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

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  • #3362
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Dissapointed with mcgregor the past few months with his unwillingness to defend his belt in pursuit of this circus match with floyd that will be lapped up by idiot masses.

    To be a true champion you must defend your title and i say this as a mcgregor fan


  • #3363
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    eddie73 wrote: »
    What was most strange was that there were no questions about the lightweight belt, the interim belt that will be fought for in 6 weeks and the potential match up between himself and either Ferguson or Kahbib. The Mayweather fight was probably no 1, the lightweight belt was the next biggest question. He made one comment about both Ferguson and Kahbib in general terms, as having glass chins. As an MMA supporter you would have been disappointed with this interview. There was nothing really specific about it. Yes we know that Conor wants another run at Nate Diaz, but to be honest, there are bigger potential matches out there than Nate.

    I have a feeling that Conor will not defend any belts. He is on a collision course for a row and huge falling out with the UFC and it seems to be a pre ordained plan.

    I agree 100%, I know there is a lot of Conor fans here and when anyone says anything bad about Conor they jump down their throats, but Conor is being a dick towards the UFC. They spent millions promoting him, made him a millionaire and he doesn't seem grateful at all. I know Conor also worked hard himself, but the UFC would be the UFC without Conor, Conor would be no one without the UFC.


  • #3364
    Axwell
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    Lads some of you would be advised to have a read/re read of the charter and familiarize yourself with the rules..particularly paying attention to item 7 to save yourself an infraction or more...consider that the one and only warning

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055878194


  • #3365
    Lukker-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    ricero wrote: »
    Dissapointed with mcgregor the past few months with his unwillingness to defend his belt in pursuit of this circus match with floyd that will be lapped up by idiot masses.

    To be a true champion you must defend your title and i say this as a mcgregor fan

    In all honesty I don't think he cares about being a "true champion".

    He did what he said he would, he won the belts.

    Now I'd love for him to focus primarily on MMA and secure his status and legacy among the GOATs like I know he could.

    But if he wants to fight Floyd in a money fight that's his prerogative. It's a short career, with the potential for terrible injury. With one fight with Floyd he will earn at least double his career earnings for one fight, if not more, securing his new families future long term.

    If you were offered a job promotion, where the pay was 10x what you would normally get for similar work, what would you do?


  • #3366
    eddie73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭eddie73


    He is only 28. A fight with Mayweather will certainly see him right for the rest of his life.

    I am saying that it is strange that he didnt talk about the interim belt, the potential of defending his title or anything like this. If that is infracting against article 7 or any other article then we are in North Korea here.


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  • #3367
    Killergreene
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 431 ✭✭Killergreene


    He did mention them. He said he would have fought aldo or holloway in March If they asked. He also called tony Ferguson "tony donkey" and said they were both bums


  • #3368
    eddie73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭eddie73


    yeah like 30 seconds, less even. I mentioned this. Its hardly balanced over an hour of a pay per view event.


  • #3369
    dave1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭dave1982


    Axwell wrote: »
    Lads some of you would be advised to have a read/re read of the charter and familiarize yourself with the rules..particularly paying attention to item 7 to save yourself an infraction or more...consider that the one and only warning

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055878194

    Maybe we need a rule 14.. Conor Mcgregor will only be spoken about as the greatest of all time. You can not say he should defend his belts, If you question this you will be banned


  • #3370
    John_D80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    Ah lads the new Pegasus video is only f#*kin hilarious!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsOc6d4uPls




    ''Conor McGregor doesn't need a horse, he's the greatest jockey on the planet''


  • #3371
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    ricero wrote: »
    Dissapointed with mcgregor the past few months with his unwillingness to defend his belt in pursuit of this circus match with floyd that will be lapped up by idiot masses.

    To be a true champion you must defend your title and i say this as a mcgregor fan
    He fought in November. He's expecting the birth of his first child and is taking some time off. If this was anyone else it wouldn't be an issue. Yet with McGregor it's a drama.

    I've no idea what his next fight will be. But I'm fairly sure that his next MMA fight will be the winner of Khabib v Ferguson. At least let them get their NO.1 contender match out of the way before we talk about McGregor not defending.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    I agree 100%, I know there is a lot of Conor fans here and when anyone says anything bad about Conor they jump down their throats, but Conor is being a dick towards the UFC. They spent millions promoting him, made him a millionaire and he doesn't seem grateful at all. I know Conor also worked hard himself, but the UFC would be the UFC without Conor, Conor would be no one without the UFC.
    They spent millions promoting him, to take in 100's of millions. They weren't doing it for his benefit. It's ironic, I'm usually one to defend the UFC from some of the bias criticisms. But I'm not going to feel sorry for them if Conor plays the business card with them. Dana is smart enough to understand how it works. He'll be alright, he made half a billion dollars from the sale of the UFC. Conor wasn't the only factor in that, but he was definitely a factor.

    The sport is MMA. But the UFC is a business. We've said that for years around here.


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  • #3372
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,670 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    the only thing I learned from that is my source close to McGregor is proper.

    I mentioned the Mcgregor promotions back when everyone was speculating what his announcement after 205 was.
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    I'd take this with a massive pinch of salt but what I heard is him and John kavanagh will be setting up a promotion of their own so he will be taking some time out. I don't see how that is considered personal but I'll put it out here anyway.


  • #3373
    gitzy16v
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭gitzy16v


    John_D80 wrote: »
    Ah lads the new Pegasus video is only f#*kin hilarious!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsOc6d4uPls




    ''Conor McGregor doesn't need a horse, he's the greatest jockey on the planet''

    I liked that,might be a bogey film for him yet:)
    He might do a Vinny Jones:pac:


  • #3374
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    ricero wrote: »
    Dissapointed with mcgregor the past few months with his unwillingness to defend his belt in pursuit of this circus match with floyd that will be lapped up by idiot masses.

    To be a true champion you must defend your title and i say this as a mcgregor fan

    Where does it say that? No where. He doesn't owe anyone anything. He's been incredibly active over the past 24 months. Doesn't he have more UFC fights under his belt than Aldo has who's been around forever?

    The guy knows his name is a franchise, he competes in a competition where the "rules" are consistently bent to suit PPV numbers, he'd be a fool not to angle for the most financially rewarding fight next - he definitely won't be adhering to some maligned idea of sportsmanship to defend his title.


  • #3375
    Axwell
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    dave1982 wrote: »
    Maybe we need a rule 14.. Conor Mcgregor will only be spoken about as the greatest of all time. You can not say he should defend his belts, If you question this you will be banned

    No you wont be banned for questioning him defending his belts, but posting smart arse comments back chatting a mod is a good way to go about it. The rule refers to fighter bashing - we have a few new people dropping in to tell us his career is over and similar comments and they are being reminded to have a read of the charter, no one referred to you at all so pipe down.


  • #3376
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    rob316 wrote: »
    the only thing I learned from that is my source close to McGregor is proper.

    I mentioned the Mcgregor promotions back when everyone was speculating what his announcement after 205 was.

    didn't he talk about his own promotion right after beating aldo?


  • #3377
    Django99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Django99


    To be honest it seems to me that McGregor would be very much willing to take as much time as it takes to get the Mayweather fight before defending a belt. He seems to have set his mind to it and that's that.

    if he doesn't defend it this year i would imagine they'll make Tony/Khabib the full champ. Doesn't make a difference really, whenever McGregor is back he'll fight whoever holds the belt.


  • #3378
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Django99 wrote: »
    To be honest it seems to me that McGregor would be very much willing to take as much time as it takes to get the Mayweather fight before defending a belt. He seems to have set his mind to it and that's that.

    if he doesn't defend it this year i would imagine they'll make Tony/Khabib the full champ. Doesn't make a difference really, whenever McGregor is back he'll fight whoever holds the belt.

    cant see him being stripped of the 155 belt however long hes out, hes too valuable to forego the champions clause


  • #3379
    D0NNELLY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    gitzy16v wrote: »
    I liked that,might be a bogey film for him yet:)
    He might do a Vinny Jones:pac:

    Speaking during a night of An Experience With (via avpgalaxy.net), MMA’s Conor McGregor revealed that he was offered a lead role in The Predator, but turned it down as he wanted more money to star.

    “I’ll tell you there’s a lot of offers that I’ve turned down. I got offered The Predator movie. There’s a new Predator movie coming out and the guys came to me – did you see that horse thing I’ve done, the horse racing? That was like three days’ solid work for a hell of a lot of money, for three days. During that three day course, the people from Predator who are having this new Predator movie, a blockbuster… They came in and tried to sell the whole ****. ‘We want you to be the main guy and you’re gonna fight Predator’ and I’m like ‘This sounds brilliant! How much?’


    “Not enough. We went back and forth negotiating and the number climbed up but if I was to do it [it] would mean eight weeks in Canada, in Toronto or somewhere. It’s too long a time. You can’t do a million things at once. The Pegasus thing was one thing because it was like three days, in and out. But seven, eight weeks on a film set is heavy as ****. Plus it would have crept in around when he’s due [McGregor’s unborn baby boy]. I didn’t want to get tricky with that so I turned down that offer.”


  • #3380
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    He also turned down a role in XXX. The role that ended up going to Bisping I'd guess.


  • #3381
    dashoonage
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    The whole promotion thing. I'd love to see mcgregor align himself with CW to be honest. That promotion has done a hell of a lot for irish MMA and it would be great to see mcgregor giving a hand to pull in the numbers and build the brand back up.


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  • #3382
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,458 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Even with a heap of money would Conor really get in the ring with Floyd to be brutally exposed and embarrassed? Unless they do a secret deal whereby Floyd eases up and makes it competitive?


  • #3383
    AlmightyCushion
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    walshb wrote: »
    Even with a heap of money would Conor really get in the ring with Floyd to be brutally exposed and embarrassed? Unless they do a secret deal whereby Floyd eases up and makes it competitive?

    If he loses he can just say he took on the best at their game and lost but at last he tried and if it had been a real fight he take him easily or something to that effect.

    He lost to Nate Diaz in MMA, his first loss in UFC and his first loss in 5 years. It didn't hurt him and he's bigger than ever now. A loss to Mayweather won't hurt him apart from maybe injuring his back when he lifts up the big bag of money he'd make from it.


  • #3384
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,101 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    walshb wrote: »
    Even with a heap of money would Conor really get in the ring with Floyd to be brutally exposed and embarrassed? Unless they do a secret deal whereby Floyd eases up and makes it competitive?

    Of course he would. In fairness he is so deluded he would go in there thinking he could win.


  • #3385
    darced
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  • #3386
    Django99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Django99


    Floyd said on Saturday that it will be at 147 or 150lbs. How much of a size advantage would McGregor have for the fight? Is IV still allowed in boxing to rehydrate?

    I would predict a 120-108 win for Floyd. Maybe even a couple of 10-8 rounds if there's a few standing counts. But I don't think Floyd would go out trying to finish the fight. I would think he would be content to just have McGregor chasing shadows and land the odd counter.


  • #3387
    Lukker-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    Django99 wrote: »
    Floyd said on Saturday that it will be at 147 or 150lbs. How much of a size advantage would McGregor have for the fight? Is IV still allowed in boxing to rehydrate?

    I would predict a 120-108 win for Floyd. Maybe even a couple of 10-8 rounds if there's a few standing counts. But I don't think Floyd would go out trying to finish the fight. I would think he would be content to just have McGregor chasing shadows and land the odd counter.

    Depends on the org, but boxing generally falls under USADA. Not as strict as the UFC but IV's are banned, unless you are Floyd Mayweather.

    Also not a sniff Conor is fighting at 147, even 150 seems slightly far-fetched. I'd expect the minimum to be 152.


  • #3388
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    walshb wrote: »
    Even with a heap of money would Conor really get in the ring with Floyd to be brutally exposed and embarrassed?
    I'm honestly not sure if you are serious or joking. Embarrassed? What is there to be embarrassed about.

    It's a boxing match, Floyd is the best of all time at boxing.
    Making a pro debut verses Floyd and losing is completely normal. He's getting in there knowing he'll probably be outclassed.

    Don't get me wrong, he's not going to roll over on it. He has a 100-1 shot at history and he'll go for it. But he won't be crying in the shower when Mayweather's had gets lifted.


  • #3389
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Lukker- wrote: »
    Depends on the org, but boxing generally falls under USADA. Not as strict as the UFC but IV's are banned, unless you are Floyd Mayweather.
    USADA is USADA, whether its UFC or MMA. Same rules apply.

    They don't actually make any of the rules, just enforce the rules set down by WADA.


  • #3390
    messinkiapina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭messinkiapina


    So this is actually a serious possibility then Vs. Mayweather?

    I already knew Mayweather is a tool who'd sell his granny to ISIS to make a few dollars, but McGregor is just as bad. 2 men willing rob their fans of their hard earned cash by staging a nonsense 'contest'. Disgusting people.


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  • #3391
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    messinkiapina wrote: »
    I already knew Mayweather is a tool who'd sell his granny to ISIS to make a ew dollars, but McGregor is just as bad. 2 men willing rob their fans of their hard earned cash by staging a nonsense 'contest'. Disgusting people.
    What sort of bizarre logic is that?
    Nobody is forced to hand over any money. Nobody is forced to watch it even.
    Very strange to act otherwise.



    Personally I'll definitely be watching if it happens. Unashamedly so also. Won't cost me a penny either, not that it matters.
    Lots of people will no doubt claim they don't care, won't watch etc. I won't believe most of them.


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