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49 free Conor McGregor trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 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
Crumlin is where he joined the local boxing club at 12; a family move to Lucan in his teens then put him beside a classmate who introduced him to mixed martial arts.
Q 02McGregor's father Tony comes from which English city?
Liverpool
Liverpool was Tony McGregor's birthplace, to an Irish father and an English mother; he became a Dublin taxi driver and at first dismissed his son's dream of fighting for a living as fantasy.
Q 03Which trade apprenticeship did McGregor start at his parents' urging?
Plumbing
Plumbing was the trade his parents steered him into after school, but he soon refused to go back to the building site, clashing with a father who doubted that fighting could ever pay.
Q 04McGregor headlined UFC 205, the promotion's first card in which city after a state ban on professional MMA ended?
New York
New York was the last state to lift its ban on professional MMA, in 2016, and the UFC booked Madison Square Garden for that November on the very day the law was signed.
Q 05Who was McGregor's head coach at Dublin's Straight Blast Gym through both UFC title wins?
John Kavanagh
John Kavanagh answered the newcomer's reckless sparring on day one by taking him down and controlling him on the mat, a lesson teammate Aisling Daly says won McGregor's respect.
Q 06McGregor's 2016 tweet announcing he would 'retire young' added 'Thanks for the' what?
Cheese
Cheese was the word, and the retirement barely outlasted the joke: four months later he was back in the cage for his rematch with Nate Diaz.
Q 07Whom did McGregor face at UFC 329 in July 2026, his first fight in five years?
Max Holloway
Max Holloway, outpointed by McGregor back in 2013, won the rematch in just 69 seconds when McGregor was hurt after missing two high kicks and the referee waved it off.
Q 08McGregor's first professional loss came against leg-lock specialist Artemij Sitenkov by which submission?
Kneebar
Kneebar finished it in about a minute in front of a home Dublin crowd, and a devastated McGregor drifted away from the gym afterwards.
Q 09Which fighter handed McGregor his second professional defeat in 2010?
Joseph Duffy
Joseph Duffy submitted McGregor with an arm-triangle choke in the first round in November 2010; McGregor then won his next eight fights to earn a UFC contract.
Q 10Who contacted McGregor's coach to persuade him to keep fighting when he considered quitting?
His mother
His mother, Margaret, phoned his coach when Conor had stopped training and was weighing a different career; the coach visited him at home and persuaded him to return to the gym.
Q 11In which promotion did McGregor hold featherweight and lightweight titles at once before the UFC?
Cage Warriors
Cage Warriors crowned him at featherweight in June 2012 and at lightweight on New Year's Eve, and within six weeks the UFC had signed Europe's two-division champion.
Q 12Dana White says fans kept urging him to sign McGregor during a 2013 trip to accept an award at which Dublin university?
Trinity College
Trinity College's Philosophical Society honoured White in February 2013, and he tells of fans repeating McGregor's name all trip; reports of the signing had in fact appeared days before his talk there.
Q 13Whom did McGregor knock out in his UFC debut in April 2013?
Marcus Brimage
Q 21How quickly did McGregor knock out José Aldo at UFC 194?
13 seconds
McGregor knocked out Aldo in 13 seconds at UFC 194 on 12 December 2015, a left-hand counter that ended the Brazilian's ten-year, eighteen-fight winning streak and unified the featherweight title.
Q 22Whose broken foot cost McGregor a lightweight title shot in March 2016?
Rafael dos Anjos
Rafael dos Anjos, then lightweight champion, withdrew eleven days out with a broken foot; Nate Diaz stepped in at welterweight and submitted McGregor in round two, his first UFC defeat.
Q 23Why was McGregor pulled from the planned Diaz rematch at UFC 200?
Missing media obligations
Marcus Brimage lasted 67 seconds in Stockholm, and the Knockout of the Night bonus went to a fighter who had still been collecting €188 a week in welfare.
Q 14An MRI after McGregor's second UFC fight, a 2013 decision win in Boston, revealed what injury?
Torn ACL
Torn ACL: he felt the knee pop midway through round two, fought on to take the decision anyway, and then spent eleven months out.
Q 15Whom did McGregor stop at The O2 in Dublin in his July 2014 comeback fight?
Diego Brandão
Diego Brandão, a late replacement for the injured Cole Miller, lasted 4:05 of the first round, exactly the finish McGregor had promised his home crowd after eleven months out.
Q 16Which referee stopped McGregor's first fight with Dustin Poirier at UFC 178?
Herb Dean
Herb Dean stepped in at 1:46 of the first round after a left hook behind the ear dropped Poirier, and Nevada named him referee again when the pair's trilogy fight came round in 2021.
Q 17Which Irish singer performed 'The Foggy Dew' live for McGregor's UFC 189 entrance?
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor sang his usual walkout song live in the Las Vegas arena, an entrance the UFC still calls the gold standard of his walkouts, and McGregor paid tribute when she died in 2023.
Q 18Whom did McGregor beat at UFC 189 to win the interim featherweight title?
Chad Mendes
Chad Mendes stepped in on two weeks' notice when the champion withdrew and was stopped by TKO with three seconds left in round two, giving McGregor the interim featherweight belt.
Q 19What kind of injury forced José Aldo out of his planned UFC 189 title defence against McGregor?
Rib injury
Rib injury: Aldo withdrew less than two weeks out, and McGregor went on television to call it a bruise that doctors had cleared and to claim the champion was afraid.
Q 20Against whom did McGregor coach on The Ultimate Fighter in 2015?
Urijah Faber
Urijah Faber led the Americans against McGregor's Europeans, and his fighter Ryan Hall, beaten in the quarter-finals, returned as a late substitute to win the final against McGregor's man Artem Lobov.
Missing media obligations got him pulled: he refused to fly to Las Vegas for a press conference and commercial shoot, and the rematch was pushed back to UFC 202 that August.
Q 24Which event, headlined by Brock Lesnar against Frank Mir, held the UFC pay-per-view record until McGregor fought Nate Diaz in 2016?
UFC 100
UFC 100 stacked title defences by Lesnar and Georges St-Pierre on one card; it took McGregor and Diaz, with no belt at stake, to top its sales, their rematch reaching a reported 1.65 million buys.
Q 25Whom did McGregor beat at UFC 205 to become the UFC's first simultaneous two-division champion?
Eddie Alvarez
Eddie Alvarez was dropped three times in the first round and finished in the second, after which McGregor took the microphone to apologise 'to absolutely nobody'.
Q 26Why did McGregor announce a break after winning the UFC lightweight belt in 2016?
To await his first child's birth
To await his first child's birth, he told reporters after the fight, and Dana White put the break at ten months; his next fight was not in the UFC at all but a boxing match with Floyd Mayweather.
Q 27McGregor's boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr. was held at which venue?
T-Mobile Arena
T-Mobile Arena, just off the Las Vegas Strip, was left with thousands of empty seats, and the $55 million gate fell short of the record many had predicted.
Q 28Nevada's commission granted Mayweather and McGregor a one-time waiver allowing what?
8-ounce gloves
8-ounce gloves replaced the 10-ounce pair the rules demand above 147 pounds, after Mayweather proposed the switch on Instagram as a favour to a man used to 4-ounce MMA gloves.
Q 29What was McGregor's guaranteed purse for the Mayweather fight?
$30 million
$30 million was the guarantee the Nevada commission disclosed, ten times his previous best purse and still less than a third of the $100 million promised to Mayweather.
Q 30What specially created prize did McGregor and Mayweather box for in 2017?
WBC Money Belt
WBC Money Belt: no title was on the line, so the World Boxing Council made one from Italian alligator leather and 3,360 diamonds, and its president would only say it had cost a fortune.