Over the weekend, Conor McGregor made headlines again when he got into a physical altercation with Machine Gun Kelly at the MTV Awards. The fight was the latest in a series of McGregor social advances, and as the two-division UFC champion continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons, some members of the MMA community wonder if McGregor is lost to “Notorious,” including two-time UFC champion Daniel Cormier.
“McGregor’s crazy thing is when I say the trick, I mean the billionaire with the prop, the luxury cars and the money, because the reality is that it’s the WWE,” Cormier said on his ESPN show. “You get a character, your character can be The Billionaire, your character can be Vince MacMahon. Vince MacMahon is the evil boss, but Vince MacMahon, when he hits that curtain on his back, becomes Vince MacMahon the CEO and president It’s the same with Ric Flair When Ric Flair was Ric Flair, with style and profiles, kiss the girls and make them cry, woo !, all of that But when Ric Flair touched the curtain of the behind him, he never stopped.He continued to live like Ric Flair and finally that was his undoing.That’s why at 60 you saw him still struggling, because he had spent so much money, he had lived such a long life. reckless, it was not sustainable.
“Conor McGregor is the fighter, but Conor McGregor also lives this great life and this is where I wonder,“ Have you overcome this trick that is Conor McGregor as a person? ”
For the past few months, McGregor has been a public relations nightmare. After his second straight loss to Dustin Poirier in UFC 264, McGregor began a vitriol run, threatening to kill Poirier while sleeping, and continued to make aggressive statements about Poirier and his family weeks after the fight. He also tweeted and then deleted a horrible tweet about the dead father of Khabib Nurmagomedov, who started a dispute with Cormier.
All in all, it has been an unfortunate year for McGregor. Aside from bad PR, McGregor has also lost twice this year and is now stuck rehabilitating his broken leg. Given the way things have been going, there have even been questions about whether McGregor should hang up his gloves and follow his other ventures. Leading Forbes ’list of highest paid athletes in 2020, McGregor has no shortage of other opportunities that put him in danger, but Cormier believes this shouldn’t be for“ Notorious ”.
“You can’t turn that off. No matter how much money you have, you can’t turn it off. You can’t turn off that burning desire to hit that curtain,” Cormier said. “When I touch this curtain, it is the most intense I have ever seen in my life, and I have never felt and experienced …
“You go through the crowd. Walk through the crowd and your hands are getting towards you, everyone yells, that’s what you get from the UFC. But you don’t have the helmet on, your face isn’t hidden, it’s just you, as naked as you can, walking around that fan room where someone wants a piece of you. It’s addictive. And when that octagonal door closes, that fight, knowing that man wants to kick you out, that feeling is second to none, and for Conor McGregor, who is a fighter, you can’t replace him. A dollar amount will not equate to what you feel when you feel the mat barefoot, when you are there inside the referee and the man and you know what will come next. It can’t be replaced by a dollar value and I think that’s why Conor will never lean on celebrity more than the real fighter. ”
McGregor is still rehabilitating his broken leg, but has said he intends to return to the cage next year and by the time he does, he is already aiming for a fourth fight with Poirier.
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Rest in peace.
Apparently, Conor has a Netflix series.
I will be the executive producer of the project.
I’m contractually locked into 4-hour, one-hour episodes that I have to produce right now for Netflix. What to give or take I have already done. First episode of an hour until January easy. Christmas presents, I’m Santy ho ho ho ho https://t.co/DoOPKgshqc– Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) September 15, 2021
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