What is Conor McGregor’s walkout music for his fight with Cowboy at UFC 246 tonight?

The Irishman always walks out to the same two songs

It’s one of the most recognisable walkout songs in combat sports.

Or rather – two of the most recognisable walkout songs.

Because Conor McGregor always walks out to the same mash-up of two very familiar pieces of music, which blend his Irish heritage with his fighting nickname.

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The first is Sinead O’Connor’s version of the famous Irish ballad ‘Foggy Dew’, a song which chronicles the Easter Uprisings of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than the British Empire.

The second is a stone cold hip-hop classic: ‘Hypnotize’ by the American rapper The Notorious B.I.G.

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Foggy Dew lyrics:

As down the glen one Easter morn

To a city fair rode I

There armed lines of marching men

In squadrons passed me by

No fife did hum, no battle drum

Did sound its dred tattoo

But the Angelus bells o'er the Liffey's swell

Rang out through the foggy dew

Right proudly high over Dublin town

They hung out the flag of war

'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky

Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar

And from the plains of Royal Meath

Strong men came hurrying through

While Brittania's huns with theirlong-range guns

Sailed in through the foggy dew

'Twas Brittania bade our wild geese go

That small nations might be free

But their lonely graves are by Suvla's waves

On the shore of the gray North Sea

But had they died by Pearse's side

Or fought with Cathal Brugha

Their names we would keep where the Fenians sleep

'Neath the shroud of the foggy dew

But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell

Rang mournfully and clear

For those who died that Eastertide

In the springing of the year

And the world did gaze in deep amaze

At those fearless men, but few

Who bore the fight that freedom's light

Might shine through the foggy dew