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Conor McGregor thread (MMA Talk Only - Read 1st Post Before Posting)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    You must not know much about Hollywood. That film, there is no way it will be completed and released in time for then. It will be the Oscars at start of 2024 before we get to see Conor accepting the golden gong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,922 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    I’d imagine his role will be very very minor, like a thug in a bar that hits an old man or something and Jake gylenhall steps in blah blah. He’ll have his scenes done in a day



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,690 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Its a leading role apparently, my best guess from seen the original is he plays the gang boss of the town. It a straight to Prime/Netflix thing anyway so will be inevitably shite.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I hope the Hollywood scriptwriters include the line for him - “That’s a bleedin rapid timepiece ya got ‘dere bud ‘were dya geh it??”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭erlichbachman


    Acting is an interesting road to go down, though I'm sceptical whether Conor has any ability in that area. Ok he can put on a show, has a good sense of humour, and is very entertaining but acting requires the ability to come across naturally which would I don't think we've ever seen from Conor, but I guess some formal training would be acquired.

    I think we will see a more mellow Conor as he ages, and I think acting could humble him a bit, could be the exact thing he needs to emotionally grow in the future.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,426 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭erlichbachman


    I don't think playing yourself actually qualifies as acting!!


    It seems even that is somewhat unnatural



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,490 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Didn't Cathal Pendred try his hand at acting as well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,426 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    It's not the playing-himself part that doesn't qualify the above as acting.

    If you can be so unnatural when your only job is to just be yourself........... cant wait to see him chewing the scenery with Donnie Darko!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭dashoonage


    I wonder how many bottles of Proper Muck will be placed in the film.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭EOQRTL


    He's been acting the prick for years so the film will be a doddle for him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I agree Conor will probably play a baddie in this film, and I think it will stand up there with the other great film baddies like Marlon Brando in The Godfather, Daniel Day Lewis in There will be blood, and Christopher Waltz in Inglorious Basterds.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Gamb!t




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,545 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    He was in an episode of Ray Donovan. Look, I'm not going to say he was bad, but it he'd have more success in kickboxing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭dashoonage


    well seeing as he is an elite level striker of course he would have more success.... jaysus ! have you not heard of the flying fists of pendred.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,545 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    I hear they're so fast he can throw 4 jabs and it looks like one very mediocre strike. And while it appears to do no damage whatsoever to his opponent, there's a savage delayed reaction an hour or two later.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Some good training sessions being put in around the Belaric’s in between all the various big birthday celebrations and benders. Looks like a return announcement isn’t too far off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,490 ✭✭✭✭Ush1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭Naked Lepper


    they need to get roddy and the boys back over to the mac mansion in vegas to really get focused again on training



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,922 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Yea surround him with more yes men. McGregor isn’t top tier anymore. He’s a has been



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,953 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Its done & its over, He could be 35 before he fights again his prime years in MMA where completed wasted post Eddie which will be nearly be 7 years ago when he fights again ,Yes 7 years 2016 to 2203

    He'll be back to old, 1 peg leg, 2 weight divisions to heavy ( FW Is his best fighting weigh) , stiff as aboard ,Aura gone , willingness to get true proper camp is gone let alone to go through the dark parts of a fight,

    Its been over for a while & he knows it ,



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    Not to mention his potential opponents are the exact opposite of all that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭ElBastardo1


    If it shows one thing its that no matter how head strong people are, money changes things. He said it countless times 'I've been told, don't neglect your training'. He swore he wouldn't fall into that trap, and he did, he fell harder than most. He's posting picture of himself training and beating up sparring partners, but we all know these lads aren't elite level, they are body bags for him to look good. His fight against Cerrone was pathetic, poor Don was washed up and knocked out before he stepped into the ring. Poirier showed how much he had grown since there first contest. Drink and drugs destroy fitness levels, he'll never win a belt and I doubt he'd compete with anyone ranked.

    Now we can all sit back and watch Ian Garry do the same thing. Except Garry has gone to the UFC earlier and isn't as polished as Mcg was. He become too big for his boots before he'd even won the cage warriors belt. Best thing TK and CF did was to walk away from him, it will hurt them the potential money they could have made, but at least they had a back bone, not like 'Coach' Kavanagh who would corner McGregor in a brawl in Mount joy if the commission was paid.

    oh, and Cathal Pendred seems like a really decent fella, not a great fighter (especially in the UFC) but one of the cringiest actors ever. I stopped watching Ray Donovan for fear of seeing his McGregor impression again, and the few other things he was in nearly made me hide behind the sofa.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Can I assume we've all seen that of ALL of the 'active' UFC fighters (not signed after August 1), that in 2022 Conor McGregor is the only to have not been tested by USADA?

    UFC paying them a wedge/telling them to leave him alone?

    Not a good look either way



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,690 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Masvidal is the only fight that makes sense and would sell well, he'll be savaged in the lightweight division as well. Wasted his prime years in MMA.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,889 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Mad that he could be 35 the next time he fights.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    He made money that has set him and his family up for life beyond his MMA career. He wasted nothing



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭Still Ill


    From a sporting perspective he wasted a lot. If you'd been told the night of the Alvarez fight how little he'd fight in the following six years and how poor the results would be there's no other way of looking at it than a waste and a huge disappointment. But yeah.. He's very rich alright.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,545 ✭✭✭xtal191




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    His career is always going to be "what could have been". Of course he achieved a lot, but he stopped pushing during his prime years. He could have been in the GOAT discussion, but we'll never know now.



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