A sign of MMA's growing popularity in Ireland was the huge crowd at the Sports Summit for Cathal Pendred.
He has won his first two UFC fights and is aiming to get a 3 - 0 record and during his talk at the Dublin Web Summit, he hinted that his next fight will be in the near future - and that MMA fans will have a good idea who his next opponent is.
Pendred hints the fight will be in Boston #ntfm
— Raf Diallo (@Raftastico) November 5, 2014
Afterwords, I caught up with him to talk UFC's rise and the time he rescued a baby dolphin in Co Clare earlier this year...
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