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Official Conor McGregor thread (part 5) Read Mod Note in Post 1

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Official Conor McGregor thread (part 5)

The last thread was nearing the 10k post limit where boards explodes so here's part 5.

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hewhoscares

cloudatlas wrote: »

CatFromHue wrote: »

I'm guessing he posted that as a funny/weird thing that happened to him, I don't think he's trying to imply he "owned" her.

Also in America the wait staff tend to engage in conversation, I presume to get a tip or are told to by management, which when you're from outside the country tends to turn bizarre.

Jk has a history of posting comments from others in a bid to belittle them in order to elevate himself as some kind of pseudo intellectual, it's incredibly sad and he clings to contrarian republican conservatives like Shapiro who engage nobody with any professional qualification in discussion just sophomore college students and dumb news anchors yet he's touted as some intellectual savant type.

definitely. I rememeber when he did a big post calling Conor a genius for some rebuttal about criticism he'd received (think it was Floyd race baiting) and he started the post with something like "as someone with a high level degree" - and it read like a full on IAMVERYSMART post.

He's obviously got a bit about him but he's not the savant he likes to think he is. I've personally never met any truly intelligent person who felt the need to rub it in your face - like they knew they where clever, but they knew what they didn't know which is just as important - and Kavanagh is every inch the smug atheist teen type

Mellor

weldoninhio wrote: »

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Of course the Artem thing was all about Conor. Didn’t he get TUF to completely change their rules so that Artem could come back!!!!

How is getting Artem back in the house all about Conor? You lost me there.

Same as jumping into the cage when he won. It looked clear to me he was simply ecstatic for his friend. I think we are st the point where people are twisting everything he has ever done to fit a certain narrative.
For example I don't remember anyone saying he was selfish jumping into the cage (on TUF) at the time.
If the Ward/Redmond fight was actually over, I don't think many would have cared either for that matter, as that would have avoided the entire shįtstorm.

Mellor

JohnMc1 wrote: »

It ain't just Joe.ie. All the papers are all front over his booze ups, coke binges and hooker escapes. He was in the papers the other for claiming he runs the mobs

The papers are running front page story based on photos passed around whatsapp. Can't really say that's Conor's doing unless you are suggesting he leaked the photos himself.

cloudatlas

CatFromHue wrote: »

I'm guessing he posted that as a funny/weird thing that happened to him, I don't think he's trying to imply he "owned" her.

Also in America the wait staff tend to engage in conversation, I presume to get a tip or are told to by management, which when you're from outside the country tends to turn bizarre.

Jk has a history of posting comments from others in a bid to belittle them in order to elevate himself as some kind of pseudo intellectual, it's incredibly sad and he clings to contrarian republican conservatives like Shapiro who engage nobody with any professional qualification in discussion just sophomore college students and dumb news anchors yet he's touted as some intellectual savant type.

CatFromHue

I'm guessing he posted that as a funny/weird thing that happened to him, I don't think he's trying to imply he "owned" her.

Also in America the wait staff tend to engage in conversation, I presume to get a tip or are told to by management, which when you're from outside the country tends to turn bizarre.

cloudatlas

"Looking at the landscape of my current opponents, everyone of them have truly weak areas in the overall picture of fighting. You cannot test me in a straight fight.
Nobody on this earth can." -Conor Mcgregor.

Hmmmm.... lets run for 40 minutes Conor.

"Waitress at breakfast "so where are you from?"
Ireland
-OH that's cool. You know who my favorite boxer is?
No?
-GGG
Cool...but he's from Kazakhstan
-Yeah but the whole UK and everything
Yeah but I'm Irish
-OK, well enjoy your breakfast – at Winnavegas Casino" -John Kavanagh

Wow superior intellect there give that man an honorary degree, I mean he owned that waitress and put her in her box.

Effects

monty_python wrote: »

Alot of talk on Facebook about McGregors next fight in Russia against kahbib

Facebook chat means nothing. Also highly doubtful Conor would want to fight him in Russia. What has he got to gain from giving any advantage it might offer to Khabib? Conor is the one who holds all the power in who he fights and where.

weldoninhio

Mellor wrote: »

I noticed you ignored the Artem part.

With Ward he could have clapped and met him at the cage door. But you're being disingenuous to suggest any overvthe top reaction is motivated by selfishness.
Fans often rush the pitch after big football matches, caught up in the excitement or trying to steal the limelight?

The fact he's not rushing back to the spotlight kinda contradicts your point though right. If it wasn't for Joe.ie writing an article about every instagram post or people losing their minds over what Pyjamas he wears, he wouldn't be in the spotlight at all.

155 Title fight to be announced soon, and the circus starts up.

Of course the Artem thing was all about Conor. Didn’t he get TUF to completely change their rules so that Artem could come back!!!!

JohnMc1

Mellor wrote: »

I noticed you ignored the Artem part.

With Ward he could have clapped and met him at the cage door. But you're being disingenuous to suggest any overvthe top reaction is motivated by selfishness.

With Conor's over the top antics to make sure he stays in the spotlight he loses the "He got caught up in the moment" benefit of the doubt.

The fact he's not rushing back to the spotlight kinda contradicts your point though right. If it wasn't for Joe.ie writing an article about every instagram post or people losing their minds over what Pyjamas he wears, he wouldn't be in the spotlight at all.

155 Title fight to be announced soon, and the circus starts up.

It ain't just Joe.ie. All the papers are all front over his booze ups, coke binges and hooker escapes. He was in the papers the other for claiming he runs the mobs. You can't tell me he doesn't crave the attention. Otherwise he would be keeping his mouth shut [and not trashing fighters he seems to have no intention of fighting]and take care of Dee and his son without these antics.

Lukker-

For someone who loves attention he sure does hate doing media

Mellor

JohnMc1 wrote: »

**** YES. If he just wanted to congratulate Ward he would have just walked over to the cage door where he would be exiting and hug him there. Not perform that spectacle that he did.

I noticed you ignored the Artem part.

With Ward he could have clapped and met him at the cage door. But you're being disingenuous to suggest any overvthe top reaction is motivated by selfishness.
Fans often rush the pitch after big football matches, caught up in the excitement or trying to steal the limelight?

If Conor wants the spotlight that badly he should get back in the cage.

The fact he's not rushing back to the spotlight kinda contradicts your point though right. If it wasn't for Joe.ie writing an article about every instagram post or people losing their minds over what Pyjamas he wears, he wouldn't be in the spotlight at all.

155 Title fight to be announced soon, and the circus starts up.

monty_python

Alot of talk on Facebook about McGregors next fight in Russia against kahbib

JohnMc1

Mellor wrote: »

You really think he was trying to steal the spotlight from award that night?
What about jumping into the cage on TUF stealing Artem's moment?
Admittedly the Belator moment turned into a cluster****. But on TUF he looked genuine in his excitm by for his mate.

**** YES. If he just wanted to congratulate Ward he would have just walked over to the cage door where he would be exiting and hug him there. Not perform that spectacle that he did.

If Conor wants the spotlight that badly he should get back in the cage.

Mellor

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Can we all just admit that admit that Conor is a huge attention whore and doesn't want anyone else having the spotlight [hence his Bellator antics]

You really think he was trying to steal the spotlight from award that night?
What about jumping into the cage on TUF stealing Artem's moment?
Admittedly the Belator moment turned into a cluster****. But on TUF he looked genuine in his excitm by for his mate.

JohnMc1

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Let's assume you're right about that - what does he actually have to gain from stoking the rumours about himself and the Kinahans? He doesn't exactly need any more notoriety than he already has, so if it isn't that he's a massive troll (which we know he is already) who likes to get a rise out of people and is happy to fan false rumours like this and manipulate the press into running away with them, then what is causing him to draw attention to this, exactly?

Can we all just admit that admit that Conor is a huge attention whore and doesn't want anyone else having the spotlight [hence his Bellator antics]

hatrickpatrick

dulux99 wrote: »

To be honest I also think you're giving him far more credit than he deserves. I think he just sees himself as a king these days. He's already achieved everything he's ever wanted to achieve and he's not even 30. Wildly rich and successful, has won two world titles in the UFC, and is probably the most famous person in Ireland. Everywhere he goes he's treated like a god.

Let's assume you're right about that - what does he actually have to gain from stoking the rumours about himself and the Kinahans? He doesn't exactly need any more notoriety than he already has, so if it isn't that he's a massive troll (which we know he is already) who likes to get a rise out of people and is happy to fan false rumours like this and manipulate the press into running away with them, then what is causing him to draw attention to this, exactly?

Cyrus

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Perhaps. I'd just put him in a similar category to 4chan - extremely media savvy combined with not actually giving a bollocks about what people think of him, so his priority is trolling the press and then getting to laugh his hole off about it.

If that is the case, then it's something I absolutely applaud. Sure, maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but that's my theory anyway. My family is full of journalists, so I have a particular hatred for the "we're going to spend our entire career trawling through social media and conjuring stories based on this, without ever actually leaving the office to speak to the people involved" style of journalism. Anything which f*cks them up and shows how this modus operandi of journalism is wide open to being manipulated by clever trolls is something to celebrate, IMO, as it hastens the demise of these lazy and disastrously unreliable journalistic techniques.

any one underestimating mcgregor is foolish, he basically orchestrated that whole mayweather thing from nothing, and he has been working on it for a few years.

You may not have agreed with it or been interested in it, but he made euromillions cash off of it,

hats off to him

dulux99

To be honest I also think you're giving him far more credit than he deserves. I think he just sees himself as a king these days. He's already achieved everything he's ever wanted to achieve and he's not even 30. Wildly rich and successful, has won two world titles in the UFC, and is probably the most famous person in Ireland. Everywhere he goes he's treated like a god.

hatrickpatrick

martyos121 wrote: »

I think you’re giving him waaaay too much credit there tbh. Just my opinion.

Perhaps. I'd just put him in a similar category to 4chan - extremely media savvy combined with not actually giving a bollocks about what people think of him, so his priority is trolling the press and then getting to laugh his hole off about it.

If that is the case, then it's something I absolutely applaud. Sure, maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but that's my theory anyway. My family is full of journalists, so I have a particular hatred for the "we're going to spend our entire career trawling through social media and conjuring stories based on this, without ever actually leaving the office to speak to the people involved" style of journalism. Anything which f*cks them up and shows how this modus operandi of journalism is wide open to being manipulated by clever trolls is something to celebrate, IMO, as it hastens the demise of these lazy and disastrously unreliable journalistic techniques.

martyos121

I think you’re giving him waaaay too much credit there tbh. Just my opinion.

hatrickpatrick

martyos121 wrote: »

“Oh great, more wannabe gangster spiel from McGregor, gotta love that!”

-no-one, ever

Personally I love it, and I don't see it as "wannabe gangster spiel" at all - what IMO people are missing with Conor's courting of controversy over the ridiculous cartel story is that he's playing the media like a fiddle. If you had his troll mindset, which we all know he's always had, and the press conjured up a story about you being involved with a massive international criminal conspiracy because of who you happened to grow up living with in your area, think about it - you could either shut it down or have some massive craic seeing the media go apesh!t over everything you posted, despite offering no evidence whatsoever except anonymous quotes.

Personally, I think it's hilarious. It's like when people on 4chan manage to plant fake stories in the mainstream press - this isn't really about the cartel at all, it's about how ridiculously gullible the media has become in recent years, and how it now relies on social media for a substantial amount of its leads - rather than sending actual investigative journalists out to meet people and research the stories.

In all honesty, do you think any of these clowns reporting that McGregor is a card carrying Kinahan have actually gone out and interviewed anyone involved? The whole story about him attacking someone at a house party and then subsequently having a pub brawl was based entirely on screenshots of a feckin' WhatsApp conversation and extremely ambiguous photographs in which you literally can't make out anyone's face or even size. Iron clad case, sure.

If Conor is innocent of what he's being accused of, then I for one don't begrudge him having a bit of fun and stirring it up just to troll gullible "journalists" who see their job as simply reading Twitter and rehashing everything people write on it. That's the angle I feel people aren't looking at this from. To me at least, it has nothing to do with being a wannabe gangster, it has to do with showing off out effortless it is to cause the media to lose their f*cking minds with a simple tweet or Instagram post - and IMO that's a damn good thing, because a huge part of the whole "fake news" thing over the last year or so has been driven by the media forgetting that the internet is not supposed to be taken seriously as a reliable source of information without corroborating evidence from other sources.

"The trouble with internet quotations is the inherent difficulty in establishing their authenticity" - Abraham Lincoln. :rolleyes:

Useful.Idiot

I think that fight was just 3 rounds of Khabib moving forward and getting every one of his takedowns stuffed. All Tibau did was defend takedowns. Very little striking from either if I remember correctly, which I may not.

MagicIRL

You'll see most people scored it for Tibau. But it was a very close fight. It's definitely the closest Khabib has come to losing in his career thus far.

http://mmadecisions.com/decision/3577/Khabib-Nurmagomedov-vs-Gleison-Tibau

dulux99

MagicIRL wrote: »

dulux99 wrote: »

I saw that Instagram story that John Kavanagh had up, of Khabib getting countered by a straight left by Gleison Tibau....that fight was in 2012.

I can't really imagine Javier Mendes is studying much tape on McGregor's fight vs Steve O'Keeffe or Dave Hill in preperation for their potential scrap.

I think it's because that's the fight many people think Khabib should've lost on the score cards. Tibau also fights southpaw too.

Now I wonder why JK would be interested in that...

I'll watch that fight back this evening, I can't really remember it. All 3 judges had it 30-27 for Khabib though? Was it much closer than the scorecards depict?

MagicIRL

dulux99 wrote: »

I saw that Instagram story that John Kavanagh had up, of Khabib getting countered by a straight left by Gleison Tibau....that fight was in 2012.

I can't really imagine Javier Mendes is studying much tape on McGregor's fight vs Steve O'Keeffe or Dave Hill in preperation for their potential scrap.

I think it's because that's the fight many people think Khabib should've lost on the score cards. Tibau also fights southpaw too.

Now I wonder why JK would be interested in that...

billybonkers

dulux99 wrote: »

I saw that Instagram story that John Kavanagh had up, of Khabib getting countered by a straight left by Gleison Tibau....that fight was in 2012.

I can't really imagine Javier Mendes is studying much tape on McGregor's fight vs Steve O'Keeffe or Dave Hill in preperation for their potential scrap.

He's trolling

dulux99

I saw that Instagram story that John Kavanagh had up, of Khabib getting countered by a straight left by Gleison Tibau....that fight was in 2012.

I can't really imagine Javier Mendes is studying much tape on McGregor's fight vs Steve O'Keeffe or Dave Hill in preperation for their potential scrap.

dashoonage

I can confirm lads Conor vs Alvarez to be announced soon.

rob316

Khabib would rag doll Alvarez

JohnMc1

Gamb!t wrote: »

I can confirm lad Khabbib vs Tony to be announced soon.

IN EA's UFC games.