keith dublin
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Looking like he has retired from Ufc
Got his money and ran lol.
Got his money and ran lol.
Mcgregor pulled from ufc200
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DaveSleggy
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I still think its all a publicity stunt for himself, say theres more to the story.
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keith dublin
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I believe he was a bit shuck after that lad dying last week
Maybe he thought enough is enough
Maybe he thought enough is enough
Hes right to
He can still make plenty money
No use to you with brain damage or in the ground
Best of Luck to him with it
He can still make plenty money
No use to you with brain damage or in the ground
Best of Luck to him with it
DaveSleggy
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He's set for life either way. But yeah it'd shake anyone with more than 2 brain cells up
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As everyone is by now aware, Conor McGregor tweeted that he was retiring. Shortly afterwards, Dana White announced that the UFC had removed McGregor from his scheduled bout at UFC 200. And for the rest of the afternoon and evening, MMA fans the world over desperately scoured the internet to figure out what precipitated all of this.
Well, Chael Sonnen thinks he knows. Last night after all the hoopla, Sonnen did a Facebook live chat where he answered many listener comments surrounding McGregor's situation and talked about his knowledge of the behind the scenes workings.
"I don't have any inside info on this. Just being around the business since the 90's, I know how it works. I know how this whole thing went down. And if I tell you what I think, I guarantee I'm 98 percent right if not 100.
"Conor had a deal with the UFC. And Conor's now going back and trying to renegotiate and it just doesn't work that way. It can't. You can't write everything down, you can't get your contracts done all the time in this business. There's 500 guys under contract. There's not even that many employees in the UFC. I think there's like 340 employees with 500 fighters. There's 53 shows scheduled for a year that only has 52 weeks in the year. You have to be able to make a phone call, count on whatever the guy says, hang up the phone and that's the end of it. You have to be able to do that.
"Conor has a contract, he made a deal, somewhere he didn't sign it. Let the promotion go out, let the money get spent and then realized ‘I've got the upper hand. Now I can come back and renegotiate. Who's going to tell me no when the advertising is already done?' That's what he did. Guaranteed. With no inside knowledge, guaranteed that's what happened."
While Sonnen has no direct knowledge of the situation, he was one of the UFC's biggest stars for several years and has an intimate knowledge of how negotiations between fighters and management take place. If what Sonnen theorizes is true, it would serve as proof that the long swirling rumors of a growing rift between McGregor and Zuffa were right all along.
During the live chat, Sonnen made several attempts to get in contact with McGregor but was unable to reach him. As Sonnen tried to reach out he continued answering questions on the topic including on the effects of McGregor's decision.
"He might really be done...I don't know if he wants to be done. This was a negotiation tool. But he called the bluff of the wrong guys. These are gamblers man, there's rules in Vegas. If you say bet you have a bet. I mean that. You go to a casino, you don't put your money down, you tell the pit boss ‘I want that bet' if he yells the word bet you have a bet. And it goes both ways. If you win it he'll pay you...Anytime you go into a negotiation and you call someone's bluff, man you better mean it because this is what can happen."
If McGregor really is done, he would be the eighth UFC champion to vacate a belt for non-injury reasons behind Couture, Rutten, Shamrock, Bustamante, Penn, St. Pierre, and Pulver. He would be the only one of those to vacate a belt while coming off a loss. If things are as Sonnen believes them to be, the coming off a loss part could severely hurt McGregor in the court of public opinion.
"When you get beat up by a guy, and then you agree to fight him again, and then you pull out, it really doesn't matter after that. And the miscalculation here by Conor is he's not gonna be telling his side. He's gonna be telling his side to whoever.com. He's not gonna be telling it on FS1 or ESPN or anywhere else. Those days are gone. This was a big mistake."
Regardless of whether this is just a stand off between fighter and management or has its genesis in something else entirely, UFC 200 is now without a headliner. As a perceived flagpole event for the promotion, Zuffa has now been left to scramble for a suitable replacement, a matter which Sonnen also addressed.
"Who's a good replacement for Conor? I guarantee you Georges St.-Pierre's phone is blowing up right now and he's getting a big offer. That's the guy they're gonna go after."
St Pierre has been in the news lately for his renewed negotiations with Zuffa and possible return; however, St. Pierre appears to have some major sticking points about coming back, specifically regarding the Reebok deal, which may not be so easily assuaged. If St. Pierre can't be enticed, Sonnen speculated that a Ronda Rousey-Holly Holm rematch or possibly Jon Jones-Daniel Cormier would be the next plan for the UFC. One thing he was clear on though was that McGregor was absolutely no longer an option.
"This is the biggest UFC of all time and sometimes that's a fun thing to say for promotional reasons, but it is. When you talk about the ratings, when you talk about the biggest show of all time nobody ever even brings up UFC 100 because it was such an anomaly and the numbers were so crazy that you just throw it out. It's like a curve in school. So UFC 200 you would have to imagine would be that big. He was sitting on top of the bill and this is done. The commercials are out. There's a lot of money that's already spent. There's a lot of billboards that are already up....I've known Dana since 2005. He's not putting a patch in this boat. Conor could call him right now, he's not patching up UFC 200."
You can listen to the entire live chat below, including Sonnen comparing McGregor to the Ultimate Warrior.
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Chaos. Conor McGregor tweeted that he is retiring.
Sure you did. Dana White tells ESPN that the UFC pulled Conor from UFC 200 for not fulfilling media obligations.
Motivated BJ Penn. BJ Penn thinks Greg Jackson and preparation will be the key to his UFC return being successful.
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Demetrious Johnson talks about hearing second hand that the new season of TUF would be for a title challenger.
Suspensions. Medical suspensions were released for the UFC on Fox 19 fighters.
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EXTRA CREDIT READING
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Nothing today folks. Conor monopolized everything yesterday so I've got nothing to recommend. I'll make it up to you tomorrow.
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MEDIA STEW
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Joe Rogan on all the Conor stuff.
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Behind the scenes at Bellator. Gotta love how Carano keeps pretending like one day she might return to fighting.
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To paraphrase the great Shea Serrano, that's a little thing called putting a stamp on it.
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Imperator Furi-Rose-a is great.
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Double dose of TTTHS.
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LONG WATCHES
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Good interview with Javier Mendez about Khabib and other happenings.
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Came out before all the Conor shenanigans but good content nonetheless.
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Good talk with Eddie Bravo about the upcoming EBI event this weekend.
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TWEETS
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And thus started the easiest Twitter roundup I've had since taking over the MR. Thanks CM.
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Whataburger was up with this about 10 minutes after Conor's tweet. Fast food indeed.
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I'm not surprised mother f***ers.
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When it started to seem like this definitely wasn't a troll job.
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He knows a guy.
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Well played, sir.
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Derrick Lewis is a must follow on Twitter.
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If Condit doesn't retire, him versus Matt Brown would be my favorite fight of all time.
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I repeat: a must follow.
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This blew over really fast in the advent of the CM news. Not a good look.
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Though veiled threats are also not an appropriate response.
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Khabib Who Wrestles Bears is angling for that rematch.
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And RDA wants no part of it.
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Sorry but Khabib was rather active in the last 24 hours.
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Game.
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FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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John Salter(11-3-0) vs. Brandon Halsey (9-1-0); Bellator 156, June 17.
Yuki Yasunaga(14-8-1) vs. Ryuichi Miki(18-9-4), Pancrase 279, July 24.
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TODAY IN MMA HISTORY
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2013: UFC on Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez was held at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. In the main event, Benson Henderson retained his lightweight championship winning by split decision over Gilbert Melendez in a fight many people called a robbery.
In the co-main event, Daniel Cormier made his promotional debut as a heavyweight, defeating Frank Mir by unanimous decision. Also debuting in the UFC that evening, Yoel Romero defeated Clifford Starks by way of flying knee and follow up punches.
That night also featured the only time in his career that Nate 'the man who retired McGregor' Diaz was stopped via strikes, when Josh Thomson kicked him in the head and then followed up with punches until the referee intervened/the Diaz corner threw in the towel.
2012: Bellator 66 took place at the I-X Center in Cleveland, Ohio. In the main event Eddie Alvarez stopped Shinya Aoki with strikes in the first round, avenging his loss to Aoki by heel hook 3 years earlier.
Also on the card, Andreas Spang defeated Brian Rogers with a highlight reel KO.
1984: UFC veteran and current WSOF lightweight Tyson Griffin was born.
1979: Former UFC title challenger Nate Marquardt was born.
1978: Pride veteran and the first man to ever stop Anderson Silva, Daiju Takase was born.
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Well, Chael Sonnen thinks he knows. Last night after all the hoopla, Sonnen did a Facebook live chat where he answered many listener comments surrounding McGregor's situation and talked about his knowledge of the behind the scenes workings.
"I don't have any inside info on this. Just being around the business since the 90's, I know how it works. I know how this whole thing went down. And if I tell you what I think, I guarantee I'm 98 percent right if not 100.
"Conor had a deal with the UFC. And Conor's now going back and trying to renegotiate and it just doesn't work that way. It can't. You can't write everything down, you can't get your contracts done all the time in this business. There's 500 guys under contract. There's not even that many employees in the UFC. I think there's like 340 employees with 500 fighters. There's 53 shows scheduled for a year that only has 52 weeks in the year. You have to be able to make a phone call, count on whatever the guy says, hang up the phone and that's the end of it. You have to be able to do that.
"Conor has a contract, he made a deal, somewhere he didn't sign it. Let the promotion go out, let the money get spent and then realized ‘I've got the upper hand. Now I can come back and renegotiate. Who's going to tell me no when the advertising is already done?' That's what he did. Guaranteed. With no inside knowledge, guaranteed that's what happened."
While Sonnen has no direct knowledge of the situation, he was one of the UFC's biggest stars for several years and has an intimate knowledge of how negotiations between fighters and management take place. If what Sonnen theorizes is true, it would serve as proof that the long swirling rumors of a growing rift between McGregor and Zuffa were right all along.
During the live chat, Sonnen made several attempts to get in contact with McGregor but was unable to reach him. As Sonnen tried to reach out he continued answering questions on the topic including on the effects of McGregor's decision.
"He might really be done...I don't know if he wants to be done. This was a negotiation tool. But he called the bluff of the wrong guys. These are gamblers man, there's rules in Vegas. If you say bet you have a bet. I mean that. You go to a casino, you don't put your money down, you tell the pit boss ‘I want that bet' if he yells the word bet you have a bet. And it goes both ways. If you win it he'll pay you...Anytime you go into a negotiation and you call someone's bluff, man you better mean it because this is what can happen."
If McGregor really is done, he would be the eighth UFC champion to vacate a belt for non-injury reasons behind Couture, Rutten, Shamrock, Bustamante, Penn, St. Pierre, and Pulver. He would be the only one of those to vacate a belt while coming off a loss. If things are as Sonnen believes them to be, the coming off a loss part could severely hurt McGregor in the court of public opinion.
"When you get beat up by a guy, and then you agree to fight him again, and then you pull out, it really doesn't matter after that. And the miscalculation here by Conor is he's not gonna be telling his side. He's gonna be telling his side to whoever.com. He's not gonna be telling it on FS1 or ESPN or anywhere else. Those days are gone. This was a big mistake."
Regardless of whether this is just a stand off between fighter and management or has its genesis in something else entirely, UFC 200 is now without a headliner. As a perceived flagpole event for the promotion, Zuffa has now been left to scramble for a suitable replacement, a matter which Sonnen also addressed.
"Who's a good replacement for Conor? I guarantee you Georges St.-Pierre's phone is blowing up right now and he's getting a big offer. That's the guy they're gonna go after."
St Pierre has been in the news lately for his renewed negotiations with Zuffa and possible return; however, St. Pierre appears to have some major sticking points about coming back, specifically regarding the Reebok deal, which may not be so easily assuaged. If St. Pierre can't be enticed, Sonnen speculated that a Ronda Rousey-Holly Holm rematch or possibly Jon Jones-Daniel Cormier would be the next plan for the UFC. One thing he was clear on though was that McGregor was absolutely no longer an option.
"This is the biggest UFC of all time and sometimes that's a fun thing to say for promotional reasons, but it is. When you talk about the ratings, when you talk about the biggest show of all time nobody ever even brings up UFC 100 because it was such an anomaly and the numbers were so crazy that you just throw it out. It's like a curve in school. So UFC 200 you would have to imagine would be that big. He was sitting on top of the bill and this is done. The commercials are out. There's a lot of money that's already spent. There's a lot of billboards that are already up....I've known Dana since 2005. He's not putting a patch in this boat. Conor could call him right now, he's not patching up UFC 200."
You can listen to the entire live chat below, including Sonnen comparing McGregor to the Ultimate Warrior.
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5 MUST-READ STORIES
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Chaos. Conor McGregor tweeted that he is retiring.
Sure you did. Dana White tells ESPN that the UFC pulled Conor from UFC 200 for not fulfilling media obligations.
Motivated BJ Penn. BJ Penn thinks Greg Jackson and preparation will be the key to his UFC return being successful.
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Demetrious Johnson talks about hearing second hand that the new season of TUF would be for a title challenger.
Suspensions. Medical suspensions were released for the UFC on Fox 19 fighters.
Star-divide
EXTRA CREDIT READING
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Nothing today folks. Conor monopolized everything yesterday so I've got nothing to recommend. I'll make it up to you tomorrow.
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MEDIA STEW
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Joe Rogan on all the Conor stuff.
Star-divide
Behind the scenes at Bellator. Gotta love how Carano keeps pretending like one day she might return to fighting.
Star-divide
To paraphrase the great Shea Serrano, that's a little thing called putting a stamp on it.
Star-divide
Imperator Furi-Rose-a is great.
Star-divide
Double dose of TTTHS.
Star-divide
LONG WATCHES
Star-divide
Good interview with Javier Mendez about Khabib and other happenings.
Star-divide
Came out before all the Conor shenanigans but good content nonetheless.
Star-divide
Good talk with Eddie Bravo about the upcoming EBI event this weekend.
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TWEETS
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And thus started the easiest Twitter roundup I've had since taking over the MR. Thanks CM.
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Whataburger was up with this about 10 minutes after Conor's tweet. Fast food indeed.
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I'm not surprised mother f***ers.
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When it started to seem like this definitely wasn't a troll job.
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He knows a guy.
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Well played, sir.
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Derrick Lewis is a must follow on Twitter.
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If Condit doesn't retire, him versus Matt Brown would be my favorite fight of all time.
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I repeat: a must follow.
Star-divide
This blew over really fast in the advent of the CM news. Not a good look.
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Though veiled threats are also not an appropriate response.
Star-divide
Khabib Who Wrestles Bears is angling for that rematch.
Star-divide
And RDA wants no part of it.
Star-divide
Sorry but Khabib was rather active in the last 24 hours.
Star-divide
Game.
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FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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John Salter(11-3-0) vs. Brandon Halsey (9-1-0); Bellator 156, June 17.
Yuki Yasunaga(14-8-1) vs. Ryuichi Miki(18-9-4), Pancrase 279, July 24.
Star-divide
TODAY IN MMA HISTORY
Star-divide
2013: UFC on Fox 7: Henderson vs. Melendez was held at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. In the main event, Benson Henderson retained his lightweight championship winning by split decision over Gilbert Melendez in a fight many people called a robbery.
In the co-main event, Daniel Cormier made his promotional debut as a heavyweight, defeating Frank Mir by unanimous decision. Also debuting in the UFC that evening, Yoel Romero defeated Clifford Starks by way of flying knee and follow up punches.
That night also featured the only time in his career that Nate 'the man who retired McGregor' Diaz was stopped via strikes, when Josh Thomson kicked him in the head and then followed up with punches until the referee intervened/the Diaz corner threw in the towel.
2012: Bellator 66 took place at the I-X Center in Cleveland, Ohio. In the main event Eddie Alvarez stopped Shinya Aoki with strikes in the first round, avenging his loss to Aoki by heel hook 3 years earlier.
Also on the card, Andreas Spang defeated Brian Rogers with a highlight reel KO.
1984: UFC veteran and current WSOF lightweight Tyson Griffin was born.
1979: Former UFC title challenger Nate Marquardt was born.
1978: Pride veteran and the first man to ever stop Anderson Silva, Daiju Takase was born.
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I'm guessing you didn't type that out Keith 
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I did lol
With one finger on a phone on the back of a bus going to town ????
With one finger on a phone on the back of a bus going to town ????
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While getting head from some granny
Granny's are the job they can take out there teeth then you get all gum
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Granny's and a warm jar of liver
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Holy jesus lads what happened to this thread!
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Lol
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McGregor 'not retired', offers to fight at UFC 200
MMA • 1 HOUR AGO
Conor McGregor has had a change of heart
Conor McGregor says he has "not retired" and is still available for UFC 200 if the organisers will allow him a reduced promotion schedule.
He released a statement on his Facebook page, saying: "I am still ready to go for UFC 200."
The 27-year-old tweeted on Tuesday that he had retired and the following day UFC boss Dana White said the Dubliner had been pulled from the card for refusing to fulfil media duties for the 9 July Las Vegas event.
He was due to fight Nate Diaz, who submitted the Crumlin man in two rounds in his last fight.
"I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions," said McGregor.
"For the record also - For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations - I AM NOT RETIRED."
The full statement reads:
I am just trying to do my job and fight here.
I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.
I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.
There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.
50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I'm left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.
Nothing else was going through my mind.
It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.
Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a f**k morning show did not get me this life.
Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a f**k about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight *** a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.
I'm coming for my revenge here.
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.
With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.
I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.
There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.
I have decided to retire young.
Thanks for the cheese.
Catch ya's later.
— ConorMcGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) April 19, 2016
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.
He came in with no sh*t to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.
I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.
For the record also -
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.
MMA • 1 HOUR AGO
Conor McGregor has had a change of heart
Conor McGregor says he has "not retired" and is still available for UFC 200 if the organisers will allow him a reduced promotion schedule.
He released a statement on his Facebook page, saying: "I am still ready to go for UFC 200."
The 27-year-old tweeted on Tuesday that he had retired and the following day UFC boss Dana White said the Dubliner had been pulled from the card for refusing to fulfil media duties for the 9 July Las Vegas event.
He was due to fight Nate Diaz, who submitted the Crumlin man in two rounds in his last fight.
"I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions," said McGregor.
"For the record also - For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations - I AM NOT RETIRED."
The full statement reads:
I am just trying to do my job and fight here.
I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.
I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.
There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.
50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I'm left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.
Nothing else was going through my mind.
It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.
Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a f**k morning show did not get me this life.
Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a f**k about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight *** a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.
I'm coming for my revenge here.
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.
With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.
I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.
There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.
I have decided to retire young.
Thanks for the cheese.
Catch ya's later.
— ConorMcGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) April 19, 2016
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.
He came in with no sh*t to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.
I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.
For the record also -
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.