Conor McGregor

He was a good fighter, and if he had stayed on track he could have been a great fighter. After the Mayweather fight he started to decline rapidly, money, fame, buying in to his own hype and drugs, have all contributed to his free fall from grace.

I admit I used to be a fan, I admired his confidence, and his ability to work under pressure, and he mostly backed up his words with action. The build up to the Mayweather fight was when I started to dislike him, all the forced smack talk etc. His actions since have shown him up to be an unstable scumbag, the only difference between him and the hooded feral teens you see terrorising the streets of Dublin is money.

narcissist be narcissing!

lucky punch that was planned for weeks ?

No-one was banned from the MMA for simply speaking negatively about him.

However, a few posters who shall remain nameless were banned because they were obsessively posting about how much of a knacker/scumbag/lowlife he was non-stop, contributing absolutely zero to actual discussion about upcoming fights, previous fights, fighting camps, basically anything to do with fighting..... you know the actual point of the MMA forum.

After repeated warnings by mods to give the same regurgitated crap a rest and focus on the actual event/sport, but continuing on regardless, they were eventually banned.

I've said negative things about him countless times in the MMA forum amidst actual discussion about particular fight and or/fights, so have tons of people, and none of us were banned either. There's no great conspiracy to protect the great and mighty Conor.

Go to any sports forum and invade a pile of threads with a singular, repeated focus on how X athlete is a lowlife scumbag without contributing anything to the discussion of the actual sport in question and you won't get too far either.

Personally I think there's a few people have an unhealthy, borderline obsession with their hatred of the man. I don't like McGregor. I enjoy watching his fights. Outside of that I think he's an increasingly embarrassing clown and I couldn't give a **** what he's up to, what stupid things he's doing, what he's shoving up his nose or who he's riding, what money he's making.

I just. Don't. Care. I don't get why the people who hate him have to invade every thread about him and make these crazy accusations like "He was never a good fighter he just had 15 fluke fights in a row" or "you will be banned from the mma forum if you dare criticise their idol".....or claim everyone that enjoys watching him fight is some sort of super-fan who blindly endorses everything he does.

That same video of the "fans" above his been posted by this poster about 20 different times as if it's supposed to prove something. Look, no-one cares. Move on with your life, let the hate go.

It only annoys me because as a massive MMA fan, completely independent of the fact that McGregor is an undisputed world champion dickhead, he was an amazing fighter and he has an incredible legacy, and has done huge amounts for the growth of the sport.

Pretending he hasn't, and was in fact never good at all, is just complete embarrassing childishness.

He was and still is an average fighter that managed some impressive wins.

Personally I think he could have been so much better had be moved camp and trained win a legit facility rather than sticking with SBG. No slight against the gym but he wasn't training with the top tier of opponent that he would have got in the states.

Over the years has his stand up, wrestling, grapping, take down defense improved much... no not really.

When you look at other fighters like Holloway and Poirier - if you compare their recent fights to 5-6 years ago the improvement is clear to see. No so much with McGregor which is a shame as he could have been remembered for so much more.

A certain poster, that will remain nameless, seriously needs to get out of McGregors arse. If you cared about the sport as much as you think you do, you wouldn't be lauding this dirt bags behaviour around the sport.

He's belittled the sport. Not enhanced it.

Saw some footage of his elegant pals swanning through Dublin airport VIP terminal with bottles of his whiskey onto a chartered plane to head to the Vatican christening. Can only imagine how chaotic it must have been for the cabin crew on that flight and any other person waiting in the VIP terminal for their flight! 😷

Ah now, that's not quite true. You could have 100 posts in a row talking about how how great a businessman he is and great promotion for his whiskey etc. That was all grand.

But if someone dropped in with an innocent "I tried the whiskey at the weekend and it wasn't nice" then they'd get banned for their post not being about MMA 😁