Official Conor McGregor thread (part 2). **Read warning in 1st post**

12gauge dave wrote: »

Can someone explain to me why the press tour is anymore difficult for him than Nate??

McGregor trains in Dublin. The entire press tour takes place in North America. Dublin is a long way from North America, meaning jet lag and disrupted training patterns for McGregor. Diaz lives in North America, and in close proximity to the location of two of those scheduled press conferences. That means no jet lag for Diaz and very little disruption to his training camp.

Also, McGregor has done a thousand times more media work than Nate in the past few years, that shît takes a toll.

EDIT: TL;DR version: what Depp said.

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martyos121 wrote: »

Letree wrote: »

I'm beginning to think this is all staged. They both wanted the mcgregor - diaz fight pulled. Its too risky a fight for conor to get beat twice by a journeyman.

Nate Diaz a journeyman?

Can't even bring myself to laugh at that, it's just too ridiculous.

Let's be honest though, I like Diaz but he's a top 10, possibly top 5 lightweight where Conor said he'd win the belt. It takes the gloss off Conor, it's not the same as losing to RDA or Lawler.

shocksy wrote: »

They are actually, they're asking him to interrupt his camp, travel all across the atlantic, do ridiculous amounts of travel and media, and then he has to make his way back to Iceland or Dublin. That severely fcuks up his camp, especially since he's only about two weeks into it at this stage. As one of the other posters stated, Diaz is relatively close to the places for the media tour so he has much less interruptions to his camp.

Also they were basically hanging him out to dry in Stockton.

Which is fine because he's a grown man and has a fair amount of confidence. But it would still be pretty draining.

shocksy wrote: »

They are actually, they're asking him to interrupt his camp, travel all across the atlantic, do rediculous amounts of travel and press, and then he has to make his way back to Iceland or Dublin, that severely fcuks up his camp especially since he's only about two weeks into it at this stage. As one of the other posters stated, Diaz is relatively close to the places for the media tour so he has much less interruptions to his camp.

He has trained in America before.
He is in camp with Gunni right now, it isn't really his own training camp at the moment in all honesty.
Diaz being close to the places on the media tour (he isn't, he is in California, which for example is pretty far away from New York) Stockon is about 4500kms from New York, Ireland is about 4900kms from new york..... not exactly worlds apart in terms of distance.
It has never bothered McGregor before nor has he looked to use it as an excuse before.
Aldo and others have had to travel and do tours promoting when they would rather not.
He has demanded this kind of exposure.
He gets paid the big bucks due to this kind of promotional work.
If he doesn't want to do it anymore, fine, just don't agree to it. Work out a deal that suits you more when the negotiations are actually taking place.
You can't shake the feeling its about money, even in his opening gambit of his statement. " I am paid to fight" " I am not paid to promote, yet" alludes to if he was being paid more he would be more willing to do this.

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Leaving all that aside, it sucks that he won't be part of the spectacle, and it will not be as special an event without him. However, life goes on, both Conor and the UFC will continue in their business relationship racking in the $$$ and this will be smoothed over and made light of in future interviews.

I am interested to see what they do for the main event now, I am delighted a feckin grudge match between two light weights at welterweight with no belt on the line and where there was such a comprehensive victory for one fighter is not going to be headlining what they want to be such a prestigious event, but they do have a big gap to fill in terms of star power. Jones would be a welcome addition, Lawlor v Diaz maybe, Diaz v GSP could be fun, Lawlor v GSP would be better

I hope Nate is kept on the card anyway, even if he drops from ME as he deserves it.

The promotion he's so fed up of is also part of what what has got him the big place media wise he has in the sport. It hasn't been just his tweets or Facebook posts that he seems to make out it is. Boxers and fighters have had to do it for years and a lot of his extra promotion is because of the 'character' he moulded himself into, the one that parts of the media like covering.

I have a lot of respect for McGregor and what he's achieved but I really don't think much of his 'statement', it just seemed a lot of mini excuses of why he lost to Diaz. Hopefully he moves away from silly bull**** like this and channels his typing's into just getting back fighting.

StringerBell wrote: »

Hanging him out to dry in Stockton?

Explain.

He did Brazil with Aldo, Aldo did Ireland, fair enough.

Nate isn't coming to Ireland.

Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »

Didn't seem to be an issue for Diaz taking the fight on 10 days notice without a fight camp at all while McGregor mouthed off about people not willing to fight.

Now he's throwing a little tantrum over his training being disrupted to promote a fight he signed up for knowing any promotional duties would mean travelling to the US. If travel was an issue he should have trained in the US. He was never not going to need to travel to promote while also training.

To use his own words he either wants to the fight to happen or he doesn't. If he does he should just get on with things if not man up and walk away instead of posting tweets about retiring like a child throwing a strop.

Some of his previous fights he was actually residing in the US doing a lot of camp there, so he didn't have the jetlag to deal with.

Letree wrote: »

He has never won a title and has 10 loses. He is a journeyman.

I'd be fairly confidant that 6 months ago you had no clue who Nathan Donald Diaz was.

Deadst4r wrote: »

He did Brazil with Aldo, Aldo did Ireland, fair enough.

Nate isn't coming to Ireland.

Out of interest, did he go to Germany for Siver? Brazil for Brandao?

I still don't see how they are hanging him out to dry in Stockton. If anything he would enjoy it! He feeds off that energy

StringerBell wrote: »

He can't pick and choose what media obligations he will fulfill though, and it isn't really Nate's fault that he happens to live in the country the sport is based mainly, all the big events anyway.

Conor has always said it is possible to stay in your home gym and be the best, reach the top of the game etc, says he is living proof you don't have to leave and go to America to be successful. If he now thinks you do, then he should surely relocate their for a few years.

He chooses to live so far away from the UFC powerbase, he can't demand special treatment for that at the same time. He has stayed in the US before for training camp so why couldn't he do it this time? As I said he is in camp with Gunni now for the fight he has upcoming, its not like its even his fight camp yet really.

How is he not in camp?

They both prepared together for 189, they were both 'in camp'.

Deadst4r wrote: »

How is he not in camp?

They both prepared together for 189, they were both 'in camp'.

I didn't say he wasn't in camp, I said it wasn't his camp. It's Gunni's for his fight against Tumenov.

My god these Trolls have little to be doing other than visiting a forum about a guy they don't even like :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

shocksy wrote: »

My god these Trolls have little to be doing other than visiting a forum about a guy they don't even like :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Who?