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Rafel dos Anjos has claimed Conor McGregor is "calling his own people traitors" after the Dubliner's comments during the week.

'The Notorious' sneered the Brazilian for leaving his native country to move to America at a UFC 197 press conference on Wednesday.

But dos Anjos believes the comments also mean that McGregor is calling Irish people living in the US traitors and has called on them to turn against the Irishman and support him at UFC 197 instead.

He said: "In Brazil, millions of Brazilians leave and a lot of Irish leave Ireland. These people don't deserve to be called traitors.



"I think he's calling his own people traitors and I want to call all the Irish who live in the USA to be on my side because he called them traitors. I want their support on March 5th."

He added: "The guy thinks just because he is dressed nice and drives nice cars that he has class, but he's classless, he's a low-life.

"I knew he was going to talk over me and take my place, that's his style. But I'm going to talk louder on March 5th."I knew he was going to try to use all his weapons to make me get mad but I kept calm. He has no respect, he doesn't know the word, it doesn't exist for him."

At UFC 197, McGregor will be looking to replicate a previous achievement that he accomplished in Cage Warriors, where he held both featherweight and lightweight belts at the same time.

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This isn't something that impresses Dos Anjos and he reiterated that the UFC is a totally different level of competition.

He told The Daily Mail: "He thinks just because he won two divisions in a small show in Ireland he will do the same thing in the UFC.

"No disrespect but the UFC is the biggest competition in the world, it's not easy to win two belts. I fought better guys, I fought bigger guys, smaller guys and faster guys before."



Despite McGregor's verbal lashing earlier in the week, Dos Anjos is still confident that at UFC 197 he will be the one with hand raised when it is all said and done.

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He added: "I think Conor is just one more guy that I'm going to put my hands on and I'm going to be victorious for sure."