red ears wrote: » You know you have too much money when you end up buying the striped suit he was wearing in the GQ shoot.
creeper1 wrote: » Who is the second best Irish Mma fighter? Is it joe Duffy? Is it the Russian hammer Artem? Funny I didn't see three monster threads on them. Do they even have threads on here?.
The Ayatolla wrote: » Where's the Tom Egan thing
Robarley wrote: » https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJByp1P7Q5J7BtwrRHjQLw
Gamebred wrote: » http://www.lifestylesports.com/en/restofworld/clothing/mens-full-cycle-notorious/invt/50050930http://www.lifestylesports.com/en/restofworld/clothing/mens-icon-tee-champion-flag/invt/50051113 Theres some McGregor tshirts if anyone fancies them 5e from Lifestyle, getting bad when they cant shift them for any more Ha.
ASOT wrote: » Id say because they both say interim fw title would have something to do with them being discounted.
wonderfullife wrote: » This is why I wish we had actual journalists in MMA as their falling out may have a good story behind it. Or we might get to ask Coach Kavanagh what's his fascination with alt-right conspiracy theorists who say it's not possible to rape a woman if she doesn't fight back..
wonderfullife wrote: » Sadly, even I agree with this. I keep going back to the 300th episode of The MMA Hour. The one a couple of months before the Aldo fight where he said "I have not changed one bit Ariel, a lot has changed but I'm still the same guy". I think in the beginning there was very little difference between his public and private persona. The blueberry-eating cocky fella was still the same guy we saw asking Dana for 60g's baby after he picked Brimage apart with uppercuts. Over time the gap between his private and public persona has widened dramatically yet, at times, have also morphed into the same thing. Tom Egan hinted at it and perhaps Egan is the type of fella to just say "right, enough of this BS good luck to ya". It's not just Conor though. There's a nasty undercurrent developing with many in SBG, from the top down. Money and fame does change people. It changes people even on the tiniest of scales. I know most people with jobs these days don't get major pay rises but I'd argue a 25% pay rise is enough to change someones confidence, self-belief and stress-levels dramatically. Conor is super-rich now. Kavanagh, if his contract with Conor is any way similar to a normal Coach-Fighter contract, is also a millionaire directly from Conor alone. The extent to which they both keep going down the road they're going is up to them. Kavanagh spends most of his time lately complaining about snowflakes and entitlement & pushing far-right propaganda on Facebook or following nuts like Mike Cernovich on twitter (a lad who believes there's no such thing as rape if the woman doesn't struggle or fight back. A lad who believes that the only proven way to not catch AIDS is to not shag black sluts). SMH. For someone who complains so much about entitlement he sure as hell spends a lot of time looking for freebies from companies online. His star pupil had a tantrum for not getting a freebie from Dolce & Gabana. Conor hinting lately that the only way people should approach him for a photo is at a paying-event like Manchester. They are both making it very hard to like them these days.
The Ayatolla wrote: » Lads we've had the "John Kavanagh religious views" about 50 pages back. Can we not, please?
JohnMc1 wrote: » Sounds like Conor has become like a pro wrestler and started "living his gimmick" to protect kayfabe [aka. Its still real to me dammit]
Depp wrote: » usually love your posts wonder but you're gunna have to stop it with this nonsense, yeah kavanagh follows a guy on twitter what about it, I follow cernovich aswel and I've more or less the same opinion of him as you. Also important to note kavanagh is his own man and can hold whatever beliefs he damn well pleases.
Lukker- wrote: » Gotta agree with the above wonder, tolerance should go both ways, the lack of tolerance is a major reason Trump got elected in the first place.
wonderfullife wrote: » Sigh. My point was we have no real journalists in MMA to even ask broad questions. Example.... Ariel: Conor it seems you've fallen out with Tom Egan but previously you talked about loyalty a lot. Can you tell us what happened there as without Tom the chances are you would never have gotten into MMA? Mike Bohn: Hi Tom, wondering if you'd care to comment on a rumoured fall-out with Conor? Instead we get glorified PR.
wonderfullife wrote: » As for the political stuff I can't reply to it on this thread because ironically the same people telling me I need to be tolerant and respectful of other peoples views are also telling me anything they perceive to be 1 degree of separation irrelevant to Conor McGregor shouldn't be discussed. OR "leave politics out of sport". Today alone, I've seen 4 hardcore neo-nazi accounts on Twitter fawn over the GQ Interview and hold Conor up as their new poster-child. Sooner or later that will become relevant whether you lot like it or not. You're right though Conor and his Coach can hold whatever beliefs they want and I'm perfectly entitled to question them, as are the wider public.
wonderfullife wrote: » I've no tolerance for any man who believes that a woman can't be raped if she doesn't fight back, including when she's unconscious. Anyway, moving on......
Depp wrote: » Ariel and Bohn are mma journalists, not gossip columnists. Conor has no control over who neo nazi twitter accounts look up to. Other accounts of that nature have been holding up bloody pewdiepie in the same vein of late...pewdiepie. Remember it was Cernovich that stated that opinion, not Kavanagh.
wonderfullife wrote: » Why assume it's gossip? If Conor left SBG would you view it as gossip to enquire if he fell out with Kavanagh? Egan was a huge part of Conor's career, I think there's a very valid story in that to ask why he's suddenly persona non grata. You're just assuming the answer to the question is gossip. It might be a difference in opinions on training methods (sparring), a money dispute or whatever. Conor has zero control over neo-nazi accounts endorsing him, you're very right. But if the trend continues he will be asked (sooner or later) if he repudiates their endorsement. If a load of neo-nazi's started endorsing my waffle, I'd take 5 seconds out of my time to say I think they are a bunch of scumbags. It'd stop their endorsements pretty fast. Anyway he's probably just the fad of the day because he defended Trump to an extent in the GQ article.
Depp wrote: » agree with this, no doubt he enjoys the finer things in life and more power to him hes earned them, but I've had a sneaky suspicion lately that this ''persona'' he has created is largely an act and judging by talking to anyone who knows him personally, my suspicions are correct.
JohnMc1 wrote: » [ask Ronda Rousey how well that worked for her too]
wonderfullife wrote: » Joanna Jedrzejczyk on TMZ saying she spoke to Conor on the phone yesterday and she has his back and will be betting money on him to beat Floyd :pac:
JohnMc1 wrote: From all accounts it is a persona. I agree with you that he earned his money and he's free to enjoy it. My problem with him is the same thing I have with other MMA fighters that feel the need to adopt a "persona". Not knowing when to turn it off. Conor doesn't have a fight coming up for the foreseeable future. There's no need for him to be in character. He just comes across as an asshole when he's in character for the sake of being in it [ask Ronda Rousey how well that worked for her too]
Depp wrote: » imagine he actually did it? the absolute scenes if it ends up floyd flat out on the canvas
Depp wrote: imagine he actually did it? the absolute scenes if it ends up floyd flat out on the canvas
