Conor McGregor

But Mayweather actually came from a slum, with a nightmarish childhood. Same as Tyson.

Never been a fan of McGregor but he was good for a time on the UFC but now with money and the constant bad behavior, it's all become WWE for him.

He'll make a tonne more cash doing this in the US, but the reality with him is that he is a spent force and also now looking like a right plonker.

You get the feeling that something karma-like is coming to him very soon unless he changes his ways.

All McGregor has done is make a huge percentage of those inbred tinkers that follow him believe they can fight like him when they have a few drinks on board. I was in Boston on a work trip when he fought that German guy and I remember hundreds of those scumbags trying to start fights with locals and then turning on each other. Maddest thing I’d ever seen. Flying 5,000 miles away to get drunk and fight a fellow illiterate tosser from Crumlin with your top off in the middle of Faneuil Hall isn’t much fun. The BPD didn’t arrest anyone, they just got their nightsticks out and beat a few coked up topless muppets on the back and the ribs. Not the type of thing you want to get when it’s -5 degrees.

There have been countless stories of lads getting seriously injured outside pubs, nightclubs and chippers up and down the country by so called hard men trying to mimic their hero McGregor. Trash talk with the classic “you’ll do nuttn” line thrown in is always a guarantee.

I meant in terms of ability. I'm not saying that he's in any way a good person.

He didn't avoid any real world consequences from the courts by paying anyone off. He appeared in court, plead guilty and paid a fine.

That's pretty typical outcome of a case like this in Ireland. I'm not saying it's ideal but it's nothing to do with brown envelopes or pay-offs.

We all know there are much worse cases before our courts where people are walking away with fines. It's nothing to do with McGregor and everything to do with how our courts systems operate generally.

The guy he punched would have been paid off to avoid further media coverage from a civil case after the criminal matter was dealt with. It had no affect on the actual matter before a judge as an assault offence.

You think everyone who manages to fight professionally is rich? In addition to boxing, his dad was a drug dealer who was shot while trying to use Floyd Jr as a human shield, and his mother was a crack addict. His and McGregor's upbringings are worlds apart.

Pay off or have some goons intimidate the guy into taking the money and dropping the charges.