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

Zero-Cool

Axwell wrote: »

https://www.mmamania.com/2018/8/30/17799724/ufc-frustrated-with-conor-mcgregor-media-blackout-selfish-attitude


Conor not agreeing to any media or press conferences - in one way it's good to see he is focused on the training. But there's nothing like a good McGregor press conference to draw the attention and see what he comes out with to get under the skin of the other fighter. Of course with a bigger pay out on the PPV hes also more focused on the money and this fight practically sells itself!

I thought that if UFC were to meet Conor's money demands, they would have in his contract that he would have to be on time to his press conferences. Never mind not even having media in his contract. He really does have the leverage and I'm sure he would have no problem going down the Floyd 2 / movie route when UFC well runs dry.


Would be very dissapointed if there wasn't one with him, Khabib, Tony and Pettis though.

Spudman_20000

If I was McGregor, I'd have fight week packed with media events for himself and Khabib, considering Khabib's issues with weight cutting. Throw him off his routine as much as possible.

At the time of the UFC 200 debacle, Conor made it clear he wanted less disruptions to his camp and specifically didn't want to do little scutty radio shows. People thought he lost that argument when he was kicked of 200 but it's obvious he got his way in the long run. Once his camp is done I expect him to notch it up.

All_in_Flynn

Ariel said yesterday I think it was, that he has heard that press conference will be in NY soon enough.

Conor is expected to move to Vegas to finish his camp and stop in NY to do the presser

The Ayatolla

Should just get Tony McG to do his media in the interim.

WanderlustIre

All_in_Flynn wrote: »

Ariel said yesterday I think it was, that he has heard that press conference will be in NY soon enough.

Conor is expected to move to Vegas to finish his camp and stop in NY to do the presser

As of yet he hasnt agreed to it. So how the heck does ariel know

All_in_Flynn

WanderlustIre wrote: »

As of yet he hasnt agreed to it. So how the heck does ariel know

How do we know he hasn’t agreed to it?

One MMA journalist says he hasn’t another says he has heard presser set up for NY!

WanderlustIre

All_in_Flynn wrote: »

How do we know he hasn’t agreed to it?

One MMA journalist says he hasn’t another says he has heard presser set up for NY!

Because he said himself 18 months he wouldnt be doing the pressers like before.

All_in_Flynn

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Because he said himself 18 months he wouldnt be doing the pressers like before.

Oh well then, if he said it 18 months ago then he defo must not be doing pressers!

Conor says a lot of things. I think it would be naive of people to think he’s not going to do any press work for this. Despite it being a distraction, it’s still in his interest to do some more promotion.

WanderlustIre

All_in_Flynn wrote: »

Oh well then, if he said it 18 months ago then he defo must not be doing pressers!

Conor says a lot of things. I think it would be naive of people to think he’s not going to do any press work for this. Despite it being a distraction, it’s still in his interest to do some more promotion.

Nobody is sayings not at all. He wont while in camp

Effects

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Because he said himself 18 months he wouldnt be doing the pressers like before.

Wasn't is 22 months ago he announced his retirement?

All_in_Flynn

WanderlustIre wrote: »

Nobody is sayings not at all. He wont while in camp

The point I was making is that nobody knows for sure and your rationale that he hasn’t agreed to do a presser in NY because of something he said nearly 2 years ago is flawed.

WanderlustIre

Effects wrote: »

Wasn't is 22 months ago he announced his retirement?

and took it back 22 minutes later. Has he said he will do media?

Whelo79

WanderlustIre wrote: »

and took it back 22 minutes later. Has he said he will do media?

What he said was that he wouldn't be doing world tours again (a la Aldo/Mendes) not that he wouldn't be doing any media at all. That didn't stop him for the Mayweather fight.

If he is flying to Vegas via NY it is no major hassle to stop off for a few hours, or a night, and do a press conference.

Brief_Lives

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Mayweather posted this on Thursday.


https://twitter.com/FloydMayweather/status/1035124249042677761

its a great pic to post... But it does make you think, me anyway, that this was a response to McGregor saying basically he doesn´t give a fcuk about Mayweather... in a fight in the street Mcg would win, in a heartbeat..

I'm probably not explaining myself well... it's either the start of a big drama for an octagon fight, or McGregor is showing that he doesn´t give a fcuk that he lost in the ring, but knows he could take Mayweather in any other forum.

Call Me Jimmy

Brief_Lives wrote: »

its a great pic to post... But it does make you think, me anyway, that this was a response to McGregor saying basically he doesn´t give a fcuk about Mayweather... in a fight in the street Mcg would win, in a heartbeat..

I'm probably not explaining myself well... it's either the start of a big drama for an octagon fight, or McGregor is showing that he doesn´t give a fcuk that he lost in the ring, but knows he could take Mayweather in any other forum.

Well it's cross promotion, a win-win for mayweather. The more eyes on conor while mayweather is doing nothing the better assuming floyd wants to dance again $$$ if not he gets an ego boost having eyes on him

Effects

Brief_Lives wrote: »

I'm probably not explaining myself well... it's either the start of a big drama for an octagon fight

Why do people think this is going to ever happen? It's ridiculous.

thebull85

Effects wrote: »

Why do people think this is going to ever happen? It's ridiculous.

Im sure ive heard this somewhere before..

dulux99

Effects wrote: »

Brief_Lives wrote: »

I'm probably not explaining myself well... it's either the start of a big drama for an octagon fight

Why do people think this is going to ever happen? It's ridiculous.

Someone will counteract this with 'they said that about the boxing match'

the difference with the boxing match and the potential MMA fight is McGregor was always going to be able to play the "i'd kill you in a real fight" card.

If Floyd was stupid enough to go into MMA he'd be finished within a minute and would come out of it looking very weak.

Also I can't believe I keep getting roped into Mayweather vs McGregor chats ffs

Effects

thebull85 wrote: »

Im sure ive heard this somewhere before..

Except no one ever said there was even a slim chance of Floyd fighting with MMA rules.

Effects

Effects wrote: »

Except no one ever said there was even a slim chance of Floyd fighting with MMA rules.

I think there's a chance - better than slim but worse than 50/50 - of Floyd fighting in the Octagon with fists-only modified rules.

However i'm not sure if modified rules can be sanctioned (?) so perhaps it would indeed technically be under MMA rules albeit with some outside legal agreement to exclude kicks etc.

In the very early days of the Mayweather McGregor rumours, there's video of Dana saying "punches, kicks, knees, elbows. We can start the negotiations there and add or subtract". So at one point he was open to a modified rules fight and he was presumably thinking of it ocurring within the UFC.

Eircom_Sucks

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Mayweather posted this on Thursday.


https://twitter.com/FloydMayweather/status/1035124249042677761

He should really learn to spell before he tries firing shots at conor , and the date he posted it on was thursday not wednesday , and conor not connor

What a complete tool

CatFromHue

50 Cent, is that you?

:pac:

Effects

Deleted User wrote: »

In the very early days of the Mayweather McGregor rumours, there's video of Dana saying "punches, kicks, knees, elbows. We can start the negotiations there and add or subtract". So at one point he was open to a modified rules fight and he was presumably thinking of it ocurring within the UFC.

Except Floyd never would have gone for that so it's a bit of a mute point.

cletus

[pedantism]moot point. A debatable question, an issue open to argument; also, an irrelevant question, a matter of no importance.[/pedantism]

The Ayatolla

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

He should really learn to spell before he tries firing shots at conor , and the date he posted it on was thursday not wednesday , and conor not connor

What a complete tool

One of the "top mma journos" called him MacGregor in a tweet the other day.

hunter164

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

He should really learn to spell before he tries firing shots at conor , and the date he posted it on was thursday not wednesday , and conor not connor

What a complete tool

Hmmmm I’d take his lack of spelling intelligence for some of his prize money

hatrickpatrick

Anyone seen these rumours flying around about Conor refusing to do media stuff for the fight? Real bummer if so, I for one want to see acrimonious pressers

Shows how far things have come since 200 though, if Conor is now able to call some of the shots on that.

hatrickpatrick

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I thought that if UFC were to meet Conor's money demands, they would have in his contract that he would have to be on time to his press conferences.

Why would they? The banter and hilarity which accompanies his late arrivals is golden for them. Think how boring the 205 presser would have been if Conor and Alvarez had just arrived on time together without any off-storming, belt-stealing, chair-throwing-threatening antics

clsmooth

hunter164 wrote: »

Hmmmm I’d take his lack of spelling intelligence for some of his prize money

Also a great way to wind up McGregor misspelling his name