McGregor: 'It's not actually the 145-pound division, it's the McGregor division'

Conor McGregor isn't going to make the same mistakes as Cat Zingano.

Zingano rushed into her title bout with Ronda Rousey at UFC 184, sprinting across the cage to throw a flying knee before almost immediately being caught in a slick, straight armbar. 

"Alpha" only lasted 14 seconds, a dubious feat that likely won't be replicated when McGregor gets a title shot of his own against Jose Aldo at UFC 189 in July.

"This is me, I am at home here," McGregor told MMAFighting.com's Ariel Helwani. "When I step in there and I make that walk it's almost like a sigh of relief. Now it's happening. All of the other stuff ... f-ck all the other stuff. I don't care about the other stuff. What I do it all for is for this moment, and I am in no hurry. I want to embrace every bit of it."  

The brash Irishman has become one of the most bankable stars in the promotion, and in a rarity for a UFC pay-per-view, the featherweight title bout between McGregor and Aldo is set to be the main event ahead of a welterweight title clash between Robbie Lawler and Rory MacDonald.

Now we're ahead of the 170-pound division. The 170-pound division used to be the division, and now it's the 145-pound division. It's not actually the 145-pound division, it's the 'McGregor division'. Wherever I go will be ahead of whoever is on the card. It's that simple.

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I am up there as one of the - if not the -  biggest fighter in the game.

UFC 189 takes place on July 11 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev.