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

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  • #3692
    red ears
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭red ears


    You know you have too much money when you end up buying the striped suit he was wearing in the GQ shoot.


  • #3693
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,377 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    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.

    I doubt he bought any of that stuff. The designer and prices are below all the pictures. They are paying for that exposure, it's a glorified ad. It's how those magazine work.

    He might be allows to keep the suit for Halloween. :D


  • #3694
    creeper1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭creeper1


    If McGregor is out for a year or two maybe we could turn our attention elsewhere.

    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?

    I think McGregors personality in front of cameras is what really makes him entertaining. It's almost like WWE.


  • #3695
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,377 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    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?.
    It's on the first page.
    https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057357174
    There's actually a whole forum out there.
    Try it out, you might like it


  • #3696
    The Ayatolla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,209 ✭✭✭The Ayatolla


    Where's the Tom Egan thing


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  • #3697
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    The Ayatolla wrote: »
    Where's the Tom Egan thing

    16807288_775836682591888_8798312815964488169_n.jpg?oh=a76a60cebed20c26fb1fffce4b5f42e4&oe=59417A4B

    He posted that and laughing emoji's

    Its top of this page


  • #3698
    Robarley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Robarley


    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJByp1P7Q5J7BtwrRHjQLw


  • #3699
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    Robarley wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJByp1P7Q5J7BtwrRHjQLw

    ?


  • #3700
    Gamebred
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,269 ✭✭✭Gamebred


    http://www.lifestylesports.com/en/restofworld/clothing/mens-full-cycle-notorious/invt/50050930


    http://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.


  • #3701
    ASOT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,764 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Gamebred wrote: »
    http://www.lifestylesports.com/en/restofworld/clothing/mens-full-cycle-notorious/invt/50050930


    http://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.

    Id say because they both say interim fw title would have something to do with them being discounted.


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  • #3702
    Swashbuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    ASOT wrote: »
    Id say because they both say interim fw title would have something to do with them being discounted.

    Eagle eye ASOT they call him.


  • #3703
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    Can't find Tom's post he must have deleted it. Beetlejuice good film though.

    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.

    Peter Carroll squarely looking at you. You write for 3 dozen outlets. Ask some questions ffs :p.

    Right now the only way to get these questions asked is Deadspin :pac:

    In other news, if the winner of Khabib/Tony gets injured and Floyd isn't happening, I'd settle for Conor v GSP in July.


  • #3704
    Fromvert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    You shouldn't care what political stance sportspeople and their coaches take. They don't have to explain anything and I'd guess most of us don't care.


  • #3705
    The Ayatolla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,209 ✭✭✭The Ayatolla


    Lads we've had the "John Kavanagh religious views" about 50 pages back. Can we not, please?


  • #3706
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    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..

    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. just because you click follow on someones profile doesnt mean you're ''obsessed'' with them or you have the same beliefs as them on all issues. Also important to note kavanagh is his own man and can hold whatever beliefs he damn well pleases.


  • #3707
    Lukker-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    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.


  • #3708
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    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.


    Sounds like Conor has become like a pro wrestler and started "living his gimmick" to protect kayfabe [aka. Its still real to me dammit]

    He claimed he's stepping away from the sport to make Dee's pregnancy as stress free as possible. Someone should ask him if publicly saying he wants to see another Woman's ass is his idea of keeping Dee's pregnancy stress free.


  • #3709
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    The Ayatolla wrote: »
    Lads we've had the "John Kavanagh religious views" about 50 pages back. Can we not, please?

    What's there to discuss? He's let it be known that he's the the Atheist equivalent to a "Bible Thumping" Christian for years.


  • #3710
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    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]

    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.


  • #3711
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    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.

    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.

    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.
    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.

    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......


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  • #3712
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    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.

    Ariel and Bohn are mma journalists, not gossip columnists.
    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.

    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.
    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......

    Remember it was Cernovich that stated that opinion, not Kavanagh.


  • #3713
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    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.

    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.


  • #3714
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    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.

    Id be interested as to why he left sbg in general to be fair. With tom however we have no actual proof there even is a rift outside of rumours, tom has his own life in boston with a team of fighters etc. and I wouldn't read much into the picture on facebook thing, i regularly post similar to take the piss out of my closest friends!

    Im sure if pressed conor would be fairly quick to denounce these guys endorsements as any rational human would, theres a good chance hes not even aware of these pages considering the amount hes mentioned on twitter id imagine its impossible to read them all. More than likely he is, they seem to latch on to the most tenuous of links.


  • #3715
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    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:


  • #3716
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    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.

    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]


  • #3717
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    [ask Ronda Rousey how well that worked for her too]

    I think the far bigger issue with Ronda is that women's MMA evolved past her. When she was the dominant force it was partly because women's MMA was so new, lacked talent, lacked depth and her brute strength and clinical Judo was enough.

    It's why I've been so encouraged to see the likes of Kayla Harrison and Helen Maroulis both say they will be taking time to develop MMA skills before contemplating setting foot in a cage. They both realize their Olympic-Gold-Level Judo and Wrestling won't be enough to guarantee success.

    Whereas 5 years ago, I think it's fair to say either of them could have gone straight into the UFC and been immediately competitive.

    What I'm trying to say is that Ronda being aloof and unlikeable was only highlighted by the fact she got starched twice in a row. If Conor had lost back-to-back against Nate and got choked out both times, there's a chance a similar backlash would have occurred.


  • #3718
    Depp
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    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:

    imagine he actually did it? the absolute scenes if it ends up floyd flat out on the canvas


  • #3719
    Swashbuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    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]

    To be honest it's not just him and other MMA fighters. Seems to be the way to go nowadays. Infamy is the new fame. Assh*les and trolls like Katie Hopkins, Piers Morgan, and the likes are "famous" for being assh*les. Seems to be what people are into. Appeal to the lowest common denominator.


  • #3720
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    Depp wrote: »
    imagine he actually did it? the absolute scenes if it ends up floyd flat out on the canvas

    Would be epic! I'd just like to see him land a solid shot so I can see how his power translates with the bigger gloves. Body/head. Any sort of really solid punch landing clean. Easier said than done against Floyd but if he can somehow find his chin with a clean shot it could get interesting.

    Actually scrap that I'd just like the fight to be made or not-made so we don't waste half the year being led up the garden path.


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  • #3721
    jcd5971
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭jcd5971


    Depp wrote:
    imagine he actually did it? the absolute scenes if it ends up floyd flat out on the canvas

    Oh god it would be so good yet also bad as mcgregor would probably get even more unlikeable with his ego.

    Honestly he was great at the beginning but lately it's getting hard to cheer for him if I'm being honest and I went over to see him in Vegas for 189 against mendes.

    I miss the loveable rouge type character he was, and am tired of this mini money mayweather routine.


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