ThinkProgress wrote: » And if he is designing the clothing line himself, which he has suggested, then he'll need to maintain his large MMA fan(boy)base to buy the clothes... because the average man on the street is unlikely to be seen dead in most of the strange sh!t he wears!!
walshb wrote: » Just watched the New York presser..... God, how did it get worse than the other two? Words cannot describe... But clear as day that these two lads are as much buddies as enemies...They're a double act of diiirt! Please tell me others see what I see?
yourdeadwright wrote: » The just got off the same private jet in London
McGregor has come across as unintelligent, ill-informed and naive in some of his ugly comments and if he is the modern version of an Irish role model, then this country’s morals are in a far worse state than we feared.
highbury1913 wrote: » I couldn't agree more with Kevin Palmer in this article.http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/boxing/comment-conor-mcgregor-has-been-an-embarrassment-to-ireland-during-this-weeks-circus-35931273.html He's an embarrassment and it does reflect poorly on the country that he can still retain his huge popularity irrespective of all this behaviour over the years and still win the RTE sports award in a public vote. People like Ariel Helwani and other MMA journalists are happy to go along with it. They're McGregor fans with typewriters.
the whole year inn wrote: » Embarrassment, can you at least fill out your statement. I'm an average Mcgregor fan but that statement is crazy, to go from the Dole to the highest paid boxing match ever is an embarrassment.
walshb wrote: » What has money got to do with it?
the whole year inn wrote: » Everything
Gamebred wrote: » I pity any person with their faculties buying this ppv for a 100 quid in America truly sad if millions buy into this.
the whole year inn wrote: » Embarrassment, can you at least fill out your statement. I'm an average Mcgregor fan but that statement is crazy, to go from the Dole to the highest paid boxing match ever is an embarrassment. That article says nothing new, rehashed points and zero insight.
Too Tough To Die wrote: » I can't think of a better Irish role model. 'Unintelligent, ill-informed and naive' - this is all your parent's work. Not everyone's Dad can demonstrate that you can achieve much more in life than anyone thought possible. That's what people like McGregor are for.
For many young men in this country, Conor McGregor is an untouchable symbol of sporting success. He is their warrior in green, white and orange, their standard bearer for Irishness who has emerged from nothing and turned himself into a multi-millionaire. When these kids get their tattoos to look like their hero and grow beards to try and follow the McGregor doctrine, they are worshiping an icon who is arguably the most famous Irishman in the world right now.Yet while his success is admirable in many ways, the vulgar, embarrassing farce he has been a part of this week should see him recast, as he has gone out of his way to pollute this nation’s reputation with each and every word that escaped from his mouth this week.
highbury1913 wrote: » I'm not disputing his achievements and his rise. I would like to keep it on that discussion yet McGregor makes it hard for me to do so. I draw the distinction between his accomplishments and his behaviour. Kevin Palmer does so too in the article.http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/boxing/comment-conor-mcgregor-has-been-an-embarrassment-to-ireland-during-this-weeks-circus-35931273.html
Burial. wrote: » Saw on Facebook the two lads shared a jet to London. And people still think these lads are legitimately going at each other. Scripting their way all the way to the bank.
pac_man wrote: » The bloke that wrote the article happens to be a showbiz journalist. Might be apt for this fight but probably wouldn't give too much credence to his sporting opinions.
ScumLord wrote: » Fighters tend to get along. They're job is to fight and promote fights. The talk they do on the stage is real in that they both believe they're going to win the fight but once the event is over there's no reason why they can't be civil and get along with each other. They don't actually hate each other. It's a sport.
Burial. wrote: » Not really sure. Fighters generally hate each other until after the fight is done.
Why does "selling a fight" give McGregor immunity from criticism for behaviour society long ago stopped accepting? These words and terms, with all they evoke, have a corrosive and ruinous impact on society by themselves. A belief in the power of words is why it's important to point out McGregor's use of these terms, and to ask for a full, earnest apology: for those would be powerful words, too.
highbury1913 wrote: » Good to see more in the Irish media finally calling him out on his words and actions.
ScumLord wrote: » The press can get off their high horse, they'd say anything to get attention themselves, their whole industry is based on sensationalism, hysterics and now clickbait nonsense. There's nothing worse than a sanctimonious journalist.
willowthewisp wrote: » Conor McGregor accentuates all that has denigrated Irish society recently in a race to the bottom. And all his minions just say , well it's for the money..... Education and common sense is a gift obviously not bestowed to everyone it seems.
Eyes Down Field wrote: » What boxing skills? You do realise he's coming again possiblly the greatest boxers of all time.
walshb wrote: » Really? Little shallow that...... Money cannot buy style and class and manners and decorum...
