50 free Conor McGregor trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Conor McGregor was a plumbing apprentice from Crumlin who trained in a Dublin gym under John Kavanagh, won two Cage Warriors belts at once, and talked his way into a UFC contract after Dana White was mobbed on a trip to Trinity College. Within three years he had knocked out José Aldo in thirteen seconds, become the UFC's first simultaneous two-division champion and sold more pay-per-views than anyone in the sport's history. This quiz follows the whole arc: the amateur debut for Irish Ring of Truth, the early losses, the Brimage knockout, the Holloway decision that cost him an ACL, the Mendes and Aldo title nights, the Diaz rivalry, the Alvarez masterclass, the Mayweather boxing match and its gloves, belt and purses, the Nurmagomedov submission, the Cerrone and Poirier fights, the broken tibia, and the business, legal and political storylines that followed. Fifty questions with four options each and a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for fight night.
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Q 01In which Dublin suburb was Conor McGregor raised?
Crumlin
He attended Irish-language schools in Harold's Cross and Tallaght before the family moved to Lucan when he was 13.
Q 02McGregor's father Tony comes from which English city?
Liverpool
Tony was born to an English mother and an Irish father; Conor is a Manchester United and Celtic supporter anyway.
Q 03Which trade apprenticeship did McGregor start at his parents' urging?
Plumbing
He lasted about a year and found the work difficult and uninteresting; his later court records note he was still an apprentice in 2009.
Q 04Which future UFC fighter did McGregor meet in Lucan and begin training MMA alongside?
Tom Egan
Egan became the first Irish fighter in the UFC; McGregor followed him as the second in 2013.
Q 05Who began coaching McGregor at Straight Blast Gym in Dublin in 2008?
John Kavanagh
Kavanagh's SBG Ireland also produced Gunnar Nelson, Artem Lobov and Charlie Ward.
Q 06McGregor's 2007 amateur debut against Kieran Campbell was for which promotion?
Irish Ring of Truth
He won by first-round TKO and immediately turned professional with the Irish Cage of Truth promotion.
Q 07Whom did McGregor beat in his first professional MMA bout in March 2008?
Gary Morris
It was a lightweight fight won by second-round TKO; his featherweight debut came a few fights later.
Q 08McGregor's first professional loss, to Artemij Sitenkov, came by which submission?
Kneebar
Sitenkov was a submission specialist; it was McGregor's featherweight debut.
Q 09Which fighter handed McGregor his second professional defeat in 2010?
Joseph Duffy
Duffy won with an arm-triangle choke; McGregor then reeled off an eight-fight winning streak.
Q 10Who contacted McGregor's coach to persuade him to keep fighting when he considered quitting?
His mother
The intervention came after his win over Stephen Bailey, when he was contemplating a different career path.
Q 11In which promotion did McGregor hold featherweight and lightweight titles at once before the UFC?
Cage Warriors
That made him the first European pro mixed martial artist to hold two divisional titles simultaneously.
Q 12Dana White was mobbed with requests to sign McGregor while visiting which Dublin university in 2013?
Trinity College
White was there to receive a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from the student Philosophical Society.
Q 13Whom did McGregor knock out in his UFC debut in April 2013?
Marcus Brimage
The first-round finish earned him his first Knockout of the Night bonus.
Q 21How quickly did McGregor knock out José Aldo at UFC 194?
13 seconds
It remains the fastest finish in a UFC title fight and ended Aldo's eighteen-fight winning streak.
Q 22Whose broken foot cost McGregor a lightweight title shot in March 2016?
Rafael dos Anjos
Nate Diaz stepped in at welterweight and submitted McGregor with a rear naked choke in round two.
Q 23Why was McGregor pulled from the planned Diaz rematch at UFC 200?
Missing media obligations
The rematch moved to UFC 202 the next month, where he won a majority decision.
Q 14An MRI after his 2013 win over Max Holloway revealed McGregor had suffered what injury?
Torn ACL
He won the decision 30–27, 30–27, 30–26 on the damaged knee and was out for up to ten months.
Q 15Whom did McGregor stop at The O2 in Dublin in his July 2014 comeback fight?
Diego Brandão
Brandão was a late replacement for Cole Miller; the win earned McGregor his first Performance of the Night award.
Q 16Which referee stopped McGregor's first fight with Dustin Poirier at UFC 178?
Herb Dean
The finish came at 1:46 of round one and was Poirier's first UFC loss by knockout.
Q 17Which Irish singer performed 'The Foggy Dew' live for McGregor's UFC 189 entrance?
Sinéad O'Connor
The event set a Nevada attendance record of 16,019 and a US MMA gate record of $7.2 million.
Q 18Whom did McGregor beat at UFC 189 to win the interim featherweight title?
Chad Mendes
Mendes took the fight on short notice after the original opponent withdrew; McGregor won by TKO.
Q 19What injury forced José Aldo out of the planned UFC 189 title fight?
Rib fracture
The pair had just completed a 12-day, eight-city world tour to promote the bout.
Q 20Against whom did McGregor coach on The Ultimate Fighter in 2015?
Urijah Faber
Faber's team member Ryan Hall won that season; McGregor coached again in 2023.
Q 24UFC 202's 1,650,000 buys broke a pay-per-view record previously held by which event?
UFC 100
The Diaz rematch was also awarded Fight of the Night, as the first bout had been.
Q 25Whom did McGregor beat at UFC 205 to become the UFC's first simultaneous two-division champion?
Eddie Alvarez
He dropped Alvarez repeatedly in round one and finished him in the second, repeating his Cage Warriors feat.
Q 26Why did McGregor announce time off from the UFC after winning the lightweight belt in 2016?
To await his first child's birth
He spent most of early 2017 campaigning instead for a boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Q 27McGregor's boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr. was held at which venue?
T-Mobile Arena
The arena sits in Paradise, Nevada; the gate came to more than $55 million from 13,094 tickets.
Q 28The Mayweather–McGregor bout was contested at which weight limit?
154 pounds
That is the super welterweight limit; the pair wore 8 oz gloves.
Q 29What was McGregor's guaranteed purse for the Mayweather fight?
$30 million
Mayweather's guarantee was $100 million; with pay-per-view shares McGregor reportedly cleared about $130 million.
Q 30What specially created prize did McGregor and Mayweather box for in 2017?
WBC Money Belt
Mayweather won by TKO in the tenth round with all three judges' cards in his favour.