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Dennis Siver on Conor McGregor loss: "If my eye hadn't swollen shut, it could have been a completely different fight"
Apr 24, 2015 - 12:50:26 PM Dennis Siver on Conor McGregor loss: "If my eye hadn't swollen shut, it could have been a completely different fight"

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"I would definitely do a rematch, because the first fight didn't go too well for me. I don't want to make excuses, but during the first round he hit me under my left eye with one of his knuckles or something, and a little muscle kind of got stuck. The result was, I had double-vision, which means that I was basically dealing with two McGregors from that point on, what a horror (laughs).

I got hit above the same eye then, and the eye was starting to swell shut. So from fighting with double-vision I went to fighting with one eye. It went all downhill from there. Fighting one-eyed against such a strong and quick opponent just doesn't make any sense. I kind of gave up in that second round. Would it have been a three-round fight, I might have continued and taken a beating for the last round, too. But it was a five rounder, and I wanted to save my health for other fights in the future... If my eye hadn't swollen shut, it could have been a completely different fight."

-Dennis Siver talks to GroundAndPound.de about his loss to Conor McGregor in January and wanting a rematch.

Penick's Analysis: Siver is unlikely to ever get a rematch with McGregor. The fight was too decisive, and he's just falling out of the mix, so I just don't see him getting another shot at that type of fight. He'll stick around in the UFC for a little while, get a few more fights, but that January matchup was the last time we'll see Siver anywhere near a main event. The same cannot be said about McGregor, and so that's just not a fight we'll wind up seeing again.