Connor McGregor continues to be a piece of shit - And by that I mean Irish

[TiggerNits]

https://sports.yahoo.com/dont-surprised-conor-mcgregor-never-fights-ufc-215213451.html

He got in to a press conference, ambushed some fighters heading to a bus, there a dolly and other shit at the bus and injured some folks with his Entourage.

 

[LulzKiller]

conor*
im a pedantic cunt

 

[TiggerNits]

Irish too poor to afford the extra n, ey? Noted.

 

[Coconut Gun]

Prime example of a potato nigger.

 

[H4nzn0]

The story because OP forgot

Conor McGregor has been mostly great for the UFC during his nearly five years as part of the promotion. On Thursday, though, he undid every bit of goodwill he built up in becoming MMA’s biggest star.

The incident did incalculable damage to McGregor’s reputation, as well as that of the UFC. But there was other serious damage inflicted, as well. Two fighters, Alex Caceres and McGregor teammate Artem Lobov, lost a fight. Another, Michael Chiesa, who was cut by broken glass caused by things thrown at the bus window, needed medical attention and his fight with Anthony Pettis is in jeopardy.

This could easily have been a far more significant incident, and it’s hardly a leap to think that there could have been serious injuries.

McGregor has been the unofficial face of MMA for at least several years. He’s a terrific fighter, a brilliant self-promoter and a witty, media savvy businessman who has built himself into a mini-empire.

He has, however, put his fight career in peril. Imagine what might occur at an athletic commission meeting if the UFC were to try to pit McGregor against someone he sees as a rival, such as Nurmagomedov or Nate Diaz. It is hardly a guarantee that he would be licensed in the U.S.

And he’s put the UFC in a position it didn’t want to be in. He’s the biggest star and its most bankable athlete, but the UFC has to take disciplinary action against him beyond whatever might happen to him criminally.

No one knows for sure what set McGregor off, though being stripped of his belt and a confrontation in the fighter hotel Tuesday between Lobov and Nurmagomedov are likely a big part of it.


It’s manifestly unfair to the fighters in his division, as well as the fans, that there hasn’t been a championship fight since he defeated Alvarez. He went 337 days between winning the featherweight title from Jose Aldo at UFC 194 until being stripped of the featherweight belt when he defeated Alvarez.

If anything, the UFC was pitifully slow in taking the belt from him. It allowed him to fight boxer Floyd Mayweather and make a nine-figure payday in 2017, and didn’t strip him. He was putting a stranglehold on the business, both for the UFC and for his peers in the lightweight division.

Fighters make far more money, directly through purses and indirectly through sponsorship and personal appearances, when they’re a champion. And so McGregor was costing many of his fellow fighters a chance at life-altering money themselves.

More troubling, though, is the thought that he flew to Brooklyn from Ireland to confront Nurmagomedov as a result of a hotel confrontation with his teammate. That makes his out-of-control actions Thursday premeditated, when he knew or should have known that his actions could cause serious damage.


It’s not a stretch to say that someone’s career could have been ended, or worse, had the incident gone another way.

Despite all the good he had done on his way to the top, McGregor is going to pay a serious price. It would be hard to argue with the UFC if it chose to never allow him to fight again.

He’s going to be sued for so much by so many people that he’s going to drain much of his fortune paying legal fees. McGregor caused a lot damage, and so it would be no stunner if he weren’t able to fight again.

And for what? He let his ego get the best of him and believed his own b.s., and who sadly became the character he portrayed.

This is one incident that can’t be laughed off as just one of those things. He largely got away with firing cans into an audience, turning them into weapons that could have caused serious damage to innocent bystanders, at a 2016 news conference.

He’s not getting away with this. Not this time. Not how this went down.

If we never see Conor McGregor in competition again, it will be solely because of the events of April 5, 2018.

 

[Autistsforuganda]

Can somebody please put Mcgregors face on this irishman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgWcDR3BNo

 

[TiggerNits]

And now he's in jail

https://web.archive.org/web/2018040...n-ufc-dana-white-says/?utm_term=.a418581960f0

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor turned himself into police Thursday and was arrested and charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief after his role in a fracas that left UFC fighter Michael Chiesa in the hospital with a facial laceration. The incident took place after a media event ahead of Saturday’s UFC 223 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

According to the Independent, McGregor was held overnight and remained in police custody early Friday morning as he awaited a court appearance in Brooklyn. MMA Fighting reports that Cian Cowley, McGregor’s SBG teammate, also was charged with one count of assault and one count of criminal mischief over the incident.

Three matches scheduled for Saturday’s UFC 223 card have been scrapped because of the fracas. Chiesa, who was to fight Anthony Pettis, was cut in the face and was in the hospital; he has been deemed unfit to fight by the New York State Athletic Commission and the UFC medical team. Ray Borg, a flyweight who was scheduled to battle Brandon Moreno, also was deemed unfit to fight after suffering corneal abrasions. Artem Lobov, a McGregor ally who was apparently part of the incident, also was pulled from the card.

[ Conor McGregor says he’s done prizefighting, wants to ‘legitimize’ UFC title ]

It was unclear whether Thursday’s incident was prompted by White stripping McGregor of his belt, or by previous bad feelings between McGregor’s camp and Khabib Nurmagomedov, scheduled to fight Max Holloway for McGregor’s vacated belt in Saturday’s main event. Nurmagomedov was filmed in a confrontation with Lobov, the McGregor ally, earlier this week.

On Thursday, McGregor and his entourage approached a large vehicle full of fighters that was leaving Barclays Center in Brooklyn after the media event, according to MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani and videos posted of the incident. “Chairs were thrown through the van window and one passenger on the van was injured,” Helwani reported, in an apparent reference to Chiesa.

Videos posted to social media show a chaotic scene, with at least one guardrail being flung and general disorder. (A fuller video of the bus incident is here; it contains explicit language.)

“Conor went bananas and put a beating on the van that we were in,” Chiesa’s coach Rick Little told MMAjunkie. “A million security guards had to restrain him. Mike’s cut up now. He’s got marks on him, for sure. I don’t think too serious. Everything happened so fast, it was just like we got jumped.”

Little told the site that his fighter had been cut by shattered glass. And some media members at the arena reported that the target of McGrergor’s ire was apparently Nurmagomedov, who seemed to believe that was the case.

“I am laughing inside,” the Russian told Helwani. “You broke window? Why? Come inside. If you real gangster why don’t you come inside? This is big history gangster place. Brooklyn. You want to talk to me? Send me location. I am going to come. No problem.”

White, meanwhile, called the incident the most despicable thing in UFC history, according to ESPN’s Okamoto.

“You want to grab 30 [expletive] friends and come down here and do what you did today?” White said in a video posted by Okamoto. “It’s disgusting. And I don’t think anybody is going to be huge Conor McGregor fans after this. I don’t know if he’s on drugs or what his deal is, but to come and do this and act like this?”

Later Thursday night, the UFC issued a statement regarding the incident:

Thursday afternoon, following the UFC 223 media day at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, an incident in the facility injured two athletes on Saturday’s card, forcing them to be pulled from the event.

Lightweight Michael Chiesa, who received several facial cuts, was deemed unfit to fight by the New York State Athletic Commission and the UFC medical team, and he was removed from his bout against Anthony Pettis.

Flyweight Ray Borg, who was scheduled to face Brandon Moreno, was deemed unfit to fight as well due to multiple cornea abrasions.

Also removed from the card was the featherweight bout between Artem Lobov and Alex Caceres due to Lobov’s involvement in the incident.

UFC 223 will proceed as scheduled with 10 bouts.

White’s anger toward longtime UFC moneymaker McGregor seemed genuine, but others quickly pointed out that a McGregor-Nurmagomedov fight might be more lucrative after Thursday’s drama. Daniel Cormier, one of the sport’s stars, tweeted that McGregor should be taken into custody and escorted to the arena Saturday “to make him fight Khabib … That’s true punishment!”

White had announced earlier this week there would be “no interim champ” following Saturday’s scheduled lightweight main event between Max Holloway and Nurmagomedov.

“When this fight is over, champion,” White said at a news conference, gesturing to Nurmagomedov and Holloway. “One of these guys will be the champion.”

This news was not taken well by McGregor, the previous permanent holder of that title.

“You’s’ll strip me of nothing,” he tweeted very early Thursday morning, before calling UFC officials an unprintable word.

McGregor won the lightweight title by defeating Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 in a November 2016 bout but stepped away from the octagon to train for last year’s lucrative boxing match against Floyd Mayweather. Tony Ferguson stepped in to win an interim lightweight belt in McGregor’s absence, but White said Saturday’s bout between Nurmagomedov and Holloway will decide a new official champion.


“Tony Ferguson isn’t being stripped. The only person here who is losing a belt is Conor. Conor’s losing the belt, these two are fighting for the belt,” White said at the news conference.

“The interim belt that he had, those two [Nurmagomedov and Ferguson] were supposed to fight — doesn’t happen. One of these guys will be the champion. Tony is still the number one contender.”

Before Thursday’s fracas, White insisted that McGregor “is coming back this year, 100 percent,” adding, “We’ll see how this thing plays out [with the lightweight title], and we’ll go from there.”

He later reiterated that stance on Fox Sports’ “UFC Tonight,” saying: “Conor does want to fight. Conor and I have been talking a lot. Conor does want to come back, he does want to fight, so he will fight this year.”

Again, he said this before Thursday’s events.

 

[Lipitor]

And now he's in jail

https://web.archive.org/web/2018040...n-ufc-dana-white-says/?utm_term=.a418581960f0

Do you think anyone messed with him in jail?

 

[TiggerNits]

Do you think anyone messed with him in jail?

I honestly hope so, but I doubt it. People in the small lock up would be star struck

 

[Lipitor]

This is really bad... He was set up to be the biggest fighter in the world (may even be). It's not just about how much he'll lose when everyone on that bus slaps him with a lawsuit, it's about how many future fight opportunities he lost by doing this. Yea these crazy antics will probably rile up some UFC fans and make him more popular, but in the long run the UFC organization can't promote a guy whose doing the kind of unsportsmanlike things he's doing. All the surge from that mayweather fight is probably gone now, looks like UFC will turn their back on him rather than let him and his antics be the face of their organization.

 

[JustStopDude]

his is really bad...

The big problem is that he will not be able to easily get work visas.

So unless UFC or any promoter for that matter wants to do an event in Ireland, it will be extremely difficult to schedule a fight for him because he can get stopped and denied at point of entry.

 

[DragoonSierra]

I call roids

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

Mike Tyson spent 3 years in prison for rape and grossed nearly $100 mil for his comeback fight. McGregor will fight again and make more money than ever before when all of once all of this gets resolved. I doubt he will fight in the US again on the grounds that he most likely won't be able to get a work visa, but he will make a shitload of money fighting on PPVs shot in Eastern Europe.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

This reminds me of the flashgitz video on McGregor...

https://youtu.be/HzKTK0024kw

 

[Darndirty]

Connor vs khabib in Russia by the end of the year, you know how much money this asshole is gonna make? I'll watch it...

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Connor vs khabib in Russia by the end of the year, you know how much money this asshole is gonna make? I'll watch it...

I hope Khabib smashes his ass