joeg Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Real or ESPN reporting rumors to stir the pot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 What's a Conor McGregor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 What rumor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Clickbait and nonsense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 He tweeted he was retiring. Becky Lynch tweeted that he should join her in WWE (Irish connection, that's it). So it is off to the races Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 If he asked for 10 million for the fight with Diaz, how much could WWE feasibly offer him for a big time match? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 WWE shouldn't offer him a cent. He's not a crossover star. I barely know who he is, and others on this board know even less than me. Why bother? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Yea the "rumor" of him going to WWE is total clickbait. He is still under contract to UFC so even if he is seriously retiring from MMA (which I do not believe for a second) he can't just walk straight into WWE. Plus there is the whole issue of him being able to make way more money fighting in UFC than he can wrestling for WWE, so why even do it? I dispute the idea that he is not a crossover star though. He is the biggest star UFC has, he gets talked about on ESPN and sports radio and is on a lot of commercials. His PPVs do WAY above the average UFC PPV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOTNW Posted April 20, 2016 Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Seems like him trying to leverage a better deal. Anyway whether it's Dana or Vince he isn't worth what he's asking. On a personal note I can't stand the guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 So to the surprise of no one (except the most gullible of gullibles I suppose) Connor put out a statement that he is not retired. Time to put your pencils down on fantasy booking his WWE run. 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 fuck morning show did not get me this life.Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a fuck about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass 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.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 shit 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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