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Conor McGregor is at it again.

Just over a month removed from his UFC 194 knockout over Jose Aldo to claim the featherweight championship, McGregor was back to talking smack in ways only the 27-year-old Irishman can.

McGregor will move up a weight division and challenge lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos for his belt on March 5 at UFC 197. In the first official press conference for the event, McGregor berated dos Anjos, a native Brazilian, for abandoning his country and raising his children in the United States.

As a follow up, McGregor revealed that he plans to behead dos Anjos in the fight. He pushed the boundaries a bit -- even by his own standards -- in his comments that followed.

For his part, dos Anjos didn't back down.

"I want to finish him. I want to submit him, actually," dos Anjos explained. "Sometimes you knock someone out and the way they go down isn't nice, but when you submit someone … I want to make him quit, I want him asking me to stop."

So both opponents in the "champion vs. champion" fight essentially want to destroy the other? Yeah, that's par for the course.

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