Official Conor McGregor thread (part 2). **Read warning in 1st post**

MagicIRL

If I had someone spam messaging me on my personal Facebook page, as opposed to using my 'official' Fanpage, I'd get pretty brunt with them too.

midnight city

nomadchocolate wrote: »

One interesting story was that McGregor takes note on anyone who speaks negatively against him or his team mates - McGregor recorded a message for one of the SBG lads friends wedding but McGregor stopped the video from being played after he found out that the fella getting married had given Pendred hassle over Twitter?

Bit hypocritical when Conor speaks negatively of lots of people.

cloudatlas

MagicIRL wrote: »

If I had someone spam messaging me on my personal Facebook page, as opposed to using my 'official' Fanpage, I'd get pretty brunt with them too.

why not block them? Why allow them to message you for months, go through the messages, choose the choice extracts and humiliate the person. John has said he doesn't like the crowds and the limelight. He doesn't really talk about the support, does he care?

Depp

cloudatlas wrote: »

why not block them? Why allow them to message you for months, go through the messages, choose the choice extracts and humiliate the person. John has said he doesn't like the crowds and the limelight. He doesn't really talk about the support, does he care?

calling a guy out does a lot more to discourage future offenders than simply blocking a guy

CatFromHue

a guy in Kavanagh's situation really should have his personal facebook page not open to the public.

Depp

CatFromHue wrote: »

a guy in Kavanagh's situation really should have his personal facebook page not open to the public.

possibly, but whether he has his fb private or not is for him to decide, not randomers on boards

CatFromHue

well if he leaves it open to the public he should accept that randomers online will contact him through it.

LollipopJimmy

New one up now. To be fair, the ones John decides to publish are usually deserving of public ridicule.

wonderfullife

cloudatlas wrote: »

why not block them? Why allow them to message you for months, go through the messages, choose the choice extracts and humiliate the person. John has said he doesn't like the crowds and the limelight. He doesn't really talk about the support, does he care?

Depp wrote: »

calling a guy out does a lot more to discourage future offenders than simply blocking a guy

The one that really turned me off this segment was February 10th this year.

This is the exact transcript:

Fan:

July 12, 2015: "well done John well deserved you have done this country proud "

(Ignored.)

Fan:

Feb 10th 2016: "Who would win in a fight between you and Andy Ryan?"

Kav: "are you 5 years old?"

Fan: "harsh. Is that one of those questions you'd rather not answer so i'll insult the intelligence of the person instead?"

Kav: "congratulations, you're mid-week mental message of the week".


He then proceeds to post the full screenshot of the conversation, including his full name, which gets 1000 likes and 20 odd comments taking the p1ss out of the fella.

What in Gods name is the point of that?

Especially when these are the very same people he should be hoping will buy his book or walk in and join his gym!!

What's the point in making a fool of people for sh1ts and giggles?


Anyway i'll shake my head and move on.

Have we any actual Conor-related news happening today? Any phantom flash KO's in training? :rolleyes:

wonderfullife

Mousasi backtracking today......cough.....

"I think the fame got to his head. If you put a tiger and a gorilla and your name on your chest and belly, you're retarded. Come on. That's not normal behavior.

"The guy's full of himself. He can go fcuk himself."

:pac:

wonderfullife

Link to Gegards latest comments:

https://soundcloud.com/fightsociety/stephen-wonderboy-thompson-and-gegard-mousasi

Also called McGregor a "cry-baby".

Saipanne

wonderfullife wrote: »

Mousasi backtracking today......cough.....




:pac:

And yet there was pages of debate on this non subject.

wonderfullife

Saipanne wrote: »

And yet there was pages of debate on this non subject.

yep and he's not backtracking that was sarcasm obviously. He's going after Conor even more so.

cloudatlas

Depp wrote: »

calling a guy out does a lot more to discourage future offenders than simply blocking a guy

Blocking takes 2 seconds, rather than spending 15 minutes going through msgs so you can curate and abusive post. He is in the limelight, people are going to contact him, fact.

Saipanne

wonderfullife wrote: »

yep and he's not backtracking that was sarcasm obviously. He's going after Conor even more so.

Just yet another fighter looking for some reflected spotlight. Non subject.

wonderfullife

Saipanne wrote: »

Just yet another fighter looking for some reflected spotlight. Non subject.

I really like Gegard he's hilarious. It's a good interview. Maybe it's his accent.

Another quote from the interview:

"he puts a tiger and a gorilla on him and all of a sudden he thinks he's a heavyweight? He barely beat Nate Diaz at 170 and he thinks he can take me at 185? He's over-confident. Man-to-man alone he won't talk to me like that. I don't know what the fcuk he's thinking."

Saipanne

wonderfullife wrote: »

I really like Gegard he's hilarious. It's a good interview. Maybe it's his accent.

Another quote from the interview:

"he puts a tiger and a gorilla on him and all of a sudden he thinks he's a heavyweight? He barely beat Nate Diaz at 170 and he thinks he can take me at 185? He's over-confident. Man-to-man alone he won't talk to me like that. I don't know what the fcuk he's thinking."

Riveting stuff.

wonderfullife

Saipanne wrote: »

Riveting stuff.

:rolleyes: Have ya got any other inspirational Conor McGregor related stuff to discuss today in here? :pac:

Ush1

wonderfullife wrote: »

I really like Gegard he's hilarious. It's a good interview. Maybe it's his accent.

Another quote from the interview:

"he puts a tiger and a gorilla on him and all of a sudden he thinks he's a heavyweight? He barely beat Nate Diaz at 170 and he thinks he can take me at 185? He's over-confident. Man-to-man alone he won't talk to me like that. I don't know what the fcuk he's thinking."

I used to like him but I think this all smacks of desperation a little.
Trying to pick a fight with the featherweight champion?:rolleyes:

wonderfullife

Ush1 wrote: »

I used to like him but I think this all smacks of desperation a little.
Trying to pick a fight with the featherweight champion?:rolleyes:

Well...depends who you believe but if Gegard to be believed Conor tried to pick a fight with him messaging him randomly out of the blue with "philosophical wisdom" like "a knife weighs less than 1lb it can cut from ear to ear". :pac:

I doubt Conor is losing any sleep over "another bum" trying to get headlines off his name.

It might work out in his favour. He mentioned in the interview they're considering giving him Shogun Rua at Light Heavyweight soon. He didn't say specifically New York but it might get him on the Toronto card.

Ush1

wonderfullife wrote: »

Well...depends who you believe but if Gegard to be believed Conor tried to pick a fight with him messaging him randomly out of the blue with "philosophical wisdom" like "a knife weighs less than 1lb it can cut from ear to ear". :pac:

I doubt Conor is losing any sleep over "another bum" trying to get headlines off his name.

It might work out in his favour. He mentioned in the interview they're considering giving him Shogun Rua at Light Heavyweight soon. He didn't say specifically New York but it might get him on the Toronto card.

If Conor did message him, it wasn't out of the blue. Mousasi started criticising him at the post fight presser of UFC 204 if I'm correct. Doesn't make sense that Conor would just DM him for nothing.

The other part of it that makes Mousasi look stupid is that he didn't even see the message himself and also revealed his twitter account is not used by him, it's his manager. I think Mousasi has either been lied to or is a liar, otherwise he should post a screenshot of the DM.

Same as his asking for the Anderson Silva fight, asking to fight Shogun at LHW is even more irrelevant.

I can see what he's doing though, I think he's disillusioned with not getting paid as much as other fighters so he's trying to force himself to talk thrash to get more attention. It unfortunately doesn't suit or come naturally to some people like it does to Conor.

wonderfullife

Ush1 wrote: »

If Conor did message him, it wasn't out of the blue. Mousasi started criticising him at the post fight presser of UFC 204 if I'm correct. Doesn't make sense that Conor would just DM him for nothing.

The other part of it that makes Mousasi look stupid is that he didn't even see the message himself and also revealed his twitter account is not used by him, it's his manager. I think Mousasi has either been lied to or is a liar, otherwise he should post a screenshot of the DM.

Same as his asking for the Anderson Silva fight, asking to fight Shogun at LHW is even more irrelevant.

I can see what he's doing though, I think he's disillusioned with not getting paid as much as other fighters so he's trying to force himself to talk thrash to get more attention. It unfortunately doesn't suit or come naturally to some people like it does to Conor.

100% agree he has realised being a great fighter is not enough to get paid well. Demetrious Johnson is exhibit A. Amazing fighter but paid poorly and draws very poorly. Very rarely breaks 200,000 PPV buys.

Think he's realised he has to start piping up a bit.

Just a slight correction - he didn't ask for Shogun Rua.

He asked for a fight soon. Weidman, Romero, Jacare, Rockhold are all booked up and Anderson is filming a movie.

He asked for Uriah Hall to avenge the defeat and offered in the interview to make it a winner-take-all purse match.

He just said that the UFC are talking about giving him Shogun Rua at Light Heavy if he doesn't want to wait for his preferred match-up.

Useful.Idiot

Ush1 wrote: »

I can see what he's doing though, I think he's disillusioned with not getting paid as much as other fighters so he's trying to force himself to talk thrash to get more attention. It unfortunately doesn't suit or come naturally to some people like it does to Conor.

Yep that seems exactly like what's he's doing. Even if Conor did message him he's inflating the whole story just to get some headlines.

Great fighter though. Maybe because he's such a veteran he sees more value than us in these fights with legends who are well past their heyday. It would be cool to see him fight whichever winner in the "MW tournament" doesn't get a title shot.

wonderfullife

Dillon Danis came out with a pearler of a strange comment yesterday in an interview:

He was asked will 155lbs suit Conor, reply =

"Absolutely, i think to be honest 145, 155, 170 and 185 are all weight classes he would do well at".

:rolleyes:

Anybody want to throw out any name in the top 15 at Middleweight Conor could beat if he packed on some muscle?

DrPhilG

If Mousasi had been sent messages from Conor he'd have taken screen shots and posted them.

Depp

wonderfullife wrote: »

Dillon Danis came out with a pearler of a strange comment yesterday in an interview:

He was asked will 155lbs suit Conor, reply =

"Absolutely, i think to be honest 145, 155, 170 and 185 are all weight classes he would do well at".

:rolleyes:

Anybody want to throw out any name in the top 15 at Middleweight Conor could beat if he packed on some muscle?

any of them

Outlaw Pete

I would say the predictable backtracking by Mousasi is because the UFC got involved.

There is no way they would have sat back and said nothing to either fighter after one of them accuses the other of threatening them with a knife. That's a pretty serious accusation and so they will have had no option but to contact them.

It's not something they would want in the media either. Not good PR. These new owners are right in the middle of cleaning house and the image of the sport is crucial going forward. Having headlines that UFC fighters are saying they are gonna slit the other's throat is not something they'd appreciate.

At the end of the day he made a mountain out of a molehill. He said to Helwani that Conor was being philosophical and so knew it was just an analogy to counter his suggestion that a lighter fighter was no danger to a heavier one.

Anyway, his remarks about the tattoos was better. That's the kind of thing he should have just said to begin with.

califano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEXlnIqAtaE

nomadchocolate

That Mousassi quote is hilarious! And I think he is dead right.

Head Wreck

Whats left for Conor if he beats Eddie and relinquishes the 145 belt? Who do we think the first defence would be against?

I believe he'll win and take a few years off and pursue some other big money interests