Official Conor McGregor thread (part 4) *Updated Warning in 1st Post Re:Boxing match

Richard tea

Ok just seen the video. Nothing crazy or mad about that. He is just enjoying himself.

CitizenFloor

Richard tea wrote: »

Ok just seen the video. Nothing crazy or mad about that. He is just enjoying himself.

Exactly. Some of the other rumors may be true. Some of crap he has done recently is ridiculous....but that video is harmless.

14murphy

CitizenFloor wrote: »

Exactly. Some of the other rumors may be true. Some of crap he has done recently is ridiculous....but that video is harmless.

I've seen worse by every other Irish man who went to Vegas following Conors fights. Myself included.

Gamebred

bmcc10 wrote: »

Suit him better to go have bit of loyalty to his gf and new born child

Didnt know you had to be home 24/7 because you've a kid and bird, news to me.

The Nal

Some of the commemts on here are no different to comments under a Kardashian story on the Daily Fail.

Lukker-

The Nal wrote: »

Some of the commemts on here are no different to comments under a Kardashian story on the Daily Fail.

Who has a nicer bum, Kim or Conor?

hewhoscares

Wasnt GSP a character witness for a New York drug dealer or something - dont think he washed his hands of him anyways so hardly the best example for comparison.

But yeah the evidence would point towards these brothers being not nice people.

Effects

14murphy wrote: »

However if I had a 140m in the bank it would be strip clubs

What age are you, 12?

fitzparker

bmcc10 wrote: »

State of them too brothers pair of weasels.

the gear on them to the fashion awards.. straight out of unique, or that closing down shop on parnell street that was open for about 12 year

fitzparker

Effects wrote: »

What age are you, 12?

14... his name is the giveaway

wonderfullife

Gamebred wrote: »

Wonder you go on as if hes gone rogue, if you knew of him pre mma champion you'd know hes been like this all along he fights in a cage for a living he didnt sign up to be any sbg role model he signed up to beat people up for bundles of money, cant say hes forgotten himself and made new celeb mates either fair play to him sticking with his old pals even if they are scrotes has good loyalty.

What Diego Sanchez did for Isaac will not make one paper in Ireland when that's more representative of the sport as a whole in my view. Conor pictured with drug dealers living it up in a strip club - that will make the papers.

The sport was slowly gaining traction towards legitimacy here and lately every headline generated is Conor getting into hassle.

The fastest way to convince the general public once-and-for-all that MMA is a barbaric sport full of thugs and lowlifes is to be carrying on like Conor has been, trying to portray himself as some sort of Pablo Escobar type 'Don'.

He needs to get a grip. He lives in Straffan not Medellin. He's got kids in SBG and across the country looking up to him whether he wants to be in that position or not. He has a child of his own who will be looking to him in the future.

Those scumbags he's hanging out with will lose nothing if Conor messes up badly. They will crawl back under the rocks they came from.

bur

Paully D wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ufcrelated/status/938617861945339904

That is so sad, strip clubs are so depressing.

Gamebred

wonderfullife wrote: »

What Diego Sanchez did for Isaac will not make one paper in Ireland when that's more representative of the sport as a whole in my view. Conor pictured with drug dealers living it up in a strip club - that will make the papers.

The sport was slowly gaining traction towards legitimacy here and lately every headline generated is Conor getting into hassle.

The fastest way to convince the general public once-and-for-all that MMA is a barbaric sport full of thugs and lowlifes is to be carrying on like Conor has been, trying to portray himself as some sort of Pablo Escobar type 'Don'.

He needs to get a grip. He lives in Straffan not Medellin. He's got kids in SBG and across the country looking up to him whether he wants to be in that position or not. He has a child of his own who will be looking to him in the future.

Those scumbags he's hanging out with will lose nothing if Conor messes up badly. They will crawl back under the rocks they came from.

The whole ''trying to legitimize the sport'' line doesn't wash, anytime someone in mma does something bad it gets wheeled out its complete garbage talk. Its violent entertainment it wont ever be as big as other sports ahead of it.

Let the parents of these kids that look up to him deal with them its not his job to portray some fake image hes being himself fair play to him not hiding anything some people like a good time hes earned it 5 times over with the grinding hes done the last 10 years get off his case hes got one driving fine and all of a sudden hes lost the plot pmsl.

wonderfullife

Gamebred wrote: »

The whole ''trying to legitimize the sport'' line doesn't wash, anytime someone in mma does something bad it gets wheeled out its complete garbage talk. Its violent entertainment it wont ever be as big as other sports ahead of it.

There's no reason MMA can't reach the level of legitimacy of other combat sports. Amateur MMA or BJJ are still outside prospects for an Olympics spot in the next 20 years. There's no reason the sport shouldn't hope to go down a path towards legitimacy, governing bodies, sanctioning bodies, Sport Council funding like other niche sports have.

Legitimacy doesn't equal popularity. MMA will never be as big as football, GAA or rugby but it doesn't have to be as big to be as legitimate.

For the record I went on similar rants when Mick Conlan and Paddy Barnes signed for that racket in Marbella. It's not a Conor thing. It's a "I don't think glorifying drug dealers is a good idea" thing.

Gamebred

wonderfullife wrote: »

There's no reason MMA can't reach the level of legitimacy of other combat sports. Amateur MMA or BJJ are still outside prospects for an Olympics spot in the next 20 years. There's no reason the sport shouldn't hope to go down a path towards legitimacy, governing bodies, sanctioning bodies, Sport Council funding like other niche sports have.

Legitimacy doesn't equal popularity. MMA will never be as big as football, GAA or rugby but it doesn't have to be as big to be as legitimate.

For the record I went on similar rants when Mick Conlan and Paddy Barnes signed for that racket in Marbella. It's not a Conor thing. It's a "I don't think glorifying drug dealers is a good idea" thing.

How is he glorifying drug dealers? hes posted pictures with friends that have done stuff in the past thats a stretch to say hes glorifying anything they've done imo.

I know one of them in particular hes no escobar small time cling on, I notice he appears to of ditched the other crumlin boys for these other pair and Charlie so it wont be long till hes another crew with him probably.

GiftofGab

glenfieldman wrote: »

Getting back to his London trip,
You should check out his mate AM Instagram of the strip club last night

Who's AM?

Paully D

Paully D wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ufcrelated/status/938617861945339904

those saggy-arsed-strippers are pretty much on the same level (or being generous marginally above) as the escorts from the Kilkenny GAA team shenanigans.

Low rent.

14murphy

Effects wrote: »

What age are you, 12?

No I’m an adult. What are you a prude ?

jcd5971

wonderfullife wrote:

He needs to get a grip. He lives in Straffan not Medellin. He's got kids in SBG and across the country looking up to him whether he wants to be in that position or not. He has a child of his own who will be looking to him in the future.

I think he's been a prat lately, and I think he's a great fighter.
I think he should be stripped if he hasn't defended by March.

I'm not a fan boy or a hater of the man either way but this kids looking up to him and be a role model stuff is nonsense.

He's not a role model he's a cage fighter anyone looking upto him as one is a fool, he got to where he is on his own merit he owes the country nothing, he had no government subsidy to train no Olympic facilities nothing.

He has stuck by for better or worse (worse in my opinion) the people who he came up with and helped him get where he is today, that's who he owes anything to.

What have the general people ever done for him that they now demand he be a role model.

I'd agree with a lot of your sentiments on some subjects wonder but not this one.

The sense of entitlement from people these days is sickening.

pgj2015

state of them fools with him in the strip club in their track suits, have they never heard of a pair of jeans and a shirt maybe, no wonder the bouncer didn't wanna let them in. mcgregor would want to wake up, so you lost to floyd, so what, get over it and move on. what happened to "no one gets in and no one gets out"? id say rita ora will still be around if he losses all his money. hanging around with gimps like lewis hamilton and Donatella Versace, talk about a sell out.

bmcc10

bmcc10 wrote: »

Suit him better to go have bit of loyalty to his gf and new born child

How can you comment on that? Maybe him and Dee have an arragnement? maybe they are swingers? you dont know their relationship, so why talk sh1te about it?

JohnMc1

jcd5971 wrote: »

I think he's been a prat lately, and I think he's a great fighter.
I think he should be stripped if he hasn't defended by March.

I'm not a fan boy or a hater of the man either way but this kids looking up to him and be a role model stuff is nonsense.

He's not a role model he's a cage fighter anyone looking upto him as one is a fool, he got to where he is on his own merit he owes the country nothing, he had no government subsidy to train no Olympic facilities nothing.

He has stuck by for better or worse (worse in my opinion) the people who he came up with and helped him get where he is today, that's who he owes anything to.

What have the general people ever done for him that they now demand he be a role model.

I'd agree with a lot of your sentiments on some subjects wonder but not this one.

The sense of entitlement from people these days is sickening.

In fairness in his "apology" for the Bellator incident he did say he needed to be a better role model for kids. So holding accountable to that is fair game.

Bunny Colvin

Deleted User wrote: »

How can you comment on that? Maybe him and Dee have an arragnement? maybe they are swingers? you dont know their relationship, so why talk sh1te about it?

That's reaching now in fairness!

wonderfullife

jcd5971 wrote: »

I'm not a fan boy or a hater of the man either way but this kids looking up to him and be a role model stuff is nonsense.

"As a multiple weight UFC champion, executive producer, role model and public figure, I must hold myself to a higher standard." (Conor's statement on the Bellator incident)

It's literally Conor himself who views himself as a role model. If that's the case and he recognizes he's a public figure people look up to, then he needs to follow his own advice and start acting like one.

Take Nate Kelly as an example. He has a very bright future in martial arts, he's been doing well in kickboxing and BJJ in the under-11's, under-9 sort of age brackets in the last few years and he represents SBG with pride. He worships the ground Conor walks on and mimics him.

That's not a controversial point or speculation, there are plenty of interviews with Nate where he literally says Conor is his hero and I'd be willing to suggest most of the children taking up the sport in this country idolise him too.

I don't think it's asking a whole lot for Conor to keep the rougher side of his life - the drugs, his friendship with dealers etc - to himself. What would have been the problem with going to London, going on a mad one, doing all the coke, pills and strippers he wants, and just not tagging the drug dealers he brought with him?

I'm certain there's tons of high profile athletes who are good pals with drug dealers and do loads of coke but you never hear about it because they don't try to glorify the lifestyle. I had similar problems when he was tagging Johnny Dargan in a photo at the gym not even a month after Dargan killed that good samaritan who tried to intervene in a row.

TL;DR -

Conor: "I'm a role model I must do better"
Also Conor: Check me out I'm in a strip club with a load of drug dealers!

He needs to make up his mind what he wants to be. If he wants to be a glorified gangster strolling around Dublin with scrotes that's fine. If he wants to be a professional global athlete, trying to reach the level of a LeBron or a Ronaldo, representing mixed martial arts, landing huge endorsement deals with the likes of Nike (after Reebok skidaddle), this isn't the way of going about it.

hatrickpatrick

To be honest I always find the criticism of Conor's alleged Kinahan connections pretty unfair. I'm no fan of them at all - given the reason the feud is alleged to have started, I'd be firmly on the 'side' of the other crowd in terms of sympathy - but Dublin 12 is a very small place socially speaking, a lot of these guys would be childhood friends going back years and years, and asking someone to dump their friends because of stuff they have no involvement in and would presumably regard their friends as innocent until proven guilty over, as most of us would, is an extraordinarily tough ask. Sure, it sounds easy on paper, and it's easy for us to throw that kind of demand around online, but just consider your own lifelong friends, if any of your childhood friendships survived into adulthood - they're basically like family and it would be very very hard to just walk away from them. So when outsiders look at it and see "Conor McGregor hanging out with a bunch of drug dealers", Conor himself just sees "a night out with my long time mates".

Of course, the fact that he now seems to be overtly flaunting these friendships in front of the camera strikes me as deliberate trolling on his part, and based on the stubborn kind of personality we know he has, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if he's not even doing this for publicity as much as just for the sake of "f*ck you, I'll hang out with whoever I want and you can't tell me what to do". Which is absolutely typical Conor McGregor - so not really sure why anyone would expect any different from him.

I'm pretty sure the whole Rita Ora thing is the same - let's just assume for the sake of argument that none of the rumours about that are actually true, and Conor knows it, Dee knows it, Rita knows it. There's nothing there, just for the sake of argument. Is it not literally typical McGregor to say "let's just really act like there's something going on so that the media go apesh!t and the internet loses its mind"?

It just strikes me that people are being trolled here and are allowing themselves to be wound up. It seems very obvious to me that Conor is now deliberately fanning the flames of any and all rumours to come his way - from the house party fight, to the fight in the Forge, to the Rita Ora controversy - purely, as the internet would say, "for the lulz". And if none of these rumours are true, then it just means that he's probably reading this thread and laughing his bollocks off.

I certainly know that's what I'd do if I was in his position, because f*ck any media muppets who think they can basically tell people what to do in their lives just because they're famous. If I was a celebrity and the media was shaming me with baseless rumours, I'd do everything in my power to fuel those rumours and have a massive laugh at the general gullibility of the press.

I grew up on 4chan though so maybe this trolling stuff is just baked into my DNA unlike others?

Outlaw Pete

Tabloids reporting McGregor giving a shout out to Rita Ora at a nightclub in London but in fairness he also gives a shout out to Dee :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyyKGD1Bfs

Getting used to the General impressions too it seems.

jonon9

Go home Conor your drunk.

MarkY91

pgj2015 wrote: »

state of them fools with him in the strip club in their track suits, have they never heard of a pair of jeans and a shirt maybe, no wonder the bouncer didn't wanna let them in. mcgregor would want to wake up, so you lost to floyd, so what, get over it and move on. what happened to "no one gets in and no one gets out"? id say rita ora will still be around if he losses all his money. hanging around with gimps like lewis hamilton and Donatella Versace, talk about a sell out.

So you complain that he hangs around with his type of people (scumbags) and also compalin that he hangs around with other rich celebrities. Who is he actually allowed to be around in your view?

Wheeliebin30

jonon9 wrote: »

Go home Conor your drunk.

The shock of it all.

Someone please think of the kids.

pgj2015

MarkY91 wrote: »

So you complain that he hangs around with his type of people (scumbags) and also compalin that he hangs around with other rich celebrities. Who is he actually allowed to be around in your view?

is there no in between? normal people who aren't drug dealers who kick peoples heads in. also i disagree with what someone said earlier that just because you are life long friends with someone, that you will always stick by them. if any of my life long friends were involved in a vicious assault or joined a gang like the kinahans, they wouldn't be my friends any longer.