Conor McGregor

The pure facts

I'm not a fan of McGregor nor do I condone what he does, but from a marketing standpoint he certainty knows how to lean into the controversial "villain" role. As a person, what he said about Dustin's wife and wanting to kill them in their sleep is abhorrent. But if all of it was done to drum up their rivalry, McGregor is playing his cards right. It's pretty obvious that he's lost a couple steps and his UFC career is in it's twilights. Yet, it seems like he's all but penciled in a rematch with Proirier (might even be a title fight if Dustin beats Charles Oliveira). His trash-talking and out of the octagon antics are annoying, but it draws in crowds. His opponents may hate him, respectfully so, but a match against McGregor is arguably must-watch PPV and a larger purse. At the end of the day, they all want the money.

Son, I been an MMA fan since Fedor and Cro Cop were in their prime. McGregor has increased the popularity of the UFC, sure. But he's still a shitstain of a human being. Chuck Liddell retired from fighting to sit quietly in a corner sniffing coke. Silva is famously clowny inside of the ring but doesn't say shit outside of it. Suga is washed but again, doesn't do anything newsworthy.

Conor McGregor was literally making death threats and saying that Dustin's wife was in his DMs. How trashy can you get?

The reason no one respects McGregor is because he is a sore loser cry-baby.

the difference is this - being a sore loser and throwing temper tantrums. chuck & tito were great at shit talking, as were DC and Jones but it never crossed the lines conor crossed. conor's outside behavior is indicative of what kind of person he is. talking shit is one thing, throwing dollies and continuing to bitch after getting handily beat (one judge scored it a 10-8 round) just means you're a sore loser with more money than sense

No one is tarnishing his name, he's done that himself by continuously disrespecting his opponents to a degree far beyond fun trash talk. He's lost every fight except the one with Cowboy for the last 4-5 years (and Cowboy's lost his last 6 I think?). He is a shell of his former self, devoured by his own pride and unable to learn from his defeats like a true champion. Plus the guy literally threatened Dustin and his wife say he was going to kill them in their sleep while he was laying on the ground after the fight. I sincerely hope he's permanently banned from the sport, there's more than enough talent that he will not be missed and this kind of attitude should not be permitted under any circumstances. 

This sums up the story of Conor quite nicely. 

I don't know what "running with the Hutches" means but it sounds like fantastic slang.

Is it just me or did he sound harder to understand than normal in the run up to this fight? He has an Irish accent of course but I don't remember him being full on Mickey from Snatch in the past. Possibly in past (vs Khabib, Aldo, etc) intentionally slowing down his speech so that opponents and their fans who don't speak great English could understand him better? Or just more coke than usual this time?

So he can’t speak Irish even though he can barely speak English? WTF

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Conor really embarrassed himself with this one. Sitting on your ass threatening someone's wife after losing is not a good look. And then on top of that he's saying Dustin's win was illegitimate or whatever...all 3 judges had that round 10-8 Poirier lol. Dude is just completely washed up as a fighter. 3-4 since 2016 with 2 of the 3 coming from equally washed up Eddie Alvarez and Cowboy.

And now tweeting and quickly deleting veiled threats against Poirier's kid. What a sick POS and I used to be a fan of the guy, his tweets were probably vague enough to avoid criminal charges but hopefully they'll at least get him cut from the UFC and barred from re-entering the US (I know, not gonna happen).

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