Conor McGregor faces off with Donald Cerrone.
- Conor McGregor and Donald Cerrone hit the scales on Friday ahead of their UFC 246 fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday.
- Both men weighed in at 170 pounds, which is bang on the welterweight limit.
- McGregor appeared strong on the scales, a far cry from how gaunt he looked when he last weighed in as a featherweight in a 2015 match against Jose Aldo.
- The difference in size in the photographs below lays bare how drastic McGregor's bodily change has been through the years.
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LAS VEGAS - Two photographs highlight how Conor McGregor's body has drastically changed through the years as a UFC athlete.
The Irish striker, who fights Donald Cerrone on Saturday in a nontitle welterweight bout at UFC 246 in the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, weighed in at the welterweight limit of 170 pounds at the Park MGM on Friday - the same weight as Cerrone, who hit the scales earlier.
McGregor looked strong on the scales, a stark contrast to how gaunt he appeared when he made weight as a featherweight in 2015.
This is what McGregor looked like on Friday:
Photo by YouTube / The MacLife
And here he is in 2015, weighing in as a featherweight for the last time in his career:
Photo by Sportsfile/Corbis/Sportsfile via Getty Images
Once McGregor defeated Jose Aldo to win the UFC featherweight championship, he jumped two divisions to fight a two-bout rivalry with Nate Diaz at welterweight, losing one and winning the other.
After that, he knocked out Eddie Alvarez in a lightweight championship fight, left UFC for two years, and returned to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov, losing a lightweight title match.
He is now back at welterweight, has previously said he wants to fight thrice in 2020, and could drop back down to lightweight in the near future.
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