Conor McGregor thread (MMA Talk Only - Read 1st Post Before Posting)

The biggest stroke of luck McGregor ever had was RDA getting injured, he would've wrecked him and the whole champ champ thing and boxing stuff would've never happened.

Instagram and the likes have really elevated this look at me with all my money shoite and lots of people now seem to be more interested in vain tools showing off how much crap they buy than anything else.

It's the mindset of the closed-minded buffoon.

Money is nice, but certain people get it into their heads that acquiring money is not only the #1 goal in life, but that money is the only currency that exists.

This isn't the case. There are many many different currencies.

Respect, class, integrity for a start. These are all genuine social currencies.

More than that, fighters like McGregor, GSP, Jones and whoever when they start out they are not only dreaming of being rich, but they are dreaming of being a champion. And not just wearing the gold, but they look towards beloved champions of the past and want to be loved like them. Let's not pretend that these things are not important. Would you be happy if your missus told you she was starting an Only Fans? Chances are you would not, even if she was going to be making £15,000 a month at it!

Granted, a lot of people don't realise or completely ignore the importance of these things and focus just on money. But let's get something straight, one of those people is NOT Conor McGregor. When he does the Billy walk and he gives it socks about his bank balance, that's cute and all but if that was all that he cared about he would have retired after the Floyd fight. And he certainly would have retired to a hammock after the whiskey deal. He doesn't need the money, but he needs other social currencies to feed his ego and his desire to be loved and respected. He wants a legacy, he wants to be remembered as the best, he wants statues built of him and streets to be named after him just like the classic champions of the past have. He wants to be able to show his kids and grandkids down the line his belts and his trophies and his accomplishments.

Bringing his bank balance into things is extremely lazy. The real reason for him continuing to fight is to acquire all of those things that money can't buy!

McGregor is a very lucky guy, everything fell into place for him and he made ridiculous money. He helped it along obviously with his media presence and fast knockouts.

The luck is still there, I think he was going to lose again but a broken leg means we can't actually prove that.

If Dustin is smart he takes the title fight, wins and fights McGregor for the title after that. If he's really smart he loses that fight, has a rubber match and it'll leave him the second biggest earner in the history of MMA only behind Conor.

Whether you love or hate McGregor you can't take away how much he's done to bring UFC into the mainstream.

Who suggested he's in the GOAT conversation?

And there will always be haters focusing on his loses and belittling his success. As with anything in life, the extreme views are rarely balanced an accurate.

Standard McGregor revisionist history. same thing happened to Aldo - who turned into a washed up never was after he lost. Diaz was an elite black belt after the first fight, and a journeyman after the second. I think the only one that was fair was Cowboy. Even really obvious scoring gets twisted after the fact.

I think the leg injury is ammo for the same in future for both sides. Unless it's a 3-5 round comprehensive win, like Khabib. Some lunatics will always take a mad view.

I don't think that Conor could beat Volkanovski if he dropped down.

Have you heard of Dana White, I thank him for bringing the UFC to the mainstream, thank the scaldy knacker for bringing it to the spuds.

An inordinate number of users of this site appear to care about earning power how wealthy McGregor is when it comes to discussion of actual fights and sports fandom. Really bizarre stuff.

bUT hE hAz loAdzAH MoNEy!!!!

Poking at the death of the man's father. Disgusting!

When it comes to that Ali bloke I wouldn't blame him one little bit for crossing the line.

He has no character. Simple as that really.

But Khabib did kill McGregor. He beat the **** out of him to the (hilarious) extent that McGregor was trying to calm him down in the ring.

So McGregor can continue to disgrace himself, while Khabib can take the high road, perfectly satisfied.