Coaching on The Ultimate Fighter seems to have been a bit of an emotional roller coaster for interim UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.

Filming of season 22 lasted six weeks and just wrapped, but McGregor was the only constant variable prior to filming. Fellow contender Chad Mendes was origianlly paired to coach opposite McGregor, but plans shifted when featherweight champ Jose Aldo withdrew from UFC 189 in July. Mendes stepped in for Aldo, but the reality show lost a coach.

In came Team Alpha Male's Urijah Faber, out went McGregor's enthusiasm.

"They give me Urijah as a coach but they won't let me fight him," McGregor revealed in a newly released clip filmed weeks ago. "My energy was gone from it. I didn't want to do it. [The show] did not mean anything to me. But the more I think about it and seeing the fights to get into the house and just being around it, this is the life I have chosen.

"This is the life I have created. To be here and have this opportunity is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Rather than be off with it and feel like I need to get away from it, I am embracing it now."

McGregor has since been booked to face Aldo Dec. 12 at UFC 194 in Las Vegas, Nevada to unify the featherweight title, but the Irishman says he would have liked a tune-up against Faber.

"Really, it would be nice to have a fight at the end of it," said McGregor. "We could easily fit a fight in on the Dublin card in The O2[3Arena] in October. Filming wraps at the end of September, I believe[sic]. I could go in and make light work of Urijah. I could maul him inside one round and be fresh.

"Then we could do the Jose fight towards the end of the year on one of these dates that's being thrown around. They wouldn't have it so we'll just be coaches and that will be that."

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TWEETS

Fun.

Big deal or no deal?

Beef.

Let's go @TheDomin8r heal that chicken leg up so I can kick your ass already. Let's sign a contract 4 @ufc New Years card. #TheBestNeverRest — TJ Dillashaw (@TJDillashaw) August 27, 2015

.@TJDillashaw Ill be back in plenty time to school YOU "Silly Dilly"Dnt u worry.May jus send @johnDodson back up to take care my light wrk. — Dominick Cruz (@TheDomin8r) August 27, 2015

Any interest?

Nothing but respect to the man but I would love to fight @UrijahFaber I would go up to 135 for that one !!! @seanshelby @danawhite — Wilson Reis (@wilsonreis7) August 27, 2015

Be careful.

Between scenes workout! Bout to film the fight scene with @criscyborg!!! Stoked!! #FightValley... https://t.co/c37oknfyl3 — Miesha Tate (@MieshaTate) August 27, 2015

acabei de lutar com a Jabs @mieshatate vcs vão amar o filme! I just fight with jabs/You'll love it!@moviemaker4life pic.twitter.com/CYojCxZ61U — Cris Cyborg (@criscyborg) August 27, 2015

Buds.

i would met definitely not be sad about this! very good news today thanks :) https://t.co/U5hRQITdTn — Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) August 26, 2015

Happy Holidays.

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FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announced yesterday (Aug. 26 2015)

Piotr Hallman vs. Alex Oliveira at UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson

Jared Rosholt vs. Stefan Struve at UFC 193

Bartosz Fabinski vs. Hector Urbina at UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Gastelum

Valmir Lazaro vs. Michel Prazeres at UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Gastelum

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