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Watch: Jon Jones Drowned Out By Irish Fans As He Addresses McGregor's Pound-For-Pound Claims

Gavan Casey
By Gavan Casey
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"Calm down you Irish!"

Jon Jones certainly isn't the first fighter to have his line of thought disrupted by Conor McGregor's travelling green army, and he won't be the last.

McGregor was the headline act on our daily sports podcast, The Racket:

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Tonight, at the UFC Unstoppable press conference, Jones was quizzed as to whether he still believes himself to be pound-for-pound the best mixed martial artist on the planet, in light of recent claims to the contrary by his typically humble pal from Crumlin.

Before Jones could even make sense of the question, Irish fans - somewhat messingly - leapt on the controversial former light-heavyweight champion with a shrill blast of the unofficial national anthem, much to the 29-year-old's amusement.

With credit to Jones, he dealt well with the aural assault, along with the fiendish moves of one particularly zealous, tricolor-wielding lunatic, and his description of McGregor was indicative of the pair's mutual respect for each other as fighters.

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Jones faces Daniel Cormier for the second time at UFC 197 this April.

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