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For more from the 2016 Body Issue, check out espn.com/bodyissue! And pick up a copy on newsstands starting July 8.Retiring early? Not so much. MMA fighter Conor McGregor is definitely still swinging. On the set of his Body Issue photo shoot in May, McGregor sat down with Kenny Mayne and talked about getting into the ring with Floyd Mayweather, fighting hungry and his strong Irish genes.I dreamt every day of making it as a fighter, every damn day. Sitting on in the car park, on my lunch break, early mornings. I always visualized climbing the ladder of the fight game and reaching the pinnacle.My unpredictability is what separates me. I move in many ways. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what hes doing. Hes focusing on what youre doing and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.Verbal warfare is another form of warfare, so I look to engage in that 100 percent. Its just part of the game. Its part of the business. You beat him verbally, you beat him mentally and then finally you beat him physically. Thats the three ways to beat a man.If I only had to focus on boxing, hell, Id be neck and neck with Floyd right now. Im in the game of spinning plates. Im spinning a boxing plate. Im spinning a taekwondo plate. Im spinning a jiujitsu plate. Im spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. Im spinning a karate plate. There are so many spinning plates in this game. If I was to put all of them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.Many people who practice in only one discipline of fighting are lying to themselves. You cant fight fully. Its limited. Its not the full circle. Youre afraid of everything else. Youre just doing this one single thing. But we practice in everything.I am forever, forever learning. I think in the last fight [against Nate Diaz in March], I mismanaged my weight. I was working with my nutritionist for the lightweight title fight to make 155 pounds. I was on track. Nine days out from the fight, Im in phenomenal condition, and then the weight got changed [to 170] and all of a sudden Im 10 pounds below and Im like, I dont need this diet because I need to eat up to the weight. So I threw that out. I disengaged from that. I started eating two steaks a day, two breakfasts. Id have a coffee and some cookies with that, please, also. Id be in the gym six to eight hours on fight week. Ive got bags of energy. I can do this all day. But it came back and bit me in the ass. My body went into shock. I overtrained and then mismanaged the weight, and it came back to bite me on the ass.When Im cutting weight, I kind of baby myself to preserve energy to make the weight and to be energetic in the fight. But this fight I didnt even have to make weight. In fact, I was stuffing my face. I was heavier around the midsection. I wasnt as lean as I usually am, so my performance was hindered. My gas tank gave in. I had to take a very honest look at what I was doing with my preparation, so I have done that. Ive brought in people specifically to monitor my cardiovascular. Im doing something a little bit differently. So everything is a lesson and everything is a blessing.I entered that last fight full. I was full in every sense. My plate was full, my belly was full. Thats not why we fight. We originally fight for food, to eat. We fight hungry. The birth of fighting is to eat. So Im happy with the lessons learned. I feel like my gut has been emptied again, like I am hungry again.There aint many people going up 25 pounds to fight on the drop of a hat, in nine days. I rocked up to 170 [for the Diaz fight in March]. Never fought at 170 in my life. I rocked up no problem. I slapped the head off of him for nine minutes of that fight. Look at his face. I busted him up. With the correct tank, the correct approach, Im going to cakewalk this next one if we can get to that point.When the tank goes, its done. When you go past that line, no amount of skill can save you. There is no coming back from it in a fight.I have a sweet tooth. But my nutrition is another thing that Ive become obsessed with lately. Right now Im following a strict nutrition plan, and I eat on the clock. My body is feeling good. Its not depleting me, because again, if I get the fight Im looking for, it will still be up a weight. Its still the challenge Im seeking.It was quiet during the struggle. Everything else is noise. I find that the struggle is peaceful and beautifully quiet. Whereas everyone wants to be involved in success, very, very few want to be involved in the struggle. So Im enjoying the quiet and the peace in the struggle right now.This is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business. And Im cool with that.You grow up where Im from, you must learn how to defend yourself as a young man. I was no different. I got into it to learn how to fight, and thats why I walked into my first combat gym.Im just a kid that defied the odds. Im just a kid that ignored the doubt. Im just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and Im going to continue to go all the way.The left paw has done me well over the years. Im not a scientist, Im a martial artist. I did do one of those sport science things where they measured the time and my reaction. But all of that really means nothing in there. I think timing is the key -- surprise and timing. If you can master those two, you dont necessarily need brute force to put a man down. You place the correct shot at the correct time, you will put a man down.Right now, Im focusing on my skills, because the skills is what pays the bills. Im also focused on my cardiovascular training. 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Davis responded to his selection earlier in the day as a Western Conference All-Star with 26 points and 10 rebounds, and the New Orleans Pelicans overcame a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves 98-91 on Friday night. As the latest chapter in the BCCIs entanglements with the Supreme Court continued to unfold, three doomsday scenarios were put out into the world as to what would happen if the Lodha committees recommendations were pushed through:The New Zealand team would go home and Indian cricket would be humiliated.The Ranji Trophy would be cancelled and Indian cricket would collapse.The India team would pull out of world events and naturally world cricket would implode.As of now, Kane Williamson and his men are still around for the ODI series starting Sunday, the Ranji Trophy made its quiet seasonal progress despite impending disaster, and when last heard, the BCCI was still in active engagement with the ICC. The boards officials at the ICCs Cape Town meetings are on a mission, it is reported, to challenge comrade-turned current bête noire, ICC chairman Shashank Manohar.What were the triple threats of impending cricketing apocalypse meant to do? Get the public out onto the streets protesting against judicial overreach, showing their support for the BCCI and burning a few effigies? While it is said that often judges enjoy playing to the gallery with amusing observations, and that their orders are full of references to mighty minds through history, it is safe to assume that public approval or disapproval does not register on their radar.The BCCIs latest move was to inform the Supreme Court, that apart from their own response to the recommendation - hardly conciliatory - it had proved hard to persuade their members, i.e. the state associations to agree to the proposed changes to their individual associations.Withholding funding, the BCCIs counsel Kapil Sibal argued, was not an option, because it would put the domestic season in jeopardy. Chief Justice TS Thakur replied, Season or no season… we dont care about your season. Transparency and fairness must be there. Everyone needs to co-operate with the Lodha panel.We dont care about your season is shiver-me-timbers stuff for Indian cricket. Chief Justice Thakur has no doubt heard many lawyers make many such apocalyptic prophecies, either as diversionary or delaying tactics, and his response carried a brutal message of its own.The truth is that the state associations in Indian cricket do not function hand to mouth: in the post-IPL world, 25 state associations (excluding Services, Railways, All India Universities, Cricket Club of India and National Cricket Club), have each received between Rs 25 and 30 crores every year. With the accumulated corpus growing over the last seven seasons, most of them could run their cricket for three or four seasons without a sneeze.The few associations that are cash-strapped have had their BCCI funding held back due to a failure to audit their accounts or supply the ruling body with satisfactory balance sheets. Like the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association or Goa Cricket Association, and the perpetually shambolic Delhi and Districts Cricket Association, which has not held elections for the last three years. The death of the Indian domestic season was therefore offered to the judge like a trial balloon, and it was duly shot down with the response indicating the direction the court was willing to take.The bogey of recalcitrant associations is not unfounded, but it does not include the entire house. Vidarbha and Tripura have adopted the Lodha recommendations and there is a possibility that a couple of states are contemplating the same but checking the climate before doing so.The BCCIs argument that they could adopt several Lodha recommendations if only the states acquiesced struck a bum note. The boards four most senior office-bearers - president Anurag Thakur, secretary Ajay Shirke, joint secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry - are key functionaries in their state associations - Thakur, Shirke and Choudhary are presidents of Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkhand respectively, while Chaudhry is secretary of Haryana cricket.Inn a world of utopian super-governance, the best way to get state associations to start falling in line would be to have these four key office-bearers issue directives to their associations.dddddddddddd Except, one of the key Lodha recommendations is that no official should hold roles in both the BCCI and state associations at the same time. Effectively, asking them to push their state associations to approach the Lodha recommendations with an open mind is to expect four very powerful men - a member of parliament, a successful businessman, a retired senior police officer, and a lawyer from an influential political family - to sack themselves. Not going to happen. The four have played significant roles in their state associations. There are new top-quality venues in each of their four states, and they must be given credit for their part in the creation and development of them. They have used their imagination, wealth and influence in cricket to visible effect. Naturally any challenge to their position will only be resisted.It is also now being circulated that it would be impossible to replace the top office-bearers of the BCCI with equally capable stand-ins. To turn the many admirable qualities of the top officials in Indian cricket through history into proof of their cast-iron indispensability is both unsuccessful use of spin and a limited understanding of the dynamics of power.At the level of policy, tours, IPL contracts, relations with the ICC and so on, the BCCI currently is run by a very small group - the top four-office bearers, in this case, with the help of a few political heavyweights in nebulous vice-presidential roles. The BCCIs daily cricketing operations are carried out by a number of largely anonymous salaried individuals who keep the machine moving, without the direct involvement or supervision of the office-bearers.If Jagmohan Dalmiya pulled in the money and kept the BCCI running through his office in Kolkata, with a capable secretary, a typewriter and a fax machine, the post-2005 era of N Srinivasan and Lalit Modi was marked by a retention of centralised power but a decentralisation of operations. The post-Srinivasan era, under Shashank Manohar at first, and now Thakur, has witnessed a greater flow of information, and the arrival of a CEO and an ombudsman - the latter being the result of the courts involvement and interest in the BCCIs functioning.Were the Lodha panel recommendations to be pushed through, what possible disaster could wreck the BCCI, and Indian and world cricket? No one in Indian cricket can possibly be quoted on this subject, so lets go with this neutral assessment: it would cause some disruption at the top, two or three weeks of uncertainty, a period of adjustment, and then a new set of officials would step in. All the while, a well-functioning machine will keep moving, and Tests, ODIs and first-class games will continue to be played.In November 2014, when the Supreme Court was told of the enormous role played in the development of Indian cricket by the former BCCI president Srinivasan, its response was, Recognition comes when one lakh [100,000] people turn up at Eden Gardens to watch a match. That recognition is not because of Srinivasan. The benefit of doubt must go to the game rather than the individual.That position has not changed. The establishment of a more compact governance structure in Indian cricket is of greater priority to the court than its impact on those currently wielding authority. Between then and now, the individuals in charge at the BCCI have changed but their responses to ceding power have been identical. And so its back to another round of the courts, and no doubt to another round of filibustering by the BCCIs counsel.No matter what is offered in public however, the sky in Indian cricket, it must be said, is not about to fall. ' ' '