzarri Joseph was indeed dismissed withoout scoring in both innings of his first Test, against India in St Lucia earlier this month.dddddddddddd But hes in good company: Joseph was actually the 41st debutant to suffer this fate in a Test. The previous one was another West Indian, opener Rajendra Chandrika (who played in the first two matches of this series against India, but missed Josephs debut). Chandrika made nought in each innings of his first match, against Australia in Kingston last year. The list includes some famous names, notably Graham Gooch (1975), Ken Rutherford (1985-86), Marvan Atapattu and Saeed Anwar (both 1990-91).Was the aggregate record for runs set in the Leeds Test of 1948? asked AK Srivastava from India There were 1723 runs scored (for the loss of 31 wickets) in the Test you are talking about - the fourth one of the 1948 Ashes series at Headingley, won by Don Bradmans Invincibles, who famously scored 404 for 3 on the final day. That was a record for a five-day Test at the time, but it was overhauled in Adelaide in 1968-69, when Australia and West Indies shared 1764 runs. There have been two higher aggregates in timeless Test matches. In Kingston in 1929-30, West Indies and England amassed 1815 runs, but the overall record was set in the ten-day Test in Durban in 1938-39, when South Africa and England piled up 1981 runs between them (England were 654 for 5, chasing 696, when the match had to be abandoned). For the full list of the highest Test run aggregates, click here.Have South Africa ever staged Test matches in August before? asked Danie Strydom from South Africa The opening encounter against New Zealand in Durban, which started on August 19, was easily the earliest that a Test match had been played in the South African summer. There have never been any Tests in South Africa in September either. The previous earliest was the first Test of the 1902-03 series against Australia - who were on the way back from an England tour - which started in Johannesburg on October 11, 1902. At the other end of their summer South Africa have played only one home Test in May - the third one against New Zealand in Johannesburg in 2006. That match was over in three days, and finished on May 7. The previous Test, in Cape Town, ended on May 1.Send in your questions using our feedback form. ' ' '