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Official Conor McGregor thread (part 4) *Updated Warning in 1st Post Re:Boxing match

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Official Conor McGregor thread (part 3) *Updated Warning in 1st Post Re:Boxing match
The last thread was nearing the 10k post limit so here's part 4.

The same rules as the last thread apply here. People seem to have strong opinions either way when it comes to McGregor and threads here tend to get a bit heated from time to time. Please keep it civil and discuss all things Conor in a mature way.

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Any "Do you even train Bro?" or "I'm an mma fan longer than you" type posts are not permitted either. They only make you look like a fool and as a result, everyone hates you. Yes everyone.

**Upate with Mayweather vs McGregor announced**

Lads consider this the one and only warning - big fight with a lot of hype around it. It brings new fans to the forum as well as the regulars so try and get along. Any trolling or nonsense and people will find themselves on a break from the forum and that applies to everyone.

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wonderfullife

Gamebred wrote: »

The whole ''trying to legitimize the sport'' line doesn't wash, anytime someone in mma does something bad it gets wheeled out its complete garbage talk. Its violent entertainment it wont ever be as big as other sports ahead of it.

There's no reason MMA can't reach the level of legitimacy of other combat sports. Amateur MMA or BJJ are still outside prospects for an Olympics spot in the next 20 years. There's no reason the sport shouldn't hope to go down a path towards legitimacy, governing bodies, sanctioning bodies, Sport Council funding like other niche sports have.

Legitimacy doesn't equal popularity. MMA will never be as big as football, GAA or rugby but it doesn't have to be as big to be as legitimate.

For the record I went on similar rants when Mick Conlan and Paddy Barnes signed for that racket in Marbella. It's not a Conor thing. It's a "I don't think glorifying drug dealers is a good idea" thing.

Gamebred

wonderfullife wrote: »

What Diego Sanchez did for Isaac will not make one paper in Ireland when that's more representative of the sport as a whole in my view. Conor pictured with drug dealers living it up in a strip club - that will make the papers.

The sport was slowly gaining traction towards legitimacy here and lately every headline generated is Conor getting into hassle.

The fastest way to convince the general public once-and-for-all that MMA is a barbaric sport full of thugs and lowlifes is to be carrying on like Conor has been, trying to portray himself as some sort of Pablo Escobar type 'Don'.

He needs to get a grip. He lives in Straffan not Medellin. He's got kids in SBG and across the country looking up to him whether he wants to be in that position or not. He has a child of his own who will be looking to him in the future.

Those scumbags he's hanging out with will lose nothing if Conor messes up badly. They will crawl back under the rocks they came from.

The whole ''trying to legitimize the sport'' line doesn't wash, anytime someone in mma does something bad it gets wheeled out its complete garbage talk. Its violent entertainment it wont ever be as big as other sports ahead of it.

Let the parents of these kids that look up to him deal with them its not his job to portray some fake image hes being himself fair play to him not hiding anything some people like a good time hes earned it 5 times over with the grinding hes done the last 10 years get off his case hes got one driving fine and all of a sudden hes lost the plot pmsl.

bur

Paully D wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ufcrelated/status/938617861945339904

That is so sad, strip clubs are so depressing.

wonderfullife

Gamebred wrote: »

Wonder you go on as if hes gone rogue, if you knew of him pre mma champion you'd know hes been like this all along he fights in a cage for a living he didnt sign up to be any sbg role model he signed up to beat people up for bundles of money, cant say hes forgotten himself and made new celeb mates either fair play to him sticking with his old pals even if they are scrotes has good loyalty.

What Diego Sanchez did for Isaac will not make one paper in Ireland when that's more representative of the sport as a whole in my view. Conor pictured with drug dealers living it up in a strip club - that will make the papers.

The sport was slowly gaining traction towards legitimacy here and lately every headline generated is Conor getting into hassle.

The fastest way to convince the general public once-and-for-all that MMA is a barbaric sport full of thugs and lowlifes is to be carrying on like Conor has been, trying to portray himself as some sort of Pablo Escobar type 'Don'.

He needs to get a grip. He lives in Straffan not Medellin. He's got kids in SBG and across the country looking up to him whether he wants to be in that position or not. He has a child of his own who will be looking to him in the future.

Those scumbags he's hanging out with will lose nothing if Conor messes up badly. They will crawl back under the rocks they came from.

fitzparker

Effects wrote: »

What age are you, 12?

14... his name is the giveaway

fitzparker

bmcc10 wrote: »

State of them too brothers pair of weasels.

the gear on them to the fashion awards.. straight out of unique, or that closing down shop on parnell street that was open for about 12 year

Effects

14murphy wrote: »

However if I had a 140m in the bank it would be strip clubs

What age are you, 12?

hewhoscares

Wasnt GSP a character witness for a New York drug dealer or something - dont think he washed his hands of him anyways so hardly the best example for comparison.

But yeah the evidence would point towards these brothers being not nice people.

Lukker-

The Nal wrote: »

Some of the commemts on here are no different to comments under a Kardashian story on the Daily Fail.

Who has a nicer bum, Kim or Conor?

The Nal

Some of the commemts on here are no different to comments under a Kardashian story on the Daily Fail.

Gamebred

bmcc10 wrote: »

Suit him better to go have bit of loyalty to his gf and new born child

Didnt know you had to be home 24/7 because you've a kid and bird, news to me.

14murphy

CitizenFloor wrote: »

Exactly. Some of the other rumors may be true. Some of crap he has done recently is ridiculous....but that video is harmless.

I've seen worse by every other Irish man who went to Vegas following Conors fights. Myself included.

CitizenFloor

Richard tea wrote: »

Ok just seen the video. Nothing crazy or mad about that. He is just enjoying himself.

Exactly. Some of the other rumors may be true. Some of crap he has done recently is ridiculous....but that video is harmless.

Richard tea

Ok just seen the video. Nothing crazy or mad about that. He is just enjoying himself.

bmcc10

Gamebred wrote: »

Wonder you go on as if hes gone rogue, if you knew of him pre mma champion you'd know hes been like this all along he fights in a cage for a living he didnt sign up to be any sbg role model he signed up to beat people up for bundles of money, cant say hes forgotten himself and made new celeb mates either fair play to him sticking with his old pals even if they are scrotes has good loyalty.

Suit him better to go have bit of loyalty to his gf and new born child

Gamebred

Wonder you go on as if hes gone rogue, if you knew of him pre mma champion you'd know hes been like this all along he fights in a cage for a living he didnt sign up to be any sbg role model he signed up to beat people up for bundles of money, cant say hes forgotten himself and made new celeb mates either fair play to him sticking with his old pals even if they are scrotes has good loyalty.

Paully D

https://twitter.com/ufcrelated/status/938617861945339904

Richard tea

Any links to these instagram pages

14murphy

but1er wrote: »

Out every night more and more stories coming out about him in trouble with bouncers drugs women. two lads hes with are nothing but scum. his "bouncer" is well known aswell. funny how one only has an instagram page since he met conor.

You can say what you want about his contacts and about unsupported allegations of scuffles with wannabe cartel members and bouncers, that I completely agree is wrong even by association as he is such an idol/role model to many across the world.
However if I had a 140m in the bank it would be strip clubs and LV tracksuits until my heart gave in.
**** fighting. Why risk it. Why risk losing it all. As much as I'd love to see him get back into the cage why should he. I believe his hunger is gone also!

bmcc10

State of them too brothers pair of weasels.

but1er

14murphy wrote: »

I agree. He's living the dream.

Out every night more and more stories coming out about him in trouble with bouncers drugs women. two lads hes with are nothing but scum. his "bouncer" is well known aswell. funny how one only has an instagram page since he met conor.

wonderfullife

Autochange wrote: »

Can we talk about McGregors MMA career or is this just a gossip column?

Is it gossip to have a problem with the face of mixed martial arts in Ireland flaunting his friendship to known drug dealers on social media?

It wasn't all that long ago that Conor vowed to show the world what a "true martial artist looks like". This might be a long post because I've had it.

"The victim fell to the ground and Maloney repeatedly kicked him in the head as he lay semi-conscious. Murray then kicked the victim once before the group fled. Mr O’Brien woke up the next morning in hospital with a broken jaw, smashed teeth and a broken eye socket. He was badly concussed and could not remember much about the attack."

Publicizing and glorifying his friendship's to the type of coward who gets 18 months for stomping on an unconscious man's head...

That isn't what a true martial artist is about.

The Murray's have 73 convictions between them, mostly for drug dealing. The victim in that incident was no saint himself. I'm all for people changing and learning from mistakes but how many chances do they want?

Google the words "Irish MMA". 81 of the top 100 images are Conor McGregor.
Google the words "SBG Ireland". 37 of the top 50 images are Conor McGregor.
Google the word "MMA" (the entire sport). 33 out of 100 images are Conor McGregor.

He's the face of SBG.
He's the face of Irish MMA.
He's the face of MMA.

I don't think it's gossip to want the sport better represented than for the main star to be out flaunting his friendships to the type of people who ruin lives in Dublin. He can be friends with whoever he likes but when he starts promoting and normalizing these drug dealers on social media that's a different story.

On the same day Conor posted that on instagram, this was posted and RT'd by JK:

https://twitter.com/sbg_tullamore/status/938470607733383168

Respect - Conor has none for anybody right now. None for Marc Goddard, none for Andre Fili, none for the Bellator employee, none for the courts, none for his girlfriend, definitely none for his coaches otherwise he wouldn't be doing it all.

Confidence - He has tons of that but I'm more interested in how the confidence levels are of the victims of some of the Murray's crimes. Has their self-belief improved after having their eye socket smashed to bits? Maybe the anxiety levels of family and friends have dropped after being threatened to be shot over a drug debt?

Leadership skills - Freudian slip? Maybe we're talking about dealers and not leaders. Cowardice must be contagious because there hasn't been one iota of ownership from anybody associated with that gym lately. It's all shrugs of shoulders, "apologies" and couldn't give a sh1t.

It would not have been difficult to denounce the use of the word "fag*ot" by the highest profile man in Ireland. It would have been easy and a good message to send to kids. It would not have been hard to come out against assaulting people and putting hands on a ref. It would not have been hard to come out against Charlie Ward saying "Redmond is lucky to be alive", which is crass beyond belief. I'm sure Joao Carvahlo's brother has feelings but maybe he's a "snowflake" if the comments upset him.

These were easy situations to take ownership of a problem and try deal with it.

Why is it SBG's problem?

Well, there have been over 200 times in the past 2 years that the founder of SBG, Matt Thornton, has used Conor as a selling point for "the SBG way" in tweets, mentions, RT's and facebook. Another 100 if you count JK's postings. I will post every single one of them if it makes the point.

They are the ones holding Conor up as the example of what SBG and martial arts is all about.

You don't get to use him as a selling-point to try entice kids everywhere to join the SBG tribe and then ignore the fact he's out there assaulting people, hanging around with drug dealers, and acting like one himself.

Can you imagine the reaction in Canada if GSP was posting pictures tagging known scumbag drug dealers? I'm 99% certain Firas Zahabi would have a major problem with it given he has many times banned people from his gym if they get caught doing drugs, it would reflect terribly on Tristar and the Canadian media & public would have problems with it too.

The death of Carvahlo did plenty to deter participation in this country. It had to have had a negative impact. Most sane parents after that death would have been vehemently opposed to their child going into the sport. I felt like we turned a corner with the improvements in safety and with Conor capturing the lightweight title. There was a feel-good factor returning.

Now, 12 months on, the front page headlines about MMA are Conor allegedly going around with the Murray's slapping the head off other drug dealers, doing copious amounts of white stuff himself and if that wasn't bad enough he wants to flaunt it all.

Yet again, if you're a parent of a young child and interested in getting them into a sport, it's not that hard a choice right now to swerve MMA where the main star is on the front pages every other day in some new shady controversy and stick them into a more 'normal' sport.

If Conor, John or Matt Thornton are confused on what a true martial artist looks like I can definitely help with that one.

His name is Diego Sanchez.

"Most down syndrome adults don't live past 45," Sanchez told local TV station KRQE before the bout. "Isaac is 32, and I just wanted to see this young man be healthy. Exercise and martial arts are one of the most healthy things you can do.

"He came to just come and check out the gym and I told him, 'You like MMA?' and he said, 'I love fighting', and then I said, 'Alright. Well are you here to just watch or do you want to train?' and he said, 'I want to train'.

"So, I said 'alright let's do this'. He believes it with all of his heart, so I am going to make it happen."

14murphy

Gamebred wrote: »

Yeah enjoying himself in a strip club is a train wreck and a 400 quid speeding fine go back to bed Butler.

I agree. He's living the dream.

Ash.J.Williams

but1er wrote: »

this is a train wreck to watch, real shame. every day at this stage its something new. rumor has it dee has had enough and packed up. how long can Audie dana lorenzo john roddy artum keep watching this without someone putting their hand around his should and has a word, only going to get worse and the media will continue to enjoy his downfall.

roddy/Kavanagh etc seem absent/distant from all the non UFC situations.

Gamebred

but1er wrote: »

this is a train wreck to watch, real shame. every day at this stage its something new. rumor has it dee has had enough and packed up. how long can Audie dana lorenzo john roddy artum keep watching this without someone putting their hand around his should and has a word, only going to get worse and the media will continue to enjoy his downfall.

Yeah enjoying himself in a strip club is a train wreck and a 400 quid speeding fine go back to bed Butler.

but1er

this is a train wreck to watch, real shame. every day at this stage its something new. rumor has it dee has had enough and packed up. how long can Audie dana lorenzo john roddy artum keep watching this without someone putting their hand around his should and has a word, only going to get worse and the media will continue to enjoy his downfall.

Effects

Not that interested in them. They just seem like useless entourage thinking they are rich and famous.

MarkY91

Them 2 knacker lads from his last Instagram post have Instagram story videos of them an Conor in a strip club. Good entetainment. Give them s follow!

Effects

The Nal wrote: »

A link would be nice

Looks like his instagram is Private.

The Nal

glenfieldman wrote: »

Getting back to his London trip,
You should check out his mate AM Instagram of the strip club last night

A link would be nice