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UFC 257’s Conor McGregor would like to fight Al Iaquinta ‘at some stage’

Conor McGregor wasn’t kidding when he said he wants to run through every single contender in the UFC lightweight division.

‘The Notorious’ made a shock call out of No. 10-ranked lightweight Al Iaquinta in response to ‘Raging Al’s’ derogatory comments about McGregor’s ‘cringey’ new friendship with Dustin Poirier.

“I’d like to fight Al Iaquinta at some stage,” McGregor said in an interview with Ariel Helwani ahead of his rematch with Poirier next weekend (h/t Jordan Ellis of Low Kick MMA). “I’d like to fight Al. I don’t know I’d just like to fight him.