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

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  • #3812
    JustShon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭JustShon


    Monokne wrote: »
    Yes, it wouldn't be like him to do that.

    Well except last week when he did it.

    He could easily be trying to stir the pot.

    Dana got booed at the press conference, fans don't like Dana at the moment.

    If McGregor tweets that he's back on for UFC 200 and then Dana has to come out and deny that it exposes Dana to negative criticism from the fans again.

    I'm not saying that's definitely what's happening but it's a distinct possibility.

    Nobody can deny, with a straight face, that McGregor is a sh1t-stirrer of the highest order.


  • #3813
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    JustShon wrote: »
    He could easily be trying to stir the pot.

    Dana got booed at the press conference, fans don't like Dana at the moment.

    If McGregor tweets that he's back on for UFC 200 and then Dana has to come out and deny that it exposes Dana to negative criticism from the fans again.

    I'm not saying that's definitely what's happening but it's a distinct possibility.

    Nobody can deny, with a straight face, that McGregor is a sh1t-stirrer of the highest order.

    He's acting like a spoilt brat who isn't getting his own way.


  • #3814
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Monokne wrote: »
    Yes, it wouldn't be like him to do that.

    Well except last week when he did it.

    Yeah Conor woke up last week and randomly decided to lie to the world. That's exactly what happened.


  • #3815
    darced
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


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  • #3816
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    darced wrote: »
    What the fcuk is Conor playing at? This is farcical.

    Surely it's too bizarre to just be that.


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  • #3817
    noc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭noc1980


    He absolutely is capable of such a lie. Remember when he lied that he had a fight with Diego Sanchez scheduled?


  • #3818
    Cathy.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Cathy.C


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    He's acting like a spoilt brat who isn't getting his own way.

    He is just using a little sarcasm is all. Making it clear that the ball is FIRMLY in UFC's court. Pulling their top fighter from a card because they don't shoot a commercial or attend a presser three months before a fight is a nonsense. There are ways to discipline people in professional sports and this is not it. It's amateur hour... if all is as we are being told it is at least. Would be like the Weinsteins refusing to release a movie they've made just because a top Hollywood star decides to miss a few press junkets.


  • #3819
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    It's genius if I'm being honest. The only thing UFC could do was bring bad news again OR say the fight is on. Dana has more egg on his face. It's genius IMO but a dangerous game.


  • #3820
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    .ak wrote: »
    It's genius if I'm being honest. The only thing UFC could do was bring bad news again OR say the fight is on. Dana has more egg on his face. It's genius IMO but a dangerous game.

    Nah if he's doing that he's going too far with the mindgames. People (including me) were generally excited this morning.


  • #3821
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    I do like McGregor. Enjoy his trash talk & confidence. But the support he gets on this thread is laughable tbh. He has made 2 big claims & both been false. Doesn't want to more media partly down to losing even though I understand some of his complaints. He has lost some trust with his fans in the last week imo.


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  • #3822
    dashoonage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭dashoonage


    Its gotten to the point where I just dont care any more. I wish he would retire and let us get back to watching fighting.


  • #3823
    LaGlisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭LaGlisse


    CSF wrote: »
    Nah if he's doing that he's going too far with the mindgames. People (including me) were generally excited this morning.

    Yep. In danger of becoming The Tedious Conor McGregor if he keeps this up. They called his bluff,game over,time to accept reality. Was genuinely excited this morn,now I don't want to hear any more of this ****


  • #3824
    Lukker-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    dashoonage wrote: »
    Its gotten to the point where I just dont care any more. I wish he would retire and let us get back to watching fighting.

    Or maybe you could just stop following the story and you know... Watch the fights?


  • #3825
    dashoonage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭dashoonage


    Lukker- wrote: »
    Or maybe you could just stop following the story and you know... Watch the fights?

    its kind of hard not to see updates of it in the mma world at the moment isnt it!


  • #3826
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    LaGlisse wrote: »
    Yep. In danger of becoming The Tedious Conor McGregor if he keeps this up. They called his bluff,game over,time to accept reality. Was genuinely excited this morn,now I don't want to hear any more of this ****

    Let's assume this is what he has done, I think a better approach would have been to give a public ultimatum that he'd be completely pulling himself out of the fight and give up his training camp if it wasn't sorted within say 48 hours.

    What's gone on today has heaped the pressure on Conor rather than Dana.


  • #3827
    zpehtsfd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭zpehtsfd


    Conor is trying his best to convince the world that he wants to fight Diaz @ UFC 200. He's not ready yet and the "retired" stunt was his way of getting out of the re-match for now. He has to put on a brave face especially after comment like RDA's "running away from Diaz" at the presser.

    Dana is going to stand firm here. imo.


  • #3828
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    dashoonage wrote: »
    its kind of hard not to see updates of it in the mma world at the moment isnt it!

    You've the option to pay as much attention to it as you wish. Posting in threads on it probably doesn't help you zone out from it.


  • #3829
    Cathy.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Cathy.C


    Lets not forget folks. Conor was on the God damn dole not so long ago and just dreaming of making something of himself. Running his mouth and working hard got him where he is. Neither one without the other would have done zip and so who the hell is anyone to judge him on what he should and should not be saying. The man is a total and utter legend, even if he never fights again.

    Whenever I see Conor say something harsh I think of when he said something harsh on this forum and someone called him on it and his reply was:
    NOTORIOUS. wrote: »
    I know man im just jokin around its great to see the irish scene buzzing with lots of young fighters COME UP THE IRISH


  • #3830
    zpehtsfd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭zpehtsfd


    .ak wrote: »
    It's genius if I'm being honest. The only thing UFC could do was bring bad news again OR say the fight is on. Dana has more egg on his face. It's genius IMO but a dangerous game.

    Jaysus Dana really doesn't give a phuck if Conor is not at UFC 200. It's business as usual. Lots of $$$ to be made with Conor in the near future.

    There is a fine line between genius and madness. Conor has crossed that line with the latest tweet.


  • #3831
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Cathy.C wrote: »
    He is just using a little sarcasm is all. Making it clear that the ball is FIRMLY in UFC's court. Pulling their top fighter from a card because they don't shoot a commercial or attend a presser three months before a fight is a nonsense. There are ways to discipline people in professional sports and this is not it. It's amateur hour... if all is as we are being told it is at least. Would be like the Weinsteins refusing to release a movie they've made just because a top Hollywood star decides to miss a few press junkets.

    Of course the ball is in their court. They own the company and have stated over and over again that McGregor won't be fighting at 200. All McGregor is doing now is winding up his own fans.


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  • #3832
    gallag
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭gallag


    Haha, everyone thought Conor was taking the Diaz beat down really well! Turns out no! Diaz broke Conor!!!


  • #3833
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,479 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    gallag wrote: »
    Haha, everyone thought Conor was taking the Diaz beat down really well! Turns out no! Diaz broke Conor!!!

    Wut


  • #3834
    Cathy.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Cathy.C


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Of course the ball is in their court. They own the company and have stated over and over again that McGregor won't be fighting at 200. All McGregor is doing now is winding up his own fans.

    The point is, at the presser Dana kept pointing to an empty chair, as if somehow Conor choosing not to be there was the be all and end all of the matter. It might very well be but imo what Conor is trying to get across with his tweets is, that it doesn't have to be, that he still is willing to fight and that if there is no fight it's 100% the UFC's fault.

    Lorenzo most likely won't budge on the issue, probably more about pride now than money but like I said just above, who is anyone to question what Conor says when what he has said since day one is responsible for his success. Not saying people can't have opinions, course they can, but surely he is best positioned to judge what he should and should not be saying right now. Maybe Dave Meltzer is spot on and this goes back further than we think and there is somewhat of a stalemate between Lorenzo and Conor.

    If that is the case this could all just be him making sure Lorenzo knows just how much of a mistake he is making by pulling him off the card and if that is the case, who can blame him. I remember seeing the Ultimate Fighter where Conor actually said 'We' when speaking about the UFC and thinking the powers that be may not like that one bit. It was just Conor messing, but perhaps Lorenzo seen stuff like that and has wanted to take him down a peg or too ever since and seen this situation as the perfect time to do that.

    Either way. I think Conor should be cut some slack. Lets just see what happens before we start saying he's a spoiled brat etc etc.


  • #3835
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAAWEqM9JJ8

    just started


  • #3836
    Cathy.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Cathy.C


    Kavanagh:
    "Haven't spoke to Conor since he Tweeted that tweet this morning"

    How bloody convenient :rolleyes:


  • #3837
    RedemptionZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭RedemptionZ


    This is bizarre.


  • #3838
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Cathy.C wrote: »
    Kavanagh:



    How bloody convenient :rolleyes:

    obviously not, they split up cause John got on a plane for Ireland, conor headed stateside! ;)


  • #3839
    darced
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


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  • #3840
    Cathy.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Cathy.C


    Depp wrote: »
    obviously not, they split up cause John got on a plane for Ireland, conor headed stateside! ;)

    Nah, defo Dublin bound.

    What I meant was that John knew all bloody day that he was coming on this show. He knew the questions that he would asked, this morning's tweet top of the agenda. He was even Tweeting jokes about it and yet he couldn't, since 7am this morning, get in touch with Conor to find out why he Tweeted what he did??

    Don't believe that for a second.


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  • #3841
    price690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭price690


    Cathy.C wrote: »
    The point is, at the presser Dana kept pointing to an empty chair, as if somehow Conor choosing not to be there was the be all and end all of the matter. It might very well be but imo what Conor is trying to get across with his tweets is, that it doesn't have to be, that he still is willing to fight and that if there is no fight it's 100% the UFC's fault.

    Lorenzo most likely won't budge on the issue, probably more about pride now than money but like I said just above, who is anyone to question what Conor says when what he has said since day one is responsible for his success. Not saying people can't have opinions, course they can, but surely he is best positioned to judge what he should and should not be saying right now. Maybe Dave Meltzer is spot on and this goes back further than we think and there is somewhat of a stalemate between Lorenzo and Conor.

    If that is the case this could all just be him making sure Lorenzo knows just how much of a mistake he is making by pulling him off the card and if that is the case, who can blame him. I remember seeing the Ultimate Fighter where Conor actually said 'We' when speaking about the UFC and thinking the powers that be may not like that one bit. It was just Conor messing, but perhaps Lorenzo seen stuff like that and has wanted to take him down a peg or too ever since and seen this situation as the perfect time to do that.

    Either way. I think Conor should be cut some slack. Lets just see what happens before we start saying he's a spoiled brat etc etc.

    Jaysus you are a superfan aren't ya?

    Lorenzo is Conor's boss. They are not equals. The sport of MMA does not begin and end with Conor McGregor. These guys have been very successful in their strategy of remaining in control and not bending to the demands of their marquee fighters.

    The Conor can do no wrong rubbish is equally as nauseating as the people who constantly slate him.

    As for your comment about how he was on the dole only 3 years ago and how we should be applauding him. I couldn't give a toss about his personal finances or circumstances. I just care about watching good fights.

    If you want to relate to the working class man with this dole nonsense, then refusing to carry out promotion (that he signed up to when signing on for his multi million dollar contract) of an event that will make him even richer is in the least going back on his word, and at worst biting the hand that feeds him.


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