herbie747

 then he starts playing funny buggers so soon to the press conference.

 

 

What does that mean? He wanted more money? He wanted less media? Something else?

 

But it's not about the media schedule, despite what anyone is saying. UFC will give him a reduced schedule which he'll happily do, since he know he has to do some media - it's about money

 

 

This was everyone's suspicion, mine included but a lot of people on here seemed to change their mind as soon as Conor posted that Facebook statement. Just believing him despite the fact he'd just pretended to retire?

 

That sort of bullshit doesn't work on Lorenzo.

 

 

Guy's worth over over $1.5b. In my (albeit limited) experience of dealing with mega rich people it stops being about money once they're rich & becomes about control & power. I envisage Lorenzo seeing all these people online claiming 'Conor is running the show' & seething.

 

 

I don't even think that would bother him. I'd say it's more about McGregor's tactic of negotiating. 

 

 Well, yeah, this appearance is alright considering he's not exactly training for anything now and has free time to do so since he isn't fighting. You're trying to make something out of nothing there. 

 

 

Isn't he? Supremo said a few posts ago he's apparently training like a beast now?

 

I'm not trying to make anything. Conor claimed that flying out for UFC 197 was unreasonable but is appearing on some shitty talk show a couple of days later. You think he was booked for this on a couple of days notice?

 

That appearance was already booked a good while back, so he's likely just fulfilling prior commitments there. 

 

But it's not about the media schedule, despite what anyone is saying. UFC will give him a reduced schedule which he'll happily do, since he know he has to do some media - it's about money. That's why he threatened to no-show the press conference, as a negotiating tactic that backfired. That sort of bullshit doesn't work on Lorenzo.

What negotiations? It wasn't about money, that's already been established. 

 

It is about money.

I got aggressively bored watching Arya this week. 

 

All 3 minutes of her sitting there begging, then a quick stick fight? Yeah, must have been a grueling. 

McGregor is shooting himself in the foot here by lying about the fight being back on - he'll risk becoming like Chael - someone who nobody believes.

Seems he is back in Ireland - well, John K is anyway:

 

https://twitter.com/John_Kavanagh/status/724624710714155008

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ufc-200-connor-mcgregor-20160425-story.html

 

Dana White says there's no deal in place for Conor McGregor return to UFC 200

Paddy Holohan just retired, legit.

 

https://www.facebook.com/paddyholohanofficial/?fref=nf

 

Re: David, Yep, if he was anyone else he would be blasted. But he's not, and no one else is Conor McGregor.

 

he's looking like someone who's managed to do himself out of around $5 million, which is fucking dumb whichever way you look at it

 

Not if he ends up not training properly, making $5m, but then losing again.

 

Another loss to Diaz affects his earning potential in the longer term. And he'll make that $5m next time he fights anyway - so nothing is being left on the table at all.

Some of the best MMA discussion is here on the UKFF

 

Bigtime - I wouldn't even dream of going anywhere else. Tried it and wanted to kill myself.

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Done - thanks Moo.

So we have our now thread now for this. Moo kindly split it off from the general news thread.

 

Free Observer Live show today talking about it:

http://media001.f4wonline.com/free/042116wol.mp3

 

Skip to 11:30mins for Meltzer.

 

Butch - can we move Page 1029 (from this post onwards), of the "The new MMA general news, events and thoughts thread" into a new thread titled "McGregor retires?"

 

Done: https://ukff.com/topic/137226-mcgregor-mcretires/

 

 

Legend - thanks Moo.

 

How do I donate towards the hosting?

So if there's any doubt as to who the fucking man is - top 5 articles on MMA Fighting right now, along with number of comments:

 

 

Compared with the next 5 articles:

Butch - can we move Page 1029 (from this post onwards), of the "The new MMA general news, events and thoughts thread" into a new thread titled "McGregor retires?"

Plus, it gives Conor something of an excuse when Nate most likely beats him again. He can claim to be burnt out, jaded and that kind of thing.

Not if he doesn't do all the usual press and gets to focus on his training - then he has no excuses if he loses.

The crazy thing is the amount of PR he has now generated due to this fiasco, and if he's not at the Press Conference this weekend, but is still fighting at 200, he'll probably get more press than if he was there!! Everyone will just be asking Dana & Nate about Conor!

The tabloid ones are interesting to see. Herbie, have the latest Conor developments made the front pages over there at all?

 

Yeah as above.

 

Plus my Dad even asked me yesterday on the phone. And he hasn't a clue about any sports! And my wife paused House of Cards last night to get me to fill her in because she'd been reading & hearing so much. It's big news - well, as big as MMA is in this country - which is pretty much McGregor.

 

To put that into perspective, a headline last week read "Former McGregor opponent accused of assault in strip club" - Brandao was not in the headline.

Well it's up to the paid members - the ones who got this forum made. And tiger_rick already said no.

 

And I agree. Boxing is not MMA.

Okay, I haven't got much - but just in an effort to get things started:

 

Irish tabloid headlines the day after the McGregor vs Jose fight:

 

 

 

Betch:

 

When Shamrock owned Bisping on Twitter:

 

Chris Cariaso borrowing his Dad's suit:

 

On a serious note can we get the boxing thread moved over here from the off-topic?

 

Makes sense to IMO.

No thanks - it's not MMA.

So assume we can have a separate thread for each Fight Night now? And bigger news items can also have their own thread?

Kick ass, thanks.

I'd say he wouldn't get on the plane to do the PR because of the issue with UFC. So while it's true that Dana may be pulling him from UFC 200 for not doing the press conference, the reason why he isn't doing it is the issue at hand.

 

FRB is saying it's other promises that were made to Conor that UFC did not deliver on - not money. And as much as I despise the scrote, that does make sense. We don't know what they are - but it's likely because UFC failed to deliver something agreed, that Conor is staying put in Iceland until they make good on it. And if Conor stays put in Iceland & doesn't do the press conference, then he's in breach of contract and can be pulled from the event.

 

That seems to be the most likely picture right now.