UFC News · Aug 15, 2016
UFC's first Irish fighter shares his story
When it was all said and done, all Tom Egan could do is smile.
More than five years after he became the first Ireland native to compete in the UFC, he was back in Dublin, back in the O2 Arena, and watching his teammates win on the biggest night in Irish MMA history. He will never forget July 19, 2014.
“I was nothing but happy,” Egan said. “I was so happy and so emotional for all those guys for everything that they had done. I wasn’t thinking of anything other than pure support, pure love and pure happiness for every one of them. I was almost crying when Cathal Pendred got his win, and of course, Conor (McGregor) coming out, I was extremely proud.”