Conor McGregor (right) and Eddie Alvarez (left( at a UFC press conference yesterday
A tired luvvie in a fur coat
Tried to grab the world’s press by the throat
But his act with a chair
Failed to go anywhere
And his one-liners hit a bum note.
John Moynes
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I love any irish success story, gladly admit I’m a bandwagon jumper, but he’s just a complete knob head.
And thug.
Explain please.
UFC is WWE with swearwords.
That’s very good :)
The legacy of UFC clogs up A+Es all over this island every Saturday night: enthusiastic neophytes of pankration in grey trackies with kilo bags of frozen oven chips held to their battered faces.
It’s just the popular sport of the day though.
Remember back in our day Neilo, when snooker was all the rage?
Gangs of mullet headed lads in tuxedos rampaging through the streets, drawing blue chalk lines around their battered victims….
( I may have dreamt this )
I didn’t dream my highly stylin’ Dennis Taylor face furniture*, Bertie: a look so enduring it re-entered vogue with the immortal Blanche in Coronation St during the noughties.
*My glasses are pure Harry Palmer with a soupcon of Nigel Powers thrown in.
I’m currently sporting a Kirk Stevens white tux.
I know where it’s at.
I’m SWIMMING in a Bill Werbenuik number…
You obviously haven’t been adhering to Bill’s strict “20 pints a day” regime.
I have a Cliff Thorburn tache and a Ray (prince darkness) Reardon haircut
Hi Mum.
@Niallo: you are Terry Richardson and I claim my £5
Hopefully he goes the same way as Tyson Fury.
Suffering from depression and talking (thankfully) about how he’s contemplated suicide?
Indeed, Repro: Tyson’s a troubled man but his openness in relation to mental health is commendable.
This pre-fight stuff is trite and utterly predictable. While I admire the fighters’ athleticism, I loathe Dana White, the billionaire carnival barker who is no better than he ought to be.
Major Trump supporter too, naturally.
I hope he’s caught looking when he should be ducking.
Team Alvarez!
All the kids love it now, scary stuff
Said every parent about every popular sport with a tint of violence in the history of human kind.
Don’t forget music! Modern music is rubbish unlike in the 70’s when Gary Glitter and co rocked it out. Also, modern sportsmen are wusses compared to those of yesteryear.
when i was a kid it was kids going around kicking each other after watching Power Rangers.
Now they choke eachother out
… https://youtu.be/bwoEMyzU8U4
“a tint of violence”
Have you seen the guys going around mopping the blood off the mat after each fight in these events
After many fights yes but not all. This is a violent sport. There is a warning to that effect at the start of every broadcast. Have you never seen footage of GAA, soccer or rugby players with blood injuries? Have you never seen corner men in boxing trying to stem the flow of blood from cuts received? What about all those videos of soccer players breaking legs? Any sport that involves physical contact has the potential for injury. Sometimes that injury results in cuts. This is not unique to MMA.
*ahem*
Joao Carvalho
Ah yes, the only sportsman ever to die in any sporting event in the history of sport.
Oh, wait…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing
His death was an avoidable tragedy but it was also, thankfully, a unique event.
To be fair Repro Bertie, it’s estimated that there are over 250 million worldwide who play soccer regularly and most of that list you linked to died as a result of cardiac arrest, not being beaten senseless.
Give him a Burger King crown
And tell him to put the chair down
Then sit down and reflect
That if he wants respect
He has to stop acting the clown
‘Sport’ of the underclass. People who offer nothing to society love this stuff.
…I think you’ll find that they have just used democracy to elect Trump and achieve brexit…
It wasn’t the “underclass” that delivered a Trump presidency. Low paid workers voted Clinton, the rich voted Trump.
This might be the most wrong thing i’ve read to
Then here’s a few more “wrong things”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw0OV_MXEAAm9QW.jpg:large
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/white-voters-victory-donald-trump-exit-polls
Ooops!
Don’t be an idiot.
woah. classist, much?
No, no. You’re supposed to hate the rich, Tish/Mr T.
You’re forgetting your character again.
What the hell is he wearing? His stylist must have a very good sense of humour.
It’s a Joe Frazier reference, 1974.
Reading the comments here,
I think it’s pretty clear,
That there’s ne’er a fight fan near.
Its not that people are not fight fans, he’s just not liked by anyone with a brain. Id love nothing more than to see a good fight but like boxing it very rarely lives up to the hype.
missed his last fight then?
it was boring.
Just because he bloodied some ones face doesn’t make it exciting.
Boxing may not be in vogue these days, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t good fights. There are problems getting the best to fight the best though, due to the proliferation of different promotions.
A problem from which MMA is largely free, with only a few major organisations competing over talent. To that end, there’s great fights on almost every week. Just the other day Ferguson/RDA was an absolute cracker.
In short, I respectfully disagree. And we’ll leave it at that.
Are those yoga pants or is Conor dressed like an unholy melange of Huggy Bear and The Riddler?
If no eyesight.
Am I a snob for thinking that “press conference” is the most uncouth thing I’ve ever seen!
It’s what happens in “sports” where people beat the lard out of each other, braggart men act like kids in a playground to make themselves look big and to generate publicity.
Soap opera for boys.
Women do it too unfortunately
The premier league is the biggest soap opera for boys what with all the plotlines around managers not liking each other and players falling out and all the other off field guff that takes up more press time than the actual games.
And when the games start, they’re often 0-0 “absorbing encounters”. UFC is very much not my thing but at least there’s the chance of a little excitement.
Not necessarily, Whevs, but this isn’t an occasion for those of us who favour cakestands and doilies. If that were the case, we’d be seeing Alan Bennett take on Brian Sewell in the octagon.
the state of the jacket .. id love to know what went on, instead of tryin to figure it out from a fuppin limerick. but sounds like he was actin like a complete idiot .. obvo didnt learn from losing the first fight to diaz, that if he acts like that and loses he looks really stupid.
he’s no rats, that’s for sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtWmMwATEGA
It’s no secret that I’m a McGregor fan. This media circus stuff is what draws the viewers and that’s what makes him the UFC’s biggest pay day. It doesn’t hurt that he backs it up in the octagon. I fully expect him to win this weekend and become the first dual weight champion. He’ll probably give up the featherweight title then and stay at lightweight which is a better fit for his size.
McGregor is a fighter and some people find that distasteful (A&E rooms being overcrowded with drunken brawlers is not something that only came along with the rise of UFC) but he’s also a guy with an incredible work ethic and discipline. He’s a perfect example for anyone that through hard work and dedication dreams can be achieved.
“he’s also a guy with an incredible work ethic and discipline”
It’s nonsense to use this as a reason to admire him. Serial killers have discipline and work ethic. Dictators do. Assassins do. This chump is a freak show making millions more for others than for himself. He is no example to follow. He plays a game that has no real rules, no respect for the nature of sport.
Kids should be admiring people for their contribution to good societies where people let others live in peace and show empathy and care towards others who are not able to cope so well.
No child of mine will think some monkey in a cage is something is aspire to.
“He plays a game that has no real rules, no respect for the nature of sport.”
If there are no real rules then why is there a referee in the octagon?
To hold their cans?
You have no idea what you are talking about.
It’s nonsense to use hard work and discipline, two qualities that are required to succeed in anything in life, as a reason to admire him? Well if you want to encourage your kids to think that just breezing through will be enough that’s your choice.
While you’re looking for people who contribute to good societies and “show empathy and care towards others who are not able to cope so well” for your kids to admire you might want to take a look at that fella from Crumlin who donated €50K to homeless charities. Give me a minute and I’m sure I’ll remember his name…
Hold the goddamned phone: another absolutely anodyne comment of mine has been removed. Broadsheet’s Ministry Of Truth strikes again!
Boy M5/ Mr T; You wrote: ‘No child of mine will think some monkey in a cage is something is aspire to.’ – yet, you are an ardent supporter of Sinn Féin, and, by proxy its Kangaroo Courts, particularly in relation to other peoples’ children and young relatives [male or female]; so, is it a case of Monkey See, Monkey Do, or does that not apply to you and yours?
m&a is trash it’s just 2 guys pretending to do boxing for a minute then they grab each other and roll around on the floor for 45 mins a good street fighter would finish any of them off
No, I can guarantee you that a “good street fighter” wouldn’t finish any of them off.
Nice work on promoting actual thuggery over sport though.
5 rounds of 5 minutes.
Money can buy you lots of things. Hard to buy class. He is trying to sell tickets. He has to win.
McGregor studied marketing while recovering from a serious knee injury.
Turns out he’s very good at it.
Don’t get angry at him. He’s putting on a show.
it ain’t called show business for nothing..