Cant believe the fight hasn't be cancelled or confirmed going ahead yet
I'm not sure his brand needs him to pretend to be fighting. He's making a lot more money from non-fight aspect. Seems likely that moving into a promotor role will be the plan post-fighter career
I doubt that would have any impact on anything.
Reddit is a mixed bag. Lots of wafflers who don't know how drugs/testing works. I highly doubt he's fail a drug test seeing as he's been tested all year for PEDs.
I'd say it's most likely an injury but if that's all it is why won't they just announce that?
Maybe they're waiting to see if he'll recover in time or trying to find a replacement. Either way I don't see the fight happening now at least not this year. I think McGregor would happily go off and fight Jake Paul or go to BKFC but there's no way the UFC release him from his deal while there's still so much money to be made from him.
There was something on Reddit (I know, I know) about him advising that he would fail a drugs test. That honestly sounds more to be the case if anything.
Or, as I have always believed, he was never going to fight. He does this for attention to sell something or for theatrical gain, he will never win again, hold a belt, none of that. It is more likely that he will fight Jake Paul at this rate.
what he tripped and fell into a bag of the devils dandruff?!
Dana said there was an accident in sparring. If you believe that, you will believe anything.
While you are correct, he has not trained the same or not lived the life of a fighter, It happened pre Khabib , Khabib fought a Conor that was drinking & whatever else during camp , not showing up certain days of training & a mess in his private life, , It was post Floyd that he went of the rails ,
Eddie was the last MMA fight where you had Conor the true MMA fighter & peak McGregor, he never was the same again after that fight, The boxing made him so much money that things where never the same,
I do think he will fight again, his ego won't let him walk away just yet, but he will never be the same again in the cage not even close ,
HAae it on good word camp was going great & he hurt a shin , hence why he went on the beer the other week, he knew the fight wasn't happing just yet,
Can somebody go down to the Black forge and see if McGregor's ok?
Michael Chandler shares cryptic post amid rumours of Conor McGregor fight cancellation
https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/michael-chandler-shares-cryptic-post-amid-rumours-of-conor-mcgregor-fight-cancellation/a870515904.html
I find this stage of the story to be most interesting, Conor developed a persona that paid dividends, enhanced it and expanded on it along the way, one could argue that where the persona ends and Conor starts is not clear, but retirement in theory should start the process to set the 2 apart if there is no further need for it, maybe the 2 have merged and this is what we are left with, but at some stage he has to mature and grow out of it, I know many men including myself to not start the maturing process until in their 30's and this could still happen, but I think he does have to officially retire first before maturing starts.
Blue in the face from telling people he has no intention to fight, he's done since the khabib fight. Retiring wouldn't be great for his brands so he's just giving the illusion he's active.
sounds like it’s being pulled, any fight video with McGregor for this fight went private on YouTube as well.
Or…he never intended to fight at all.
what ever came from the time Artem was looking for a cut from the whiskey? Seems to have disappeared
Cheers for the information
Has to be an injury , Explains why he went on the piss the other night he knew he isn't making the fight date ,
The total sale was worth up to $600m. Meaning the entire value of the company sale, not what Conor was paid specifically Joe his %.
He made an estimated $120-150m plus presumably some sort of ongoing royalty payment.
McGregor released a very generic statement about the cancellation.
https://x.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1797715477923348940
If anything, this is exactly why he shouldn't be fighting, or at least pretending to fight. He has no need for it at all.
i knew that, I had seen it reported he received approx 600 million for it.
He sold the whiskey business a few years ago.
Would he be a billionaire yet? The whiskey business seemed extremely profitable
I'd like to laugh at that Jake Paul theory and say "good one"....but would anyone be surprised if that happened?
They've already smashed the gate. 20 million plus from ticket sales alone never mind the PPV.
There will be a lot of pressure on him to show up. Good thing this was a free ticket event.
prob should have held it in the black forge he still would be there from night before
No way this goes ahead if it does that degenerate is going to be in big trouble on the night
Following on from the news of Tyson having to withdraw from his fight I think it is safe to assume McGregor is going to fight Jake Paul.
On a serious note though, one would imagine it won't be long until the actual fight is postponed/cancelled.
Anyone on the whatchats know who or what he's done this time?
Well moot topic now as it has been postponed!
Unfortunately Ticketmaster doesn't allow transfer or sale of these tickets. This could lead to a number of empty seats and a lot of fans missing out. They should open up more sections in the arena.
If anyone has two tickets spare for the press conference I'd like them.
Interested in going just to experience the sheer carnage it will probably be.
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