Official Conor McGregor thread (part 3) *Updated Warning in 1st Post Re:Boxing match

wonderfullife wrote: »

Thoughts:

Should win and favourite to win with bookies.

That statement can apply to Hillary Clinton, too, though.

He hasn't exactly campaigned to win it - I don't think he even put out one post on his own social media to try win it. The UFC pushed it on their account a bit and they lent RTE a lot of footage for the promo clip to that effect.

Given it's a public vote, he could have walked the award if he pushed it to his Gazillion followers across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. He's also had push-back from prominent people like Eamon Dunphy and a lot of people do actually listen to him - whether people want to believe that or not!

Judging by the recent poll commissioned by PSG (not the football team), then it's not clear cut.

He was named Most Admired Sports Star but lost in the biggest categories to the O' Donovans and to Ireland beating the All-Blacks in the Chicago Test (most memorable moment of year).

No idea if he'll fly home for it (or not) but there's a fair chance he'll be coming home for Xmas this weekend, so I'd say 'probably'.

My suspicion is he'll come 2nd to Paul O' Donovan and both Conor and Frampton will be overlooked. That won't be a travesty, as such, because Olympians tend to dominate Olympic years and Paul backed up his Olympics showing with a strong showing in the Worlds.

But, truthfully, rowing is a sport that a microscopic amount of people actually follow outside of the Olympics and the popular vote should go to McGregor, followed by Frampton.

I would truly worry about the mindset of Irish people if we award it to someone whose highest profile 2016 achievement is coming 2nd at the Olympics when we have 2 winners dominating their sports.

Depp wrote: »

he was on ages ago as far as I can remember...either soon before or after the brandao fight in dublin around that timeframe