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Donald Cerrone has no plans to badmouth Conor McGregor ahead of UFC 246 fight

Donald Cerrone also said he doesn't plan on bad mouthing Conor McGregor ahead of their UFC 246 fight.

McGregor returns to the Octagon for the first time in over 15 months when he faces Cerrone in Las Vegas in January.

He said: “I’m not going to talk badly about him. I don’t really care.

"He does his life and whatever he wants to do he can. I’m just as wild and crazy as him, but in a different way.

"The media keep asking me, ‘What do you think of the trouble he gets in?’

"The guy lives under a microscope.

"Anything he does people want to blow up and make a big deal about it. That’s his life. I would never even dig at something like that. Hell, no."

Cerrone has vowed to give UFC fans "what they want to see" when he faces McGregor, and he says he still stand up in the bout against the former two-weight world champion.

He told MMA Junkie: “I’m going to go out there and stand up with him because that’s what everyone wants to see.

“Someone said earlier that’s like fighting not to win almost, but hell no. I’d rather go down in history as having the greatest fight ever and losing than fighting to just win and winning.

"I’m going out there to put on the line and throw down and give everyone what they want to see.

"To me, that’s what I want my legacy to be. I don’t want to be the guy that took the easy way and just ran the whole fight and tried to point fight. Hell, no. I’m going to stand and try to throw down.”

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