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Kamaru Usman has mocked Conor McGregor for being choked out in three weight classes after the Irishman's boast about his wins in those divisions.

The Irishman, who has become UFC world champion at featherweight and lightweight, is currently preparing for a return to the octagon later this year. And he confirmed to Mirror Fighting yesterday that he would be making that return at welterweight, where Usman is the current champion.

And McGregor is angling for a world title fight at a third weight, which would be a record-breaking feat after already becoming the first two-division world champion to hold belts simultaneously. However, to do that he would need to get past the seemingly unbeatable Usman, whose sole loss was in his second MMA fight in 2013.

The Irishman tweeted yesterday: "3 weights. 3 KO’s. Moving up. The one and only one to ever do it." But his impressive set of victories, which he completed in January 2020 with a head-kick knockout of Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone irked Usman, who hit back with a stat of his own.

Welterweight champion Usman took to Twitter in response, sharing a collage of photos which show McGregor's submission losses to Nate Diaz, Khabib