In addition to opening up about his “publicized civil war” with UFC management to ESPN on Sunday morning, UFC Featherweight Champion “The Notorious” Conor McGregor also addressed the recent talk about a potential boxing match between he and boxing’s fo…
In addition to opening up about his “publicized civil war” with UFC management to ESPN on Sunday morning, UFC Featherweight Champion “The Notorious” Conor McGregor also addressed the recent talk about a potential boxing match between he and boxing’s former pound-for-pound king and undisputed top draw Floyd Mayweather Jr.
“It was him that leaked the rumor,” McGregor said. “He gets $100 million, and I get $7 million? That is a pay cut to me. I don’t take pay cuts. I thought boxing was where the money was at. Seven million is absolutely laughable. He’s talking $100 million. I’m also talking $100 million. I’m 27 years of age and I’m just about halfway through a $100 million contract.”
McGregor continued, breaking down the financial side of the rumors regarding a proposed bout with “Money” Mayweather.
“At 27 years of age, Floyd Mayweather was on Oscar de la Hoya’s undercard. Compare that. Who doesn’t want to conquer both worlds? He’s getting old now. I have the size, I have the reach, I have the height. I have the youth. He needs me, I don’t need him. That’s the truth of it. Who else he can fight? He fights someone else in the boxing realm, all of a sudden the pay goes from $100 million to $15 million. He needs me. If he wants to talk, we can talk, but it’s me who is in control here.”
As McGregor explained, he doesn’t necessarily care about the fact that the rumored bout would be under boxing rules, not the MMA rules he has mastered throughout his professional career.
“I don’t really care about rules,” McGregor said. “He can make all the rules he wants. I know he will not want to fight in a mixed martial arts contest in a true fight. If he wants to fight in a limited fight, that’s no problem we can do that. I will set a aside the many forms of fighting that I practice in and I will focus on one particular craft.”
H/T to MMAFighting.com for transcribing the above Conor McGregor quotes.
On Sunday, reigning UFC Featherweight Champion “The Notorious” Conor McGregor opened up with ESPN about what he is calling a “publicized civil war” he has been having with UFC management.
As McGregor explained, there was a lot going on, and all he really wanted to do was properly train for a 170-pound immediate rematch with the first man to beat him inside the Octagon, Nate Diaz.
“I was in a time where I was like, figuring out something,” McGregor said. “I didn’t just shut out and say no to everything. I just wanted to do reasonable media, and then, hey, all of a sudden, ‘Conor, it’s three months from the fight, we’ve got to drag you (onto) 40-hour flights to come and do a runaround, New York, Vegas, California, 70 press conferences, 70 talk shows, adverts, all of this,’ and it’s like, I already made you $400 million last week. That was only last week, that fight. I need to get right.”
McGregor continued, “That’s how it all came about. I just wanted to focus and I was deep in the process, and especially at that particular moment, I just wanted a little bit more time. I didn’t shut it off completely. Reasonable media, is what I said. I said I would do New York. I said I would do everything else after that. I just needed another little bit to set myself, and then the lack of communication, they weren’t having it. They were trying to push back on me, I was trying to push back on them, and look, it blew up then.”
UFC’s reigning 145-pound champion would go on, explaining that at the start he was basically having some fun, but things got a bit out of hand.
“I’ll tell you what, it blew up,” McGregor said. “I was just kind of having fun at the start. It was kind of half-hearted, and then it just went [crazy], and now all of a sudden you’re off UFC 200, and I was like, ‘alright, well f*ck you too then.’ It was fun. Seeing it all blow up like that, it was amusing for a while.
“There were times when I was … seeing the press conferences take place, and I was like, ah, I should’ve just jumped on the damn flight. I should’ve just stuck it out and went with it. But sometimes you’ve gotta do what’s right for you, and not do what’s right for everybody else — and especially if you’ve done what’s right for everybody else a million times over, you should have the right to be able to do what’s right for you sometimes. That’s what I felt.”
According to “The Notorious” one, he left things between he and the UFC “in a good place.”
“I’m committed to the fight game,” McGregor said. “I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. So, if a challenge is in front of me, and it appeals to me, then I will go and I will conquer it. I’m open to challenges. I enjoy fighting, period.”
H/T to MMAFighting.com for transcribing the above Conor McGregor quotes.
Conor McGregor described the UFC 200 situation with the promotion as a publicised civil war. pic.twitter.com/V41PFU1RZT
On Sunday, reigning UFC Featherweight Champion “The Notorious” Conor McGregor opened up with ESPN about what he is calling a “publicized civil war” he has been having with UFC management.
As McGregor explained, there was a lot going on, and all he really wanted to do was properly train for a 170-pound immediate rematch with the first man to beat him inside the Octagon, Nate Diaz.
“I was in a time where I was like, figuring out something,” McGregor said. “I didn’t just shut out and say no to everything. I just wanted to do reasonable media, and then, hey, all of a sudden, ‘Conor, it’s three months from the fight, we’ve got to drag you (onto) 40-hour flights to come and do a runaround, New York, Vegas, California, 70 press conferences, 70 talk shows, adverts, all of this,’ and it’s like, I already made you $400 million last week. That was only last week, that fight. I need to get right.”
McGregor continued, “That’s how it all came about. I just wanted to focus and I was deep in the process, and especially at that particular moment, I just wanted a little bit more time. I didn’t shut it off completely. Reasonable media, is what I said. I said I would do New York. I said I would do everything else after that. I just needed another little bit to set myself, and then the lack of communication, they weren’t having it. They were trying to push back on me, I was trying to push back on them, and look, it blew up then.”
UFC’s reigning 145-pound champion would go on, explaining that at the start he was basically having some fun, but things got a bit out of hand.
“I’ll tell you what, it blew up,” McGregor said. “I was just kind of having fun at the start. It was kind of half-hearted, and then it just went [crazy], and now all of a sudden you’re off UFC 200, and I was like, ‘alright, well f*ck you too then.’ It was fun. Seeing it all blow up like that, it was amusing for a while.
“There were times when I was … seeing the press conferences take place, and I was like, ah, I should’ve just jumped on the damn flight. I should’ve just stuck it out and went with it. But sometimes you’ve gotta do what’s right for you, and not do what’s right for everybody else — and especially if you’ve done what’s right for everybody else a million times over, you should have the right to be able to do what’s right for you sometimes. That’s what I felt.”
According to “The Notorious” one, he left things between he and the UFC “in a good place.”
“I’m committed to the fight game,” McGregor said. “I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. So, if a challenge is in front of me, and it appeals to me, then I will go and I will conquer it. I’m open to challenges. I enjoy fighting, period.”
H/T to MMAFighting.com for transcribing the above Conor McGregor quotes.
While the next season of The Ultimate Fighter will feature flyweights vying for a shot at the UFC championship, one contender in the division doesn’t plan on tuning in at all.
Ian McCall, who is rumored for a return to the Octagon at UFC 201 vs. Jus…
While the next season of The Ultimate Fighter will feature flyweights vying for a shot at the UFC championship, one contender in the division doesn’t plan on tuning in at all.
Ian McCall, who is rumored for a return to the Octagon at UFC 201 vs. Justin Scoggins, voiced his displeasure with TUF on Twitter recently.
Th 31-year-old McCall (13-5-1) had his two-fight win streak snapped in early 2015 at the hands of John Lineker. He lost to Demetrious Johnson, the current UFC champion, back in 2012 in the tournament semifinals after their first bout was declared a majority draw.
Apparently the meeting between Nate Diaz and the UFC brass didn’t go quite as smoothly as their recent meeting with “The Notorious” Conor McGregor.
As noted, UFC management, including Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta, met with McGregor earlier this w…
Apparently the meeting between Nate Diaz and the UFC brass didn’t go quite as smoothly as their recent meeting with “The Notorious” Conor McGregor.
As noted, UFC management, including Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta, met with McGregor earlier this week to attempt to settle their dispute with the reigning UFC 145-pound champion.
Shortly after their meeting, UFC contender Nate Diaz reportedly requested that they meet with him in his hometown of Stockton, California.
White and Fertitta would oblige, and according to TMZ, met with Diaz only for White to lose his cool at some point during the meeting. According to various reports, White stormed out of a restaurant where the meeting was held.
Prior to the meeting, the UFC brass posed for the following picture of a Nate Diaz mural taken from the first fight with McGregor.
The complete lineup for UFC 199 has been announced, and BJ Penn’s return will take place on FOX Sports 1.
Penn vs. Cole Miller will main event the FS1 prelims on June 4 from California and The Forum. Along with that fight, three others will air on t…
The complete lineup for UFC 199 has been announced, and BJ Penn’s return will take place on FOX Sports 1.
Penn vs. Cole Miller will main event the FS1 prelims on June 4 from California and The Forum. Along with that fight, three others will air on the network following four early UFC Fight Pass bouts.
Headlined by two title fights, the pay-per-view main card features Luke Rockhold-Michael Bisping and Dominick Cruz-Urijah Faber.
The complete lineup can be found below:
MAIN CARD (PPV/10 p.m. ET)
UFC Middleweight Championship
Luke Rockhold (c) vs. Michael Bisping
UFC Bantamweight Championship
Dominick Cruz (c) vs. Urijah Faber
Featherweight: Max Holloway vs. Ricardo Lamas
Middleweight: Dan Henderson vs. Hector Lombard
Lightweight: Dustin Poirier vs. Bobby Green
PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX Sports 1/8 p.m. ET)
Featherweight: BJ Penn vs. Cole Miller
Featherweight: Clay Guida vs. Brian Ortega
Lightweight: Beneil Dariush vs. James Vick
Strawweight: Jessica Penne vs. Jessica Andrade
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass/6 p.m. ET)
Welterweight: Sean Strickland vs. Tom Breese
Light Heavyweight: Luiz Henrique da Silva vs. Jonathan Wilson
Apparently Matt Brown doesn’t think very highly of UFC Welterweight title contender Tyron Woodley.
While speaking with Jonathan Shrager of MMA Underground this week (watch above), “The Immortal” one made it clear that he isn’t a big fan of “The Chosen One.”
“[Tyron] Woodley, he’s a bitch,” said Brown. “I just don’t like him anyway. I’d fight him in the f**king street for free.”
Brown would elaborate, explaining his dislike for the UFC 170-pound contender, who will be the next man to challenge Robbie Lawler for the UFC Welterweight Championship at UFC 201 in July.
“You go all the way back, he turned down fights. I know he turned down Hector Lombard saying, ‘he’s a teammate’ and then Hector’s like, ‘we’re not teammates, f*ck you, I’ll fight you.’ So that’s a clear bitch move.
“And then sitting out for a year and a half begging for a title shot, coming over a win over – what’s Gastelum? Probably fourteen or fifteen [in the rankings] – a very unimpressive win over a sick Gastellum. He had the flu, right. Missed weight by ten pounds.”
Brown’s anti-Woodley rant wouldn’t end there.
“I’ll tell you what originally kind of got me disliking Woodley is how he claims that he won over Carlos Condit. That’s just simply not a win. You cannot claim that a win. Yeah you won the first round but you won the fight by default. Condit got hurt. Condit’s not a one round fighter. You don’t see Condit win too many fights in the first round. He gets stronger as the fight goes on and he was just starting to pick it up on Woodley and Woodley is a one round fighter.
“Then he’s always on Twitter just talking and he told me to keep my name out of his mouth when he’s the one talking to me. He’s just not the personality that I like. He’s not a warrior, he’s not a soldier. If we were on the battlefields in the 1200’s, in the Medieval, the Dark Ages, this motherf*cker would be back hiding in the bushes while guys like me, I’d be on the fucking front lines with a sword in my hand. He’d be over in the f*cking bushes throwing tomatoes and shit or something. So he’s not my kind of person.”
Brown concluded, “He’s getting the title shot. I can’t complain about that. I worry about myself. I ain’t worried about what he’s doing but I think Lawler’s gonna knock him out pretty good.”
UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley is scheduled for July 30, 2016 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
Apparently Matt Brown doesn’t think very highly of UFC Welterweight title contender Tyron Woodley.
While speaking with Jonathan Shrager of MMA Underground this week (watch above), “The Immortal” one made it clear that he isn’t a big fan of “The Chosen One.”
“[Tyron] Woodley, he’s a bitch,” said Brown. “I just don’t like him anyway. I’d fight him in the f**king street for free.”
Brown would elaborate, explaining his dislike for the UFC 170-pound contender, who will be the next man to challenge Robbie Lawler for the UFC Welterweight Championship at UFC 201 in July.
“You go all the way back, he turned down fights. I know he turned down Hector Lombard saying, ‘he’s a teammate’ and then Hector’s like, ‘we’re not teammates, f*ck you, I’ll fight you.’ So that’s a clear bitch move.
“And then sitting out for a year and a half begging for a title shot, coming over a win over – what’s Gastelum? Probably fourteen or fifteen [in the rankings] – a very unimpressive win over a sick Gastellum. He had the flu, right. Missed weight by ten pounds.”
Brown’s anti-Woodley rant wouldn’t end there.
“I’ll tell you what originally kind of got me disliking Woodley is how he claims that he won over Carlos Condit. That’s just simply not a win. You cannot claim that a win. Yeah you won the first round but you won the fight by default. Condit got hurt. Condit’s not a one round fighter. You don’t see Condit win too many fights in the first round. He gets stronger as the fight goes on and he was just starting to pick it up on Woodley and Woodley is a one round fighter.
“Then he’s always on Twitter just talking and he told me to keep my name out of his mouth when he’s the one talking to me. He’s just not the personality that I like. He’s not a warrior, he’s not a soldier. If we were on the battlefields in the 1200’s, in the Medieval, the Dark Ages, this motherf*cker would be back hiding in the bushes while guys like me, I’d be on the fucking front lines with a sword in my hand. He’d be over in the f*cking bushes throwing tomatoes and shit or something. So he’s not my kind of person.”
Brown concluded, “He’s getting the title shot. I can’t complain about that. I worry about myself. I ain’t worried about what he’s doing but I think Lawler’s gonna knock him out pretty good.”
UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley is scheduled for July 30, 2016 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
