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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
McGregor was born and raised in Crumlin, a working-class suburb of south Dublin, where he boxed at Crumlin Boxing Club as a boy before the family moved to Lucan in 2006.
Q 02McGregor's father Tony comes from which English city?
Liverpool
Tony McGregor was born in Liverpool to an English mother and an Irish father and later settled in Dublin, where Conor was born in July 1988.
Q 03Which trade apprenticeship did McGregor start at his parents' urging?
Plumbing
McGregor started a Plumbing apprenticeship after leaving school but quit to train in mixed martial arts full-time, drawing social welfare payments before his 2013 UFC debut.
Q 04Which future UFC fighter did McGregor meet in Lucan and begin training MMA alongside?
Tom Egan
Tom Egan, a schoolmate in Lucan, trained alongside McGregor and in January 2009 became the first fighter from Ireland to compete in the UFC, at UFC 93 in Dublin.
Q 05Who began coaching McGregor at Straight Blast Gym in Dublin in 2008?
John Kavanagh
John Kavanagh, founder of Straight Blast Gym Ireland, began coaching McGregor in 2008 and remained his head coach through both UFC title wins.
Q 06McGregor's 2007 amateur debut against Kieran Campbell was for which promotion?
Irish Ring of Truth
McGregor's amateur debut, on 17 February 2007 for the Irish Ring of Truth promotion in Dublin, ended in a first-round TKO of Kieran Campbell; he then turned professional with the sister Irish Cage of Truth promotion.
Q 07Whom did McGregor beat in his first professional MMA bout in March 2008?
Gary Morris
McGregor stopped Gary Morris by second-round TKO on 9 March 2008, a lightweight bout that opened his professional record at 1–0.
Q 08McGregor's first professional loss, to Artemij Sitenkov, came by which submission?
Kneebar
Kneebar submission ended the bout in round one: Artemij Sitenkov, a grappling specialist, tapped McGregor in June 2008 in what was McGregor's featherweight debut and first professional defeat.
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 featherweight champion against Dave Hill in June 2012 and lightweight champion against Ivan Buchinger on 31 December 2012, so he held both belts when the UFC signed him.
Q 12Dana White was mobbed with requests to sign McGregor while visiting which Dublin university in 2013?
Trinity College
Trinity College Dublin hosted White in February 2013 to receive a Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from its Philosophical Society; students kept urging him to sign McGregor, who debuted in the UFC that April.
Q 13Whom did McGregor knock out in his UFC debut in April 2013?
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, broke his foot eleven days before UFC 196; Nate Diaz replaced him 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
Marcus Brimage
Marcus Brimage was knocked out at 1:07 of the first round in Stockholm on 6 April 2013, earning McGregor a Knockout of the Night bonus in his UFC debut.
Q 14An MRI after his 2013 win over Max Holloway revealed McGregor had suffered what injury?
Torn ACL
Torn ACL was the diagnosis after the August 2013 Holloway decision, which he won 30–27, 30–27, 30–26 despite the damaged knee; surgery kept him out until July 2014.
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, was stopped by strikes in the first round on 19 July 2014, earning McGregor a Performance of the Night bonus.
Q 16Which referee stopped McGregor's first fight with Dustin Poirier at UFC 178?
Herb Dean
Herb Dean waved off the bout at 1:46 of the first round at UFC 178 in September 2014 after McGregor dropped Poirier; it was Poirier's first UFC defeat by knockout.
Q 17Which Irish singer performed 'The Foggy Dew' live for McGregor's UFC 189 entrance?
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor sang 'The Foggy Dew' live in the MGM Grand Garden Arena as McGregor walked out at UFC 189 on 11 July 2015, before a crowd of 16,019.
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 injury forced José Aldo out of the planned UFC 189 title fight?
Rib fracture
Rib fracture was the reported injury: Aldo withdrew in late June 2015 citing a broken rib suffered in training, just after the pair's 12-day, eight-city promotional world tour.
Q 20Against whom did McGregor coach on The Ultimate Fighter in 2015?
Urijah Faber
Urijah Faber coached opposite McGregor on The Ultimate Fighter 22 in 2015, and Faber's fighter Ryan Hall won the season's lightweight tournament.
Missing media obligations cost him the bout: he skipped a mandatory UFC 200 press conference in Las Vegas in April 2016 to stay in training camp, and the UFC pulled him from the card.
Q 24UFC 202's 1,650,000 buys broke a pay-per-view record previously held by which event?
UFC 100
UFC 100 in July 2009, headlined by Brock Lesnar against Frank Mir, had held the record with about 1.6 million buys until the Diaz rematch at UFC 202 in August 2016 edged past it.
Q 25Whom did McGregor beat at UFC 205 to become the UFC's first simultaneous two-division champion?
Eddie Alvarez
Eddie Alvarez was dropped repeatedly in the first round and finished by TKO at 3:04 of the second at Madison Square Garden on 12 November 2016, handing McGregor the lightweight belt.
Q 26Why did McGregor announce time off from the UFC after winning the lightweight belt in 2016?
To await his first child's birth
To await his first child's birth, he said after UFC 205 in November 2016 that he would step away; son Conor Jr. arrived in May 2017, and he next fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. that August.
Q 27McGregor's boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr. was held at which venue?
T-Mobile Arena
T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, just off the Las Vegas Strip, staged the 26 August 2017 bout; 13,094 tickets produced a gate of more than $55 million.
Q 28The Mayweather–McGregor bout was contested at which weight limit?
154 pounds
154 pounds, boxing's super welterweight limit, was the contracted weight; the Nevada commission granted a one-off exception letting the pair use 8 oz gloves rather than the 10 oz usual at that weight.
Q 29What was McGregor's guaranteed purse for the Mayweather fight?
$30 million
$30 million was the purse the Nevada commission disclosed for McGregor, against $100 million for Mayweather; both fighters' total earnings rose far higher once pay-per-view revenue was shared.
Q 30What specially created prize did McGregor and Mayweather box for in 2017?
WBC Money Belt
WBC Money Belt, a one-off prize set with thousands of diamonds, sapphires and emeralds on alligator leather, was created by the World Boxing Council for the bout and went to Mayweather.