Predicting All 12 UFC Champions One Year From Now

That's right, Conor McGregor will once again be the UFC Lightweight Champion come July 2019.

To put it mildly, McGregor left a path of destruction in his wake in both the Featherweight and Lightweight divisions. The Irishman ploughed through the Featherweights before jumping up a weight class, redeeming his first UFC loss to Nate Diaz, and then smashing Eddie Alvarez to become the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight Champion. That was a year-and-a-half ago, both titles have since been vacated and won by other fighters, and McGregor is nowhere to be seen.

Khabib Nurmagomedov won the Lightweight Championship at the infamous UFC 223, where McGregor resurfaced and attacked the fighter bus, and Khabib was forced to fight fill-in Al Laquinta. All controversy aside, Nurmagomedov needs a new opponent and there're only two options: the winner of Eddie Alvarez vs. Dustin Poirier... or Conor McGregor.

The obvious fight to make is McGregor vs. Nurmagomedov. It's the fight everyone wants to see and it could very well happen at some point in the next year. Should it go down, McGregor will KO Nurmagomedov and regain his title. Khabib is a phenomenal wrestler but his stand-up is downright bad and he will feel McGregor's touch of death.