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Budweiser Commercial Starring Conor McGregor Outlawed In Ireland

It’s no secret that reigning UFC featherweight champion the “Notorious” Conor McGregor is beloved by his homeland of Ireland. In fact, tens of thousands of passionate Irish fans typically follow him to wherever he’s fighting to pack out arenas. It’s widely clear that McGregor is seen as a hero to the Irish people, but this

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It’s no secret that reigning UFC featherweight champion the “Notorious” Conor McGregor is beloved by his homeland of Ireland. In fact, tens of thousands of passionate Irish fans typically follow him to wherever he’s fighting to pack out arenas.

It’s widely clear that McGregor is seen as a hero to the Irish people, but this ‘heroic’ status actually recently impacted a commercial the “Notorious” one had starred in.

According to the Irish ad regulator (Per Businessinsider.com), McGregor is viewed as ‘a hero of the young’, which is why his commercial with Budweiser was recently banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI).

According to the policies and codes of the ASAI, alcohol cannot be promoted by heroes or heroines to the young, putting McGregor’s commercial in breach of their guidelines:

“The committee, having regard to Conor McGregor’s status as world champion and profile, considered that he is a hero of the young for the purpose of clause 9.7(c) of the code,” the ASAI said in a statement.

Attempting to explain its side of the story, Budweiser claimed that the Irish knockout artist was not an ‘identifiable hero of the young’. The company also said that their commercial “only aired on channels and during programmes which had an overwhelming adult audience for both traditional and digital media channels”.

Despite their reasoning, the commercial has been pulled nonetheless.

McGregor currently doesn’t have his next fight set after he was infamously scrapped from his scheduled UFC 200 (July 9, 2016) rematch with Nate Diaz, although it is expected that the sides will come to an agreement for the rematch soon.

The “Notorious” one is coming off of a submission loss to Diaz at last March’s UFC 196.

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The UFC Just Needs To Pay Nate Diaz

In the last few days, UFC President Dana White and UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertita have met with both Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz likely in hopes of coming to an agreement for their highly anticipated rematch that was originally scheduled for July 9’s UFC 200. According to McGregor, it seems as if his meeting with

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In the last few days, UFC President Dana White and UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertita have met with both Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz likely in hopes of coming to an agreement for their highly anticipated rematch that was originally scheduled for July 9’s UFC 200.

According to McGregor, it seems as if his meeting with the UFC brass went well, and that both parties were able to put their differences aside.

With Diaz, however, it appears to be a different story, as it so very often is with a Diaz brother.

White, while not going into too much detail, described the situation to MMAJunkie yesterday (May 20, 2016):

“I didn’t have a good day in Stockton.”

Despite not having all of the facts, one would have to assume that Diaz and the UFC brass hit a roadblock when talks of money came up.

The younger Diaz brother has had his fair share of contract disputes with the promotion, and he’s always stated that he’s interested in only big fights and big money.

The key factor here, however, is that the Stockton native never really had too much leverage. In the eyes of White, Diaz didn’t necessarily “move the needle” despite being quite a popular name amongst the fans.

To the UFC, Diaz likely appeared as a complaining fighter who seemed to talk more than he would fight, and one could argue that this theory was partly true.

Now, however, the roles have reversed, and the tides have changed. The ball is finally in Diaz’s court, and he finally has the leverage he’s been waiting so long for.

The former title challenger came in on less than two week’s notice and took out the sport’s biggest star in McGregor via submission at March’s UFC 196. He talked his head off, sold the fight, and deserves his credit for being part of one of the biggest events in mixed martial arts history.

Diaz undoubtedly became even bigger of a star after UFC 196, and fans want to see him fight now more than ever, and despite the criticism towards a Diaz vs. McGregor rematch, the fight would simply be massive.

The younger brother of MMA’s most polarizing duo has had a long, somewhat controversial, and interesting career to say the least.

He may have been out of line many times before regarding his demands from the UFC, but this one time, he may be right on point, and he’s made it clear what he wants: a rematch with the Irishman, and a boatload of cash.

It’s time that the UFC gives in, and pays Nate Diaz his money.

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Should The UFC Let Conor McGregor Fight At UFC 200?

After all is said and done, hasn’t McGregor put in a ton of work already? UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor is unique in many ways. He has a natural talent for both fighting and selling events for the promotion, something the UFC is not used to at this level. So grand is McGregor’s gift of

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After all is said and done, hasn’t McGregor put in a ton of work already?

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor is unique in many ways. He has a natural talent for both fighting and selling events for the promotion, something the UFC is not used to at this level. So grand is McGregor’s gift of the gab that many argue he has began to surpass the promotion itself in popularity, something that UFC president Dana White is clearly not happy with. All this has led to a week of constant McGregor and UFC 200 headlines, each of which stemmed from this single Tweet.

Conor McGregor’s retirement Tweet this past Tuesday set in motion a set of highly unexpected happenings, and eventually led to the highly entertaining UFC 200 press conference last night, at which ‘The Notorious’ was not present. Although he had swiftly un-retired just days after that first announcement, the damage was apparently already done. The beef seems to have come from McGregor’s reluctance to attend the first week of media obligations for his scheduled UFC 200 rematch with Nate Diaz, something the promotion was not willing to accept.

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Dana White confirmed that McGregor was being pulled from the July 9 mega fight with Diaz, in a strange twist of circumstances. We all sat back and witnessed the Irish star rise to prominence in just a matter of years under the UFC banner, and suddenly he is throwing a spanner in the works in the form of his pseudo retirement and refusal to commit to the media tour. So how/why has this happened? Well, assuming that the facts thus far are accurate, this seems to be a kind of phallic comparison between McGregor and the UFC brass.

During the UFC 200 presser last night (April 22, 2016) McGregor sent out another Tweet, this time pointing out how much he’d made the UFC in his last eight month/three fight stretch…

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