Conor McGregor has blasted fans for criticising his move to fight UFC veteran Donald Cerrone earlier this year.
The Notorious one needed just 40 seconds to get the job done against the American at UFC 246 in January as he dismantled the veteran in his return to the Octagon.
But in an recent interview, McGregor has slammed fans who criticised his choice of opponent.
In a scathing response to his critics, McGregor claimed that vocal fans were projecting their 'insecurities' through the criticism of the Cerrone fight.
"You know you go online and you'll see some guy like 'Hey, you only f*****g fought Cerrone' like imagine some guy saying that about a legend," McGregor told Parimatch.
"The way the fans kind of try to downplay who you fought or something or say 'You haven't fought this guy yet' or you ain't done that.
"If you think of it like a mirror, that person who's writing this or saying this, he himself is projecting his own insecurities because that person wouldn't have fought anyone on planet Earth.
"So he's saying, 'You ain't doing this, you ain't doing that' when really it's in his own thoughts that he ain't done this or ain't done that on any scale, so it's like a mirror.
"You know as long as your own self is right, everything else around you will become right. And that's it."
