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Official Conor McGregor thread (part 5) *Read Mod Note in Post 1*

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    They're all the same. The ref saved him.

    Floyd didn't KO him the way McGregor didn't KO Alvarez, Mendes etc. Pedantic nonsense.
    What are you on about? None of the examples you listed above were KO's. They're all TKO's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,532 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    dulux99 wrote: »
    They're all the same. The ref saved him.

    Floyd didn't KO him the way McGregor didn't KO Alvarez, Mendes etc. Pedantic nonsense.
    What are you on about? None of the examples you listed above were KO's. They're all TKO's.

    That's the point. If you don't think McGregor knocked out Alvarez, you're an idiot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    dulux99 wrote: »
    They're all the same. The ref saved him.

    Floyd didn't KO him the way McGregor didn't KO Alvarez, Mendes etc. Pedantic nonsense.
    What are you on about? None of the examples you listed above were KO's. They're all TKO's.

    That's the point. If you don't think McGregor knocked out Alvarez, you're an idiot.
    dulux99 wrote: »
    They're all the same. The ref saved him.

    Floyd didn't KO him the way McGregor didn't KO Alvarez, Mendes etc. Pedantic nonsense.
    What are you on about? None of the examples you listed above were KO's. They're all TKO's.

    That's the point. If you don't think McGregor knocked out Alvarez, you're an idiot.
    This is a stupid argument. You're trying to say all KO's are the same. They're not. McGregor dropped Alvarez numerous times en route to a TKO. He dropped Aldo with 1 punch and KO'd him unconscious. This is the difference between a KO and TKO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,532 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    Right, so even though TKO stands for Technical Knockout, you don't think McGregor KOed him. Grand job.

    Whether it's a KO or TKO, it's still the other person getting knocked out. There is nowhere, in either boxing or MMA, that defines a knockout as knocking someone unconscious.

    McGregor knocked out Alvarez.
    Floyd knocked out McGregor.

    I'm done with this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    Right, so even though TKO stands for Technical Knockout, you don't think McGregor KOed him. Grand job.

    Whether it's a KO or TKO, it's still the other person getting knocked out. There is nowhere, in either boxing or MMA, that defines a knockout as knocking someone unconscious.

    McGregor knocked out Alvarez.
    Floyd knocked out McGregor.

    I'm done with this.

    The only person Conor "knocked out" in the UFC was Aldo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    Right, so even though TKO stands for Technical Knockout, you don't think McGregor KOed him. Grand job.

    Whether it's a KO or TKO, it's still the other person getting knocked out. There is nowhere, in either boxing or MMA, that defines a knockout as knocking someone unconscious.

    McGregor knocked out Alvarez.
    Floyd knocked out McGregor.

    I'm done with this.

    It's called a knock-out. It's a fairly self descriptive term. To knock someone out is to separate them from consciousness, ie Ngannou on Overeem. If the ref needs to step in then this is a technical knockout. There's a reason why fights are ruled this way....but I guess all the referees are wrong and you're right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,532 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    So when a boxer's record is read out, and they call out how many of his wins are by knockout, they don't count TKOs then, no? Again, grand job.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Yous are all mad lads its christmas relax a bit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    So when a boxer's record is read out, and they call out how many of his wins are by knockout, they don't count TKOs then, no? Again, grand job.

    Yeah I don't get this. Whether it's a mark hunt walk off or a swarming ref jumping in because the other guy is in LA LA land it's a knockout.
    Even when someone is turtling and barely covering up, they're out of it, it's just primal instinct at that stage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    KO's and TKO's are lumped together mainly for promotional purposes. It's easier for the UFC to say Conor has 18 KO's rather than get into a breakdown of TKO's.

    Saying they are always the same thing, though, is crazy. Sometimes they are! In fact, sometimes a TKO can be even worse than a KO. Chris Weidman nearly pounded Mark Munoz's head into oblivion before Josh Rosenthal jumped in.

    Generally a KO is an objective fact, whereas a TKO is always a subjective opinion (either from the ref, the doctor, the fighter or his/her corner). When the subjective opinion is a bad one, it can be anything from attempted murder to the furthest thing from a knockout.

    Objectively, Alistair Overeem was unconscious the other week and could not continue to fight. There's not much room for opinion when the guy is on the floor asleep with his toes curled up, stiff as a board.

    Subjectively, Herb Dean decided Homasi couldn't continue, despite it being obvious to literally everyone else that he could. Fair play to the UFC for re-booking the fight for next week but it still goes down in the record books as a knockout loss.

    To say both of them are automatically the same thing (a knockout) is a bit nuts when one guy was asleep and the other guy was busy protesting a stupid refereeing decision.

    We get dozens - if not hundreds - of fights every year in MMA where a trigger-happy ref stops the contest far too early and fighters get awarded dubious "knockout" victories while their irate opponent remonstrates about it. Even Conor started immediately arguing with Robert Byrd as soon as he stepped in. He was saying "ah ref!" straight away.

    Take the Chiesa-Lauzon fight. That's in the record books as a knockout (TKO) win for Joe Lauzon but in reality Chiesa was grand, he could have fought on and won - other than the doctor deciding for his health he needed stitches for the cut on his eyebrow and called the fight off.

    Nobody (including Joe Lauzon) would say Chiesa was knocked out but, again, the record books say he was.

    I suppose it's semantics but I do think it's silly to lump all KO's and TKO's in as "knockouts" because it devalues the meaning of the word. What Francis Ngannou did to Overeem was something special and doesn't deserve to be in the same category as Michael Chiesa getting a bad cut on his eyebrow or a ref jumping in too soon.

    The closest Conor came to being knocked out remains the Diaz 1 contest because Nate was able to do something Floyd (or anyone else) couldn't do - wobble him with a punch.

    I do wonder how long Conor's granite chin will last. He relies on it far less in recent years but there was a long stretch at featherweight he was just walking through punches. It's actually crazy re-watching the Siver and Mendes fights how much they were able to hit him cleanly.

    Conor's 4 clean KO's remain Aldo, Buchinger, O' Keefe and Doherty because they all went for a momentary snooze. The worst of the lot was probably the O' Keefe fight, they were brutal elbows and fair play to Marc Goddard for stopping it because a lesser ref lets him take way more damage.

    TL;DR - Floyd isn't even counting it as a knockout.

    http://mmajunkie.com/2017/09/floyd-mayweather-conor-mcgregor-brain-damage

    "Floyd Mayweather says he didn't knock out Conor McGregor to protect him from brain damage"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭akelly02


    KO's and TKO's are lumped together mainly for promotional purposes. It's easier for the UFC to say Conor has 18 KO's rather than get into a breakdown of TKO's.

    Saying they are always the same thing, though, is crazy. Sometimes they are! In fact, sometimes a TKO can be even worse than a KO. Chris Weidman nearly pounded Mark Munoz's head into oblivion before Josh Rosenthal jumped in.

    Generally a KO is an objective fact, whereas a TKO is always a subjective opinion (either from the ref, the doctor, the fighter or his/her corner). When the subjective opinion is a bad one, it can be anything from attempted murder to the furthest thing from a knockout.

    Objectively, Alistair Overeem was unconscious the other week and could not continue to fight. There's not much room for opinion when the guy is on the floor asleep with his toes curled up, stiff as a board.

    Subjectively, Herb Dean decided Homasi couldn't continue, despite it being obvious to literally everyone else that he could. Fair play to the UFC for re-booking the fight for next week but it still goes down in the record books as a knockout loss.

    To say both of them are automatically the same thing (a knockout) is a bit nuts when one guy was asleep and the other guy was busy protesting a stupid refereeing decision.

    We get dozens - if not hundreds - of fights every year in MMA where a trigger-happy ref stops the contest far too early and fighters get awarded dubious "knockout" victories while their irate opponent remonstrates about it. Even Conor started immediately arguing with Robert Byrd as soon as he stepped in. He was saying "ah ref!" straight away.

    Take the Chiesa-Lauzon fight. That's in the record books as a knockout (TKO) win for Joe Lauzon but in reality Chiesa was grand, he could have fought on and won - other than the doctor deciding for his health he needed stitches for the cut on his eyebrow and called the fight off.

    Nobody (including Joe Lauzon) would say Chiesa was knocked out but, again, the record books say he was.

    I suppose it's semantics but I do think it's silly to lump all KO's and TKO's in as "knockouts" because it devalues the meaning of the word. What Francis Ngannou did to Overeem was something special and doesn't deserve to be in the same category as Michael Chiesa getting a bad cut on his eyebrow or a ref jumping in too soon.

    The closest Conor came to being knocked out remains the Diaz 1 contest because Nate was able to do something Floyd (or anyone else) couldn't do - wobble him with a punch.

    I do wonder how long Conor's granite chin will last. He relies on it far less in recent years but there was a long stretch at featherweight he was just walking through punches. It's actually crazy re-watching the Siver and Mendes fights how much they were able to hit him cleanly.

    Conor's 4 clean KO's remain Aldo, Buchinger, O' Keefe and Doherty because they all went for a momentary snooze. The worst of the lot was probably the O' Keefe fight, they were brutal elbows and fair play to Marc Goddard for stopping it because a lesser ref lets him take way more damage.

    TL;DR - Floyd isn't even counting it as a knockout.

    http://mmajunkie.com/2017/09/floyd-mayweather-conor-mcgregor-brain-damage

    "Floyd Mayweather says he didn't knock out Conor McGregor to protect him from brain damage"


    Disagree Floyd was going to knock him out with a couple more punches imo

    also i was at the Siver fight and i cant remember Siver landing at all. Mendes i remember him taking unneccessary smacks alright


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,532 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    Good second captains podcast discussing McGregor yesterday with an excerpt from their live shows a couple of weeks ago. Ken Early, Laura Kennedy and Ewan McKenna.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    He’s gone into overdrive with pictures of himself with Dee lately.

    The PR machine has kicked into gear. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,902 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Paully D wrote: »
    He’s gone into overdrive with pictures of himself with Dee lately.

    The PR machine has kicked into gear. :pac:

    Conor Jr. trolling :pac:

    436832.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    On the Siver fight - don't think I've seen a more one-sided bout tbh, don't recall Siver landing much of note at all. Mendes he was cracked a bit and got cut up on his back.

    Somebody pointed out recently during the Aldo Holloway fight that Max took a full uppercut from Jose, and clapped it off - they stated that the height difference is what helps here, Mendes or a shorter fighter than Max or Conor takes that hit and it's quite possible it's lights out. Height advantage means that even if landing flush, an opponent mightn't generate as much power behind the punch.

    I think that might be what we saw with McGregor at FW - he was bigger, he was getting caught but perhaps he wasn't getting hit with the full torque of his opponents punches? Just a thought.

    The Diaz punch that stunned him I'll always remember - I'd been wondering when he'd get hit and wobbled like he'd done to so many fellas at FW, the minute he got wobbled you were concerned because of how well Diaz plays those situations - he'll talk shít and continue to light you up, he forced McGregor to look for a take down, which wasn't the answer, but he'd had enough on his feet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,532 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    *Waits for the "he wasn't hurt, he was just gassed out so it looked like he was hurt” comments*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    he wasn't hurt, he was just gassed out so it looked like he was hurt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    D'Agger wrote: »
    On the Siver fight - don't think I've seen a more one-sided bout tbh, don't recall Siver landing much of note at all. Mendes he was cracked a bit and got cut up on his back.

    Don't get me wrong, Conor demolished him but, still, Siver landed some nice shots. Conor ate them and kept walking forward. Here's a handful that landed clean:

    3:29 - Siver takes Conor off his base with a powerful inside leg kick.
    4:36 - Beautiful left hand counter lands plum on Conor's chin.
    5:16 - Again drops him with a power low kick.
    5:31 - Liver kick lands clean enough, maybe partially blocked.
    5:41 - Left hand lands clean.
    7:05 - Right hand counter snaps Conor's head back.
    7:51 - Right hand counter lands.
    9:08 - Left hand counter lands.





    Obviously it's a fight so he's bound to get hit but I feel his defence tightened up substantially after the Diaz 1 loss. In the early rounds against Nate (rematch) and Eddie, you'd be struggling to pick out any meaningful shots landing on him.

    I think he didn't respect the power of the featherweights so figured he could just take the smacks and keep moving forward but against Nate he was badly hurt for the first time in his career so he adopted a very risk-averse approach since then.

    I'm also very surprised more fighters don't study this fight. Eddie Alvarez opened up with a power low-kick in the first round against Conor and took him off his base but then abandoned it for some unknown reason. Siver is about the only guy off the top of my head to consistently throw the power inside-kick to Conor's lead-leg and it had fantastic results - twice taking him off his base, and led Conor to switch orthodox at one point.

    Easier said than done I suppose but if Siver can manage to do it you'd have to suspect someone like Barboza could execute it as well.


  • Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭MarkJD


    Pretty sure that unknown reason is that Conor checked the third leg kick and Eddie didnt like it, and sure then he was on queer street not long later!


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    dulux99 wrote: »
    They couldn't even advertise it that Floyd had a punchers chance, it took Floyd 30 mins of punches only to put McGregor away first time around and he didn't even KO him.

    If Conor v Floyd mma fight happens, Conor will let him survive in the same way Floyd did during the boxing fight. There will be an agreement before hand imo, Conor is all about the $$$$

    edit: what I am saying is UFC is turning into WWE lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,925 ✭✭✭pudzey101


    https://www.mmamania.com/2017/12/22/16812948/conor-mcgregor-opens-up-about-fighting-career-there-is-still-a-lot-left-in-me-ufc-mma

    Conor opens up on his future about damage he has taken to the brain ( not from coke/drink) and there "is still alot left in me"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    They need to strip him. He has no intention of fighting any time soon.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    They need to strip him. He has no intention of fighting any time soon.

    It won’t accomplish anything now because neither will the interim champ. Unless they make Khabib Barboza interim champ


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    El cucuy's xmas wishes to mcnugget :pac:

    https://twitter.com/TonyFergusonXT/status/944123255907954688


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Hes a big cringe machine.


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    ASOT wrote: »
    Hes a big cringe machine.

    you can't blame him really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭ASOT


    glasso wrote: »
    you can't blame him really.

    Cant blame him for being cringey? I compleatly agree about the defend or vacate but mcnugget, potatoe etc are 12 year old stuff. Cringey as ****.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    0G4kAb9dwnS1VVdNi9oza7VcnDc=.gif

    Love me some el cucuy mcnugget bashing :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    Reads as if he had too much eggnog


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    “It is not necessarily a money thing for me,” McGregor said.

    Sure Conor. Tell us another one. Like defending your title is your number 1 goal in life.:D:D

    Man has a career in politics if he can keep up lying with a straight face like that.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭mkdon


    are we here to comment on his private love life here or what is this?


  • Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭CM24


    I could be totally wrong here now, but is yer man on the far left not Graham "The Wig" Whelan? who is supposed to be murdering McGregor any day now? fqqcm

    https://imgur.com/a/fqqcm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    “It is not necessarily a money thing for me,” McGregor said.

    Sure Conor. Tell us another one. Like defending your title is your number 1 goal in life.:D:D

    Man has a career in politics if he can keep up lying with a straight face like that.

    Conor bless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,601 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    D'Agger wrote: »
    Somebody pointed out recently during the Aldo Holloway fight that Max took a full uppercut from Jose, and clapped it off - they stated that the height difference is what helps here, Mendes or a shorter fighter than Max or Conor takes that hit and it's quite possible it's lights out. Height advantage means that even if landing flush, an opponent mightn't generate as much power behind the punch.
    Clapping off a punch like that is more a sign that it hurt than it didn't hurt tbh.


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    CM24 wrote: »
    I could be totally wrong here now, but is yer man on the far left not Graham "The Wig" Whelan? who is supposed to be murdering McGregor any day now? fqqcm

    https://imgur.com/a/fqqcm

    looks exactly like him compared to other pictures.
    are the others in the photo convicted criminals also?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Mellor wrote: »
    Clapping off a punch like that is more a sign that it hurt than it didn't hurt tbh.

    Holloway made bits of aldo twice. Think max beats conor in a rematch due to a superior gas tank. Mcgregor is in for a rough night sooner or later due to his bad cardio. We already saw it happen in the first diaz fight.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    mkdon wrote: »
    are we here to comment on his private love life here or what is this?

    Well its not like he's been busy fighting or anything. His love life stopped being private the instant the papers reported 10 hookers going to his hotel room.

    Though I'm sure the more deluded Conor fanboys believe he brought them up for Bible study.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,642 ✭✭✭The Rooster


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    Well its not like he's been busy fighting or anything. His love life stopped being private the instant the papers reported 10 hookers going to his hotel room.

    Though I'm sure the more deluded Conor fanboys believe he brought them up for Bible study.

    You've also got the situation of clowns believing everything they see in tabloid papers.

    That report had 1 one woman entering a hotel with one of Conor's goon mates.

    Then pictures of other random women (suitably dressed for the purposes of the article!), some going in when it was light outside, others when it was darks, some of the pics could have been taken days/weeks/months/years previously, all entering a 500+ room hotel, but the article said there was 10+ all going to a Conor party!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    You've also got the situation of clowns believing everything they see in tabloid papers.

    That report had 1 one woman entering a hotel with one of Conor's goon mates.

    Then pictures of other random women (suitably dressed for the purposes of the article!), some going in when it was light outside, others when it was darks, some of the pics could have been taken days/weeks/months/years previously, all entering a 500+ room hotel, but the article said there was 10+ all going to a Conor party!

    hqdefault.jpg

    Yeah. you're right. He's clearly not the type to do such a thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
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    Yeah. you're right. He's clearly not the type to do such a thing.

    That could be Dee for all you know haha


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    That could be Dee for all you know haha

    Ye she’s probably just leaning over conor to strap the baby into the car seat


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    That could be Dee for all you know haha

    Conor fanboys in a nutshell.

    Its-Still-Real-to-Me-Dammit.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭cletus


    Ah lads, will ye stop arguing and go to bed. It's Christmas Eve, and Santa's going to be here soon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,476 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    cletus wrote: »
    Ah lads, will ye stop arguing and go to bed. It's Christmas Eve, and Santa's going to be here soon

    Eddie Alvarez would like a word, he’s got some bad news for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,601 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    hqdefault.jpg

    Yeah. you're right. He's clearly not the type to do such a thing.
    He clearly the type to hit the strip clubs..and the rest. But that doesn't mean every story/photo in the Sun is true. Come on, you know the craic with the tabloids and the level of fact checking they care about.
    I might be misremembering, but I think Dee was actually there for the above photo (Vegas UFC promo), as was some NFL Hall of Famer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    Conor's year recap, Part 1:

    January: Conor holds an event in Manchester saying his next fight will be in boxing and he will do it with or without the UFC. Dana responds, "When you do a PPV where you're charging people 5 bucks to hear you talk, you gotta say some crazy sh1t. If he wants to go down that road with us, it'll be an epic fall. The chances of this fight happening are about the same as me being the backup quarterback for (Tom) Brady on Sunday".

    February: Conor appears on the cover of GQ magazine before randomly cancelling a speaking event at the Red Cow. Floyd gives an interview saying "If Conor wants this fight to happen his boss needs to talk to my people". Floyd Mayweather Sr. vows to KO "Conor's coach whoever he is", meanwhile Kavanagh says "In MMA you have to work on 7 to 8 skillsets, in boxing it's only one, so it will be a nice break for us to only have to focus on one".

    March: Dana does a full 360 and says "I fail to see how this fight doesn't happen, there's just too much money on the table". The Sun report a world exclusive saying the fight has been signed and will take place June 10th. Conor posts on Twitter praising the Diaz 2 scrap and "looking forward to the trilogy down the road".

    April: Conor attends the Grand National and places €20,000 each-way on Blaklion, which placed resulting in a profit of 20k. He embarks on a four-day bender including trashing hotel rooms, nitrous oxide cannisters, girls alleging he tried to get them into his car, random videos up a tree-house and attending various house parties around the city.

    May: Conor Jr. is born May 5th, weighing in at 8lbs 14oz. Floyd gives an interview claiming he could lose a potential fight with Conor. "He's a heavy hitter in his 20's. I'm 40 and have been off for a few years." Conor claims to have signed his half of the contract on May 18th putting the ball in Floyd's court. He posts a photo meeting Katie Taylor for the first time calling her a legend. He gets a boat, names it the "188" and gets in controversy for some shenanigans with jet-skis and powerboats near swimmers.

    June: Conor drops into Crumlin hospital unannounced and goes around various wards to speak to kids. He posts a photo of himself and Floyd Sr. saying "THE FIGHT IS ON" for August 26th. The tweet was the 7th most retweeted sports tweet of 2017. The Hollywood Gossip report some anonymous sourced allegations that Conor slept with a woman they refer to as Sasha on September 27th, 2016 while in NY for the UFC 205 presser. A competition boxing ring was installed in an adjacent unit in SBG, with a mural of Conor connecting with a left hand. A reaction video of Conor seeing it was released. John Kavanagh writes in the42.ie "Nothing other than victory will be acceptable". Black Rights Matter activist Shaun King writes a lengthy article for the NY Daily News calling Conor a racist and a bigot. Chris van Heerden re-emerges for 15 seconds more fame appearing everywhere to slate Conor's boxing ability.

    July: The World Tour commences. The opening night in LA leaves Conor looking foolish standing on his own on the stage awkwardly dancing for a minute. His microphone is cut and is unable to respond to Floyd's quips. Lots of "Hard work!" and "YEAHHHH". In Toronto, in front of a raucous Irish crowd, Conor goes on the attack calling Stephen Espinoza a "weasel" and suggests Floyd can't read. He threatens to fcuk Floyd up on stage if he makes a move with the Irish flag. He opens Floyd's schoolbag to incredulously find "about 5 grand in 'ere". In NY, Conor claims he is 50% black from the waist down and calls Mayweather 'boy' again, sparking dozens of "he's a bigot" articles amidst the video of his "Dancing monkeys" comment coming out. The tour fizzles out on his 29th birthday in London with Floyd calling him an "eejit".


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction



    Great article.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭sonofenoch



    Ugh ....how was Christmas on Lobster island??? ....the kid looks to be having a blast........few weeks ago her and the kid had left him on here maw yah


    Fooooook off!!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1



    I wonder how much the Independent paid them to wear them.


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