Official Conor McGregor thread (part 6) *Read Mod Note in Post 1* Revised 13-01-19

magic_murph wrote: »

Jimmy Fallon - what a insufferable clown of a man.

From 3 mins 20

https://twitter.com/TeamKhabib/status/1110490431916249088?s=19

Conor's efforts at a U.S. accent needs a little attention me thinks...

Go away McGregor.

White is a tough operator, you won't pull one on him.

Mellor wrote: »

The $4b sale was for c.80% of Zuffa/UFC. All the previous owners retained some ownership.
A year later, there was another investment, that bought out the Ferdittas and the Abu Dhabi lads fully. But afaik Dana only diluted his share. So he still has a small piece of the pie.

White had 9% he sold it, he now gets 9% of the profits plus $20m salary. Not too shabby

rob316 wrote:

White had 9% he sold it, he now gets 9% of the profits plus $20m salary. Not too shabby

He didn't sell it all afaik.
Before the sale he had 9%. Ferdittas had 81%, and Abu Dhabi had 10%.
After the sale, Ferdittas had 7%, Abu Dhabi still had 10%. And Dana had "something", it wasn't disclosed afaik.
Not saying it was still his full 9%, only a percent or two.

And, yeah he got a savage deal with the profit share. He'd be mad to get out.

His gimmick is based of Money Mayweather,
Who you guessed it also retired multiple times to return to a bigger fan fair,

I'm convinced he only came back for the Khabib fight to promote his whiskey. Every promo piece was him drinking it, the logo on the apron. All his interviews I've seen since are all about Proper 12 and AM, fighting is always the last thing he talks about or is asked about. His heart wasn't in that camp, he came in 6-8 weeks before in **** shape I'm told. He hadn't fought in 2 years or trained for a camp, anyone talking it serious would of done atleast 12 weeks.

People aren't going to buy a whiskey of a retired fighter, so he has stayed as active as little possible, while keeping in the headlines.

He got his token title shot now the UFC don't know how to use him as his name is still too big for a co main.

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Ariel reporting its over the diaz trilogy more or less. Ufc says they have no interest in it and conor wants it. Ariel more or less calling dana a liar cause dana implying they dont need conor. Ariels balls have dropped asume its cause espn is king now and dana cant ban him

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Honestly, you'd be mad to think McG v Khabib 2 wouldn't do insane numbers.

At this stage Conor could fight his local binman over a grudge and do major PPV. People underestimate his draw, the genuine MMA fans are only a small piece of that particular jigsaw, and always were in his later fights.

Americans absolutely love him.

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2019/03/26/mcgregor-announces-ufc-retirement-ahead-of-ufc-comeback/

The Dublin man’s announcement has had a knock on effect elsewhere as Joe.ie has sadly ceased trading and fired its 400 journalists as its business model was heavily reliant on the 60-Conor-McGregor-articles-a-day industry.

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mdwexford wrote: »

Definitely another faux retirement.

Must be crazy to stick out one strangely worded tweet and see it make world news and social media go into meltdown. Between that and all the Mayweather cash is it any wonder it went to his head.

Imagine chilling at home with your friends having a laugh and saying “watch how I can cause a meltdown with this one tweet”, then 15 minutes later seeing not only every sports outlet but also the likes of Sky News and the BBC etc covering it.

Madness :pac: