Conor McGregor

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726820#Comment_120726820

The comparison is more to do with cheating/straying allegations.

RockOrBog

Mctapper looks drunk or wasted all of the time now. He is a functioning addict who is only heading one direction. With all his money and pompous attitude he is bound to expire like a dying star... Like watching a car accident as you are going past.

Gusser09

Rooney isnt in the same ball park as McTapper. Rooney cheated yes. Thats between him amd coleen.

Mctapper has been accused on sexual assault on more that one occassion. Thats the issue. Not cheating.

prunudo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726841#Comment_120726841

Had this conversation with a mate recently, he wouldn't entertain the idea that he could loose it all, had made too much money to squander it and that he was too savvy to loose it all. Time will tell as the they say.

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726820#Comment_120726820

I wasn't comparing McGregor with Rooney. I meant their partners are unlikely to leave them when they're so used to the good life.

Brussels Sprout

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726841#Comment_120726841

Unlikely. McGregor has a good business head on him. He is obsessed with his net worth and he's exceptionally transactional with all of his dealings. The likes of Tyson and Mayweather just assumed that the money would never dry up and spent it as it came in. I believe he's got a growing property empire and the way he essentially flipped his Proper 12 investment showed decent savvy.

He said himself that Tyson gave him good advice about what not to do, based on the mistakes that he himself had made when he was raking it in. He's got a pretty good radar for people who he sees as trying to leech off of him too.

walshb

Conor adores wealth and money. Very unlikely he squanders it. He’s worth a serious amount, and even if he did make mistakes, there’s plenty room for it!!!

btw, Mayweather is even more obsessed with wealth and material things, and he definitely won’t squander it

willowthewisp

I don’t think that Conor McGregor is savvy about his money and wealth. However I do think that he has someone in his payroll who is.

PaoloGotti

I’ll admit I was a big fan of his during his early UFC career. He had something special - was ploughing through opponents and had a funny wit to go along with his performances. Me and my friends had great nights staying up for his fights

It all seemed to turn once he got the big pay day for the Mayweather fight. Both in terms of his athletic performances and the mask slipped big time. No longer was he looking to the future and applying himself. Now he had achieved the wealth and fame he could let his true character come out - he is an out and out scumbag of the highest order.

WheelieKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726521#Comment_120726521

It's child abuse tbh.

Flaneur OBrien

I’d be happy to bet 20 quid that he’ll be bankrupt within 15-20 years.

As for having savvy people on his payroll? They’ll be the first ones out the door when they say no to him on a comedown day.

Its pretty depressing. To come from a modest upbringing, have friends that definitively had tougher lives, and do nothing with it, just snort it up your nose.

The good that he could do instead of this ar*ehole route though…

Str8outtaWuhan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726115#Comment_120726115

Courts couldnt get the kinihans back from the Costa I doubt they could make him pay her from dubai

jon1981

Apparently the girl sitting beside him at the NBA finals is the victim. That's a serious dollar seat so was obviously invited to it by someone famous. McGregor maybe?

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120727422#Comment_120727422

Alleged victim

TooTired123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120727334#Comment_120727334

So you think that he’s going to abandon his 4 children and their mother. What would that do to his reputation. His kids living in a council house in Finglas while he jetsets around the world. Really?

walshb

Can we scrap this idea of Dee and kids ever coming close to living in need..even if Conor disappeared with every cent he has ever earned, Dee and her children would still be living a very comfortable financial life..

Brussels Sprout

I get that he's an obnoxious, narcissistic, scumbag who flaunts his money and people like that are often morons. He isn't though.

Even from the very beginning of his UFC career he began making intelligent decisions, both on his pathway to his titles and on the financial side of things.

1. After his UFC debut McGregor used his post fight interview to immediately request one of the $60k bonuses on offer that night. That wasn't the done thing at the time but now it's ridiculously common to see it after fights
2. He got that bonus and partially used it to buy himself a designer suit. That might sound like an idiotic decision but he had a plan. UFC Fighters didn't wear suits but McGregor wanted to portray himself as a business man from the get go. He wore suits from then on when promoting his bouts and before and after fights.
3. He was a relentless self-promoter. Many fighters despise the media side of things but McGregor relished it as he saw the opportunity for self-promotion and to get more eyeballs on his fights. He also figured out the attention economy and became a veritable content factory for memes and quotations.
4. On his run to the UFC title he was infamous for learning everything he could about his opponents. He would then use this information to come up with witty put-downs in pre-fight press conferences. This was all part of a strategy. McGregor has an unusually strong punch from his left hand. Any decent opponent would realise that and know to avoid it. However McGregor often had them in such a blind fury with his verbal barbs that many of his opponents lost all their discipline and ended up getting knocked out (most famously the long-time champion Jose Aldo) in the first round.
5. After becoming champion he immediately requested a shot at the champion in the next highest weight category. While this kind of thing is common in boxing it was entirely unheard of in the UFC. In the past the UFC simply wouldn't have allowed it but McGregor was now their biggest star and he used this leverage to ultimately make the fight happen.
6. McGregor was by now a millionaire and was starting to dip his toe in the business side of things. He noticed that he, as the biggest star in the sport was giving a lot of interviews to various dedicated MMA media companies who had their own ad-generated revenue streams. He therefore set up his own media company, The Mac Life and gave them a disproportionate amount of his interviews (also where he had editorial control).
7. After he became the first person to win two belts he again used his leverage with the UFC to get them to do something that they had always refused to allow in the past: cross promote a fight with another promotion. This was the infamous boxing match with Floyd Mayweather. When McGregor initially discussed this as a possibility everyone thought he was crazy. On paper the idea was absolutely ludicrous. Someone who had never fought a professional boxing match was trying to fight a 49-0 multiple world champion. He was relentless about it though and willed it into actually happening where he made something like $100m
8. He used part of that money to invest in some anonymous blended whiskey company. He created a name for it, marketed it relentlessly and then sold most of his stake along with his partners for a reported $600m. It's not known how much of that he got but safe to say he did well out of the venture.

I don't personally like the man. I think, especially since the Mayweather fight he pitches himself at the lowest common denominator whilst behaving appallingly. However I cannot deny the evidence that he has a talent for thinking outside the box and relentlessly making money for himself and has done so since the very beginning of his career (ie when he didn't have the money to hire business consultants)

I understand the wish to see him humbled and penniless but I cannot see it happening. I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up in jail though especially for some kind of sexual assault, given his track history and general air of invincibility.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120727634#Comment_120727634

Many super-wealthy and successful people are morally bankrupt.

Some are just better at covering up their crimes than others, irrespective of how business savvy they may be.

jon1981

Sure. He's just been unlucky. I've lost count of the amount of allegations against the lad.

pgj2015

I never liked him from the start, only complete low lives like him now.

I disown him when a foreigner says oh you are Irish like Conor McGregor.

he will definitely end up in prison or be dead before he is 40.

ceadaoin.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120725394#Comment_120725394

I stayed at the same hotel in the US as them a couple of years ago. They were all at the pool and he completely ignored Dee and the kids for the entire time he was there, and sat away from them where everyone could see him. Like completely blanked them and only spoke to his sister I think it was and some member of his team who was there. None of the kids even tried to talk to him which I thought was telling. Didn't seem very happy and connected to me.

TooTired123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120728741#Comment_120728741

I’d believe that actually.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726890#Comment_120726890

It would be idiotic to think he can't lose it all.

Them contracts have a lot of clauses, his hanger onner scrote aquiantances will make sure they get their cut when they see cash flow going in the wrong direction. A couple of litigation suits and the whole thing could really go tits up quickly.

Those trusted money managers are the ones he needs to watch out for. Sneaky clauses here and there that McGregor will have signed off on without full awareness of what he is actually signing.

Oscar_Madison

The scanger hangers on are most likely cheering him on whist at the same time looking at the exit and planning their escape.

He’s jeopardised entry to the USA more than once- it’s very possible he’ll be barred if he doesn’t get arrested and detained in the meantime. There’s a few other “incidents” in various countries previously reported. Just because a case hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it won’t in the future.

Gusser09

His money will be worth nothing when he is jailed in the states or he drinks / cokes himself into oblivion.

Gusser09

Trump McTapper.

BattleCorp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120729975#Comment_120729975

I can't see him living to be 60. He'll O.D. or he'll p1ss off the wrong person who will either plug him or have someone else do it.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120727634#Comment_120727634

Great read, this.

The McGregor Forever Netflix doc is very good. And really does show how intense the chap is for work and play. Not a fan of his, but you’d have to admire his capacity to promote and work and make things happen.

more chance pigs will fly than him being even near penniless

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120732721#Comment_120732721

That would be a bonus though. Him going broke. I think the prospect of him ending up in prison is much more real and close at this stage.

PokeHerKing

He could definitely go broke. Look at Tyson. Very similar characters all things considered.

ILoveYourVibes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120723795#Comment_120723795

If a legal team can make you teflon with the cases he has faced they can get you out of that too.

Maybe he would even go for custody and have a nanny raise them to get out of it.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733142#Comment_120733142

Completely different eras and jurisdictions I'd say. Mayweather and Conor are obsessed with having wealth, and they surround themselves with people who can keep that wealth growing.

Tyson is not at all comparable in terms of the passion and interest and obsessiveness that Conor is showing as regards accumulating wealth.

Tyson earned and spent and did eff all as regards watching and handling and managing....placed far too much trust in others. No way Conor is that casual

WheelieKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733142#Comment_120733142

In fairness to Tyson he actually had a bad upbringing and came from the tough streets, i'm not excusing some of his behaviour but he was very vulnerable and used anger to lash out. I see good in Tyson despite it all something which i see zero of in McGregor. He's just a scumbag through and through. Khabib ended his career making a fool of him in the process and i wish he's just piss off and disappear from the public eye once and for all. He's an embarrassment to the the country.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733483#Comment_120733483

Tyson is a convicted rapist for chrissske. Unanimously found guilty. And anyone who has proper read up on that case should be in no doubt what he did. He is a scumbag.

WheelieKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733495#Comment_120733495

And like i said im not excusing some of his behaviour, you must have missed that bit.

TooTired123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733163#Comment_120733163

Why would he not want to support his kids? Why would a judge anywhere in the world take the kids away from their mother and give them to someone with the reputation of Conor McGregor.

Your understanding of basic family law is frankly laughable.

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733446#Comment_120733446

You've no idea how/who is managing his money to be fair. None of us do. But comparatively speaking from what we do see, Tyson and Mcgregor are very similar characters.

Mayweather is much less comparable to mcgregor than Tyson is imo.

Tyson was/is no dummy. But that didn't stop him from going broke due to his various other character flaws.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733728#Comment_120733728

Tyson during his career was involved heavily with Don King.....enough said on this silly comparison!!!

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733772#Comment_120733772

Imagine if in 20 years you're able to look back and go mcgregor was involved with x as a reason for why he went broke.

The comparison is 100% valid.

Hindsight is not clairvoyance.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733968#Comment_120733968

He won’t go broke. And the Tyson comparison is silly.

You may as well use Tyson as regards anyone in sport who ever went broke if that’s the case

DownByTheGarden

I cant stand the scrote but in that video i dont see anything wrong.

Two women are actually following him into the bathroom. The dont look to be forced.

This will probably all be explained a way by. Woman I met earlier wanted to go to the jacks. I told her to use the mens and she came in and i waited outside to watch the door.

Id love to know. where the other girl was during this. Was the jacks empty except for McGregor and her? That would be unusual with such a crowded event and the amount of people in that video.

Were they both in the cubicle?

Seems to me she went willingly into the toilets and went for a pee.

Original story was that she was forced in. Why would you go for a pee when you are forced into the mens toilets?

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733994#Comment_120733994

If you can't see the glaringly obvious similarities I can't help you.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120734016#Comment_120734016

So what are they in relation to being bankrupt? Tyson was screwed by dodgy people. Tyson’s association with and trusting of these people played a huge part in Tyson losing an awful lot of money.

Now, show me the similarity with Conor here as regards this?

Don King had Tyson wrapped up. Don Fooking King..

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120734290#Comment_120734290

I mean mcgregor hasn't gone bankrupt. It's a hypothetical discussion re that topic.

The similarities that arent hypothetical are their wealth, status, professions, personalities, sexual misconducts and the dodgy characters they're surrounded by.

So given that history shows us tyson bankrupted from a 300m fortune then it's a comparison worth noting for the potential for mcgregor to follow suit.

You have no idea who mcgregors potential Don King is or if he'll get cleaned out by some lawsuit because it hasn't happened yet (it may never happen).

ghostfacekilla

https://twitter.com/VideosIrish/status/1681422909947125760?s=20

https://twitter.com/VideosIrish/status/1681429330218614796?s=20

ghostfacekilla

https://twitter.com/VideosIrish/status/1681429330218614796?s=20

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120734016#Comment_120734016

More likely he will continue to grow his wealth at a rapid rate for years to come.

The Tyson comparison is more wishful thinking.

xtal191

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120869393#Comment_120869393

Not the same place

jj880

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120869391#Comment_120869391

Official reports say a scrap broke out at the afters for his aunts funeral.

Seems everywhere he goes there's hassle.

BattleCorp

Bigger fortunes than McGregor's have been squandered or lost. It's not impossible to think he could end up with fcukall. He shouldn't, but it isn't impossible.