June 19, 2025 • 14 mins
Conor McGregor does it again... Wade breaks down Conor McGregor's recent attack on a fan in a nightclub in Ibiza.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is wrong with Connor McGregor legitimately? What the is
wrong with this guy? Just pisces me off? How does
he go from videos like this? He's up here training
with this that's.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Step that hill is folks, all right, champ ready to go. Yeah,
I'm gonna feel exactly this is it? Yeah, hey, and you're.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Not gonna lie that laugh. Might be the underlying demon
that Connor McGregor suppresses around his family coming out for
just a short billion because he's my polar I don't
think you can call pressure.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, there's not enough pressure on us. Put more pressure
on us because it's light walk. But let's go win
to your position three two one go go go go
go fast class fast.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes, there you go. That's the pace. That's the pace.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Come on, that is going Come on, come on, come on,
catch him, catch him, Come on, hume on, come up
all the way, all the way, all the way, all
the way all day. Stay strong, stay strong, stay structured.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That's how pu get it. Now, you get it, now
get it now you go to a long ass run.
He goes from doing something like that, and you even
see d deviling with the hard eyes and everybody's like nice,
good work. He's like putting more pressure on us. Yeah, no,
the north pressure goes. Here's light wook. He's a psycho.
(01:23):
But also he's doing this ship now it is the
Sun reporting, But I mean this is clear video evidence.
Conra gregor floors a man with two punches in some
club and a biza talking to the fella. Boom, a
little slap and then the left hand over the top
and there goes the guy flying. Guy said something Connor
(01:48):
didn't like. Boom, a little slap and then a punch.
What could the guy have done? Honestly, I see people
in chass hand. Maybe the guy did something to warrant it.
What what could he have done? Is that merors that
look like true Jordy. If Connor keeps growing like a
good boy and get some inches of height as well
as his massive HGH frame, he could look like true Jordan.
(02:12):
Probably a Habib fan. Still, you don't get listen. If
you're Connor McGregor and you've had this many issues outside
of the cage, slapping the old man, punching people, taking phones,
stomping them, doing all this other shit, it gets to
a point where it's like you have to know you're
the celebrity in the room. You have to know that
motherfuckers are gonna try to push your buttons. Dude, what
someone comes up and he's like, ahhabi beat your ass.
(02:34):
Remember in Vegas a couple of weeks, like it was
a couple months ago, he spit on the guy and
he told him. He's like, I spit on you. You
have to realize people are gonna troll you forever. Not
saying that it's right for a guy to come up
and talk shit and walk away, but for Connor to
start punching people after they say something he doesn't like
(02:56):
is also not right and worse. The old man didn't
even do nothing, oh man was just sitting there. It's
not like he gave the guy another chance where he
slapped him and he was like say it again. No,
he slapped him and then dropped the left hand on him.
I'll ask you guys this, If you're that guy, Let's
say the punch doesn't even hurt, right, Let's say he's
not even hurting you with the punch. Do you flop
(03:18):
you take the slap and then he hits you with
the punch, and then do you just like flop over
and like hope that you can sue him. Is that
is that where we're at the society, Because it looked
like that's I mean, the dude fell and he for
sure guy hit with a big time shot pull back
counter right. All right, I'm sure your pullback counter right
is gonna work on Connor. I'm punching back. I think
I could win, Yes, full Ridolfo Pilato facts. Dude, I'm
(03:42):
pulling a Bilato out here. Fucking he feels so privileged,
thinks he can punch anybody he wants. I mean, yeah,
this is just a bad look again from Connor McGregor.
What are we supposed to say at this point? I
wonder what the guy said to him. It probably had
to do with a beb, you know, that's the That's
probably the only thing I can imagine that would set
him off that quickly, or like mic Chicken or like
(04:05):
you know, you tap like Chicken, some dumb shit. But still, yeah,
I'm not surprised. It doesn't surprise me. It's just another
long line of like Connor being an idiot. Damn that
dude did hit the floor floor. Oh my god. Gregor's
then shielded from clubgoers by his own friends. Okay, then
(04:27):
what happens. Then we just stand there and it just
kind of goes back. Your wofe is Amy Dams. Hey, baby,
someone said that man Terres McKinnie, What the hell that
man gonna get paid for fighting Connor? Before? Chandler not
defending Connor here because nothing really can justify this. But
it got to wonder what the man said to him.
If the first thing that we ask is what did
(04:49):
the guy say to him? I think we're thinking about
this the wrong way. Not to excuse the guy for
just popping up at the mouth and saying some crazy shit,
but he didn't physically put hands on him, at least
not in this video. We didn't see anything like that.
Someone says something you don't like, you can't haul off
and assault them. Dude. It's not how the world works.
And Connor has probably had a ton of of, you know,
civil suits that he's had to settle for doing shit
(05:09):
like that. We we probably don't even know about some
of them. He probably said something about his kids. Why
why you keep spamming? He probably said something about his kids.
What would this guy walk up to Connor McGregor and
be like, your kids are shit? Like? What? Why would
anybody do that. Why would you guys are saying he
talked about Connor's family. Who what? Why? Maybe the guy
was drunk, so when you get drunk, you go up
(05:30):
to if there's a celebrity near you, you start bad
mouthing their kids. No, dude, The more likely option is
he said something about Connor's fighting ability or habib or
his whiskey or things that Connor's known for, not like, hey,
fuck you and your kids. And even if he did
say that new convo starter, even if he said something
(05:52):
about Connor's wife, you still can't punch him in the
fucking face. I'm not saying that the guy's right for
doing it if that's what happened, but you can't. You
can't assault people for just saying things to you. The
guy has absolutely no reason to say anything about his kids, exactly.
You guys are making up a scenario, dude. Unless this
is like some fucking Kinahan Irish mob thing that Connor
is I've heard at least got some loose connections to potentially,
(06:14):
which is again another seventh layer of hair. Yeah, he
probably said something about the whiskey or something about Connor's
fighting ability. I know you guys are fans of Connor.
I am one of the biggest American born fans of
Connor McGregor. This is just the truth. I loved Connor McGregor.
I loved his fight style, I loved his attitude, I
loved his commitment. I loved all of it. I loved
(06:36):
the whole story. But you have to call a spade
a spade. The guy when he gets liquored up when
he's out at a club, I don't even know if
it's liquor. I think it's just Connor's natural ego that
comes to the surface and the liquor helps it get there.
Because you can blame the liquor, you can blame the
and you can blame the drugs all you want, but
at a certain point, they're just a reflection of the
personality type you've become. Like Old Connor was not like that.
(06:58):
Old Connor. When I say old Connor, I mean before money.
You could say money did it to him. I don't know.
But ego, even in the face of like people not
believing in him, wasn't that. When he had a little
bit of money and he started developing an ego and
started to be around fans and people that you know
outside of just Ireland. This stuff started happening more and more. Really,
when he started losing and people started heckling more and more.
(07:21):
Maybe the guy handed him the wrong coke. Money just
showed Connor's true colors. I don't know, man, because I
don't think that money enhances something you already are. Sometimes
I think it can turn you into something that you
weren't before. Like, I think money changes people, I really do.
I think that it can be mitigated, for sure, and
you can still be the same person who always were.
(07:42):
But I think having that amount of money and a
lack of supervision or a lack of trustworthy people around
you to keep you grounded can change you. Yeah, punching
the old dude in the bar least we forget this one.
I'm sure this old guy said something about his family too, right. Nope,
just did not want to drink Connor's whiskey, and Connor
(08:05):
hauled off and punched him. Vacswage's changing. I think I'm
changing for the better. I'm in a committed relationship, kind
of take care of my family. All of that, Connor
could have killed him, Loki. Connor just fell into a
dark place and hasn't gotten out of it. I mean,
did he fall into a dark place or did he
walk into it willingly? Because he's had ever opportunity to
change his trajectory and how he is either perceived in
(08:27):
the public or the things that he gets himself into.
These are decisions, you know what I mean. When he
threw that dolly through that bus, he wasn't thinking about
the people on the bus. He was thinking about revenge.
It was a decision punched that old dude. He wasn't
thinking about fucking anything, I guess, but rage and up sea.
He was embarrassed. I guess. I don't know this thing,
same thing embarrassed. Probably Connor could Probably no joke. I'm
(08:49):
not a huge believer in therapy for everything, but Connor
could use therapy, I think definitely. Because I think he
is the macho bravado ego of Connor McGregor won't allow
him to accept what's happened to him in the second
part of his career. I think that's what it really is,
and all this pent up like I have to maintain
(09:09):
that person that I was before. I have to maintain
this invincibility to himself because no one else believes it
that he got to believe it, Wade, you also defecate
in the streets I do, the mean streets of Orange County.
Connor's gonna be on the therapist. But like think about it,
he still won't accept he lost to Habib. He won't
accept he lost to Dustin Poier and got knocked out
(09:30):
by Dustin Poier. Let's not forget that Connor got knocked
out cold, slumped on the floor by Dustin Pourier. I
don't think he accepts that. Only he accepts the bebe loss.
I think those things still probably eat at him because
if you strip everything away from Connor McGregor, one thing
you could say about him is he's a fighter. Wade.
Let's not act like it wasn't a robbery. Yeah, he's
a fighter and that's where all of his pride is.
(09:52):
Do you think he changed after the Floyd fight. I
think he got a little bit more complacent after the
Floyd fight. Yeah, I think that absolutely. That boxing money
made him more complacent, so that he took more time
away from MMA, and by the time he came back
to MMA, the game had changed. He was obviously not
as fresh, he was not as prepared. He wasn't as
switched on. It was more revenge that brought him back
versus the ability to be the greatest, which is all
(10:14):
he wanted to be beforehand. Dustin Borea made the calfkick
blow up after the Connor fight. No, that's the thing,
is like, yeah, the calfkick, you know, got a lot
of attention, but the cafkick had already had attention before that.
Before Connor got hit with the calfkick. We had DJ
doing it to Henry Shudo. We had Sean O'Malley getting
hit with it. We had TJ. Dillashat doing it. We
had a lot of people doing it before that ever
(10:35):
got Benson Henderson was the one that essentially created it
before Connor got hit with that. Dustin only started doing
it because it was done to him, But when it
happened to Connor more people went, oh my god, look
at it. It had already been four years. That's one
of the more ironic things about it, and the thing
that Connor still doesn't do and probably won't because he
want to ever fight. There were no checks, but Connor
(10:57):
was in an era of MMA that did not include it.
When he left and started doing the boxing and then
he came back and fought Habib want to be not
really known as a kicker. That part of the game
is something he didn't even spar against. He didn't even
see in sparring, let alone in a fight, until Dustin
Poier brought it to his front door, like oh shit.
So yeah, man, this is just another instance. And you
get to a point where you're like, what do we
(11:17):
even say? I'm fully done with thinking Connor's everything going
to fight again. I think that ship is sailed. But
he's talking about wanting to be a politician, and I
don't know who took that seriously. Maybe again his own
delusion believes that's gonna happen. I've been to Ireland, I've
been to Dublin and they don't even like him there.
And I hate to say it, but they don't even
like him. I talk to people that I'm around, whether
it was taxi drivers, bartenders, servers, workers in retail, anybody,
(11:43):
I could kind of work it into the conversation. They're
probably tired of it because Americans probably asked all the
time about him, but I would try to work it
into the conversation. This was in twenty twenty three, just
to see like, do they even like this guy? And
the answer was always no, we're embarrassed by him. We
don't like him. And that's sad because he was carrying
the flag for those people. And now what he's he's
(12:03):
gonna he's gonna run for political office with stuff like
this still happening. How can you trust a man? Again
hypothetically because of course this would never really happen, but
how could you trust a man to run your country
when he can't even run his life. He is so
dysfunctional in the way that he acts and carries himself.
Why would you even think that he's someone not only
(12:25):
to run your country, but to look up to in
the country as goofy shit, man, I really don't know.
It kind of worries me too, to be like, what's
gonna happen with this guy? Is he's just gonna flame
out and you know, raise his kids and be the
old scorn fighter that pushes his son into fighting and
does all that. Maybe, but I'm not expecting the old
Connor anymore. I'm not expecting that. And when I say
the old Connor, if he's not fighting, someone that is
(12:46):
around the sport, someone that is dedicated to his family
and the sport or something to where he's not just
a party animal like this and doing stupid shit. I
don't expect it anymore though, John Fury two point zero legit,
Legit looks like that could be where he's headed. No joke.
How he hasn't seen jail time. I mean, Connor is
well connected obviously in Ireland as well, super well connected
(13:07):
and can probably pay off a lot of people that
would press charges. Why the UFC aren't releasing him makes
no sense. It's a lose lose if you release Connor
because if you release him, then you don't get to
potentially make money off him, and whatever he does in
the future, it means that you'll probably never have the
opportunity to bring him back. Like then you give Connor
all the control. He went to court for the bus incident, right,
(13:28):
but he didn't go to jail. That's what I'm saying.
They stop him from boxing, they stop him from bare knuckle.
You don't want to give up that money because then
you give Connor control and Connor can do you know,
I don't want to come back. I want to do this,
this this for the rest of my career. It's kind
of fucked up. I'm not gonna lie, But at the
same time, that's business. You know what I'm saying. I
got nothing else to say other than Connor. It just
continues to disappoint, that's really. It just continues to disappoint
(13:50):
MMA fans and the people that cared about his legacy,
the people he inspired with his run up to the belt,
him winning the belt, to time Champ, all that. But
it's nothing new. I expect more of this from Connor.
I expect continuous dysfunction, and I expect him to end
up the old, bitter, scorned fighter that never got over
the two most impactful losses of his career, and it's
(14:13):
drove him to just be whatever this version of him is.
It's sad.
What is wrong with Connor McGregor legitimately? What the is
wrong with this guy? Just pisces me off? How does
he go from videos like this? He's up here training
with this that's.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Step that hill is folks, all right, champ ready to go. Yeah,
I'm gonna feel exactly this is it? Yeah, hey, and you're.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Not gonna lie that laugh. Might be the underlying demon
that Connor McGregor suppresses around his family coming out for
just a short billion because he's my polar I don't
think you can call pressure.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, there's not enough pressure on us. Put more pressure
on us because it's light walk. But let's go win
to your position three two one go go go go
go fast class fast.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes, there you go. That's the pace. That's the pace.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Come on, that is going Come on, come on, come on,
catch him, catch him, Come on, hume on, come up
all the way, all the way, all the way, all
the way all day. Stay strong, stay strong, stay structured.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That's how pu get it. Now, you get it, now
get it now you go to a long ass run.
He goes from doing something like that, and you even
see d deviling with the hard eyes and everybody's like nice,
good work. He's like putting more pressure on us. Yeah, no,
the north pressure goes. Here's light wook. He's a psycho.
(01:23):
But also he's doing this ship now it is the
Sun reporting, But I mean this is clear video evidence.
Conra gregor floors a man with two punches in some
club and a biza talking to the fella. Boom, a
little slap and then the left hand over the top
and there goes the guy flying. Guy said something Connor
(01:48):
didn't like. Boom, a little slap and then a punch.
What could the guy have done? Honestly, I see people
in chass hand. Maybe the guy did something to warrant it.
What what could he have done? Is that merors that
look like true Jordy. If Connor keeps growing like a
good boy and get some inches of height as well
as his massive HGH frame, he could look like true Jordan.
(02:12):
Probably a Habib fan. Still, you don't get listen. If
you're Connor McGregor and you've had this many issues outside
of the cage, slapping the old man, punching people, taking phones,
stomping them, doing all this other shit, it gets to
a point where it's like you have to know you're
the celebrity in the room. You have to know that
motherfuckers are gonna try to push your buttons. Dude, what
someone comes up and he's like, ahhabi beat your ass.
(02:34):
Remember in Vegas a couple of weeks, like it was
a couple months ago, he spit on the guy and
he told him. He's like, I spit on you. You
have to realize people are gonna troll you forever. Not
saying that it's right for a guy to come up
and talk shit and walk away, but for Connor to
start punching people after they say something he doesn't like
(02:56):
is also not right and worse. The old man didn't
even do nothing, oh man was just sitting there. It's
not like he gave the guy another chance where he
slapped him and he was like say it again. No,
he slapped him and then dropped the left hand on him.
I'll ask you guys this, If you're that guy, Let's
say the punch doesn't even hurt, right, Let's say he's
not even hurting you with the punch. Do you flop
(03:18):
you take the slap and then he hits you with
the punch, and then do you just like flop over
and like hope that you can sue him. Is that
is that where we're at the society, Because it looked
like that's I mean, the dude fell and he for
sure guy hit with a big time shot pull back
counter right. All right, I'm sure your pullback counter right
is gonna work on Connor. I'm punching back. I think
I could win, Yes, full Ridolfo Pilato facts. Dude, I'm
(03:42):
pulling a Bilato out here. Fucking he feels so privileged,
thinks he can punch anybody he wants. I mean, yeah,
this is just a bad look again from Connor McGregor.
What are we supposed to say at this point? I
wonder what the guy said to him. It probably had
to do with a beb, you know, that's the That's
probably the only thing I can imagine that would set
him off that quickly, or like mic Chicken or like
(04:05):
you know, you tap like Chicken, some dumb shit. But still, yeah,
I'm not surprised. It doesn't surprise me. It's just another
long line of like Connor being an idiot. Damn that
dude did hit the floor floor. Oh my god. Gregor's
then shielded from clubgoers by his own friends. Okay, then
(04:27):
what happens. Then we just stand there and it just
kind of goes back. Your wofe is Amy Dams. Hey, baby,
someone said that man Terres McKinnie, What the hell that
man gonna get paid for fighting Connor? Before? Chandler not
defending Connor here because nothing really can justify this. But
it got to wonder what the man said to him.
If the first thing that we ask is what did
(04:49):
the guy say to him? I think we're thinking about
this the wrong way. Not to excuse the guy for
just popping up at the mouth and saying some crazy shit,
but he didn't physically put hands on him, at least
not in this video. We didn't see anything like that.
Someone says something you don't like, you can't haul off
and assault them. Dude. It's not how the world works.
And Connor has probably had a ton of of, you know,
civil suits that he's had to settle for doing shit
(05:09):
like that. We we probably don't even know about some
of them. He probably said something about his kids. Why
why you keep spamming? He probably said something about his kids.
What would this guy walk up to Connor McGregor and
be like, your kids are shit? Like? What? Why would
anybody do that. Why would you guys are saying he
talked about Connor's family. Who what? Why? Maybe the guy
was drunk, so when you get drunk, you go up
(05:30):
to if there's a celebrity near you, you start bad
mouthing their kids. No, dude, The more likely option is
he said something about Connor's fighting ability or habib or
his whiskey or things that Connor's known for, not like, hey,
fuck you and your kids. And even if he did
say that new convo starter, even if he said something
(05:52):
about Connor's wife, you still can't punch him in the
fucking face. I'm not saying that the guy's right for
doing it if that's what happened, but you can't. You
can't assault people for just saying things to you. The
guy has absolutely no reason to say anything about his kids, exactly.
You guys are making up a scenario, dude. Unless this
is like some fucking Kinahan Irish mob thing that Connor
is I've heard at least got some loose connections to potentially,
(06:14):
which is again another seventh layer of hair. Yeah, he
probably said something about the whiskey or something about Connor's
fighting ability. I know you guys are fans of Connor.
I am one of the biggest American born fans of
Connor McGregor. This is just the truth. I loved Connor McGregor.
I loved his fight style, I loved his attitude, I
loved his commitment. I loved all of it. I loved
(06:36):
the whole story. But you have to call a spade
a spade. The guy when he gets liquored up when
he's out at a club, I don't even know if
it's liquor. I think it's just Connor's natural ego that
comes to the surface and the liquor helps it get there.
Because you can blame the liquor, you can blame the
and you can blame the drugs all you want, but
at a certain point, they're just a reflection of the
personality type you've become. Like Old Connor was not like that.
(06:58):
Old Connor. When I say old Connor, I mean before money.
You could say money did it to him. I don't know.
But ego, even in the face of like people not
believing in him, wasn't that. When he had a little
bit of money and he started developing an ego and
started to be around fans and people that you know
outside of just Ireland. This stuff started happening more and more. Really,
when he started losing and people started heckling more and more.
(07:21):
Maybe the guy handed him the wrong coke. Money just
showed Connor's true colors. I don't know, man, because I
don't think that money enhances something you already are. Sometimes
I think it can turn you into something that you
weren't before. Like, I think money changes people, I really do.
I think that it can be mitigated, for sure, and
you can still be the same person who always were.
(07:42):
But I think having that amount of money and a
lack of supervision or a lack of trustworthy people around
you to keep you grounded can change you. Yeah, punching
the old dude in the bar least we forget this one.
I'm sure this old guy said something about his family too, right. Nope,
just did not want to drink Connor's whiskey, and Connor
(08:05):
hauled off and punched him. Vacswage's changing. I think I'm
changing for the better. I'm in a committed relationship, kind
of take care of my family. All of that, Connor
could have killed him, Loki. Connor just fell into a
dark place and hasn't gotten out of it. I mean,
did he fall into a dark place or did he
walk into it willingly? Because he's had ever opportunity to
change his trajectory and how he is either perceived in
(08:27):
the public or the things that he gets himself into.
These are decisions, you know what I mean. When he
threw that dolly through that bus, he wasn't thinking about
the people on the bus. He was thinking about revenge.
It was a decision punched that old dude. He wasn't
thinking about fucking anything, I guess, but rage and up sea.
He was embarrassed. I guess. I don't know this thing,
same thing embarrassed. Probably Connor could Probably no joke. I'm
(08:49):
not a huge believer in therapy for everything, but Connor
could use therapy, I think definitely. Because I think he
is the macho bravado ego of Connor McGregor won't allow
him to accept what's happened to him in the second
part of his career. I think that's what it really is,
and all this pent up like I have to maintain
(09:09):
that person that I was before. I have to maintain
this invincibility to himself because no one else believes it
that he got to believe it, Wade, you also defecate
in the streets I do, the mean streets of Orange County.
Connor's gonna be on the therapist. But like think about it,
he still won't accept he lost to Habib. He won't
accept he lost to Dustin Poier and got knocked out
(09:30):
by Dustin Poier. Let's not forget that Connor got knocked
out cold, slumped on the floor by Dustin Pourier. I
don't think he accepts that. Only he accepts the bebe loss.
I think those things still probably eat at him because
if you strip everything away from Connor McGregor, one thing
you could say about him is he's a fighter. Wade.
Let's not act like it wasn't a robbery. Yeah, he's
a fighter and that's where all of his pride is.
(09:52):
Do you think he changed after the Floyd fight. I
think he got a little bit more complacent after the
Floyd fight. Yeah, I think that absolutely. That boxing money
made him more complacent, so that he took more time
away from MMA, and by the time he came back
to MMA, the game had changed. He was obviously not
as fresh, he was not as prepared. He wasn't as
switched on. It was more revenge that brought him back
versus the ability to be the greatest, which is all
(10:14):
he wanted to be beforehand. Dustin Borea made the calfkick
blow up after the Connor fight. No, that's the thing,
is like, yeah, the calfkick, you know, got a lot
of attention, but the cafkick had already had attention before that.
Before Connor got hit with the calfkick. We had DJ
doing it to Henry Shudo. We had Sean O'Malley getting
hit with it. We had TJ. Dillashat doing it. We
had a lot of people doing it before that ever
(10:35):
got Benson Henderson was the one that essentially created it
before Connor got hit with that. Dustin only started doing
it because it was done to him, But when it
happened to Connor more people went, oh my god, look
at it. It had already been four years. That's one
of the more ironic things about it, and the thing
that Connor still doesn't do and probably won't because he
want to ever fight. There were no checks, but Connor
(10:57):
was in an era of MMA that did not include it.
When he left and started doing the boxing and then
he came back and fought Habib want to be not
really known as a kicker. That part of the game
is something he didn't even spar against. He didn't even
see in sparring, let alone in a fight, until Dustin
Poier brought it to his front door, like oh shit.
So yeah, man, this is just another instance. And you
get to a point where you're like, what do we
(11:17):
even say? I'm fully done with thinking Connor's everything going
to fight again. I think that ship is sailed. But
he's talking about wanting to be a politician, and I
don't know who took that seriously. Maybe again his own
delusion believes that's gonna happen. I've been to Ireland, I've
been to Dublin and they don't even like him there.
And I hate to say it, but they don't even
like him. I talk to people that I'm around, whether
it was taxi drivers, bartenders, servers, workers in retail, anybody,
(11:43):
I could kind of work it into the conversation. They're
probably tired of it because Americans probably asked all the
time about him, but I would try to work it
into the conversation. This was in twenty twenty three, just
to see like, do they even like this guy? And
the answer was always no, we're embarrassed by him. We
don't like him. And that's sad because he was carrying
the flag for those people. And now what he's he's
(12:03):
gonna he's gonna run for political office with stuff like
this still happening. How can you trust a man? Again
hypothetically because of course this would never really happen, but
how could you trust a man to run your country
when he can't even run his life. He is so
dysfunctional in the way that he acts and carries himself.
Why would you even think that he's someone not only
(12:25):
to run your country, but to look up to in
the country as goofy shit, man, I really don't know.
It kind of worries me too, to be like, what's
gonna happen with this guy? Is he's just gonna flame
out and you know, raise his kids and be the
old scorn fighter that pushes his son into fighting and
does all that. Maybe, but I'm not expecting the old
Connor anymore. I'm not expecting that. And when I say
the old Connor, if he's not fighting, someone that is
(12:46):
around the sport, someone that is dedicated to his family
and the sport or something to where he's not just
a party animal like this and doing stupid shit. I
don't expect it anymore though, John Fury two point zero legit,
Legit looks like that could be where he's headed. No joke.
How he hasn't seen jail time. I mean, Connor is
well connected obviously in Ireland as well, super well connected
(13:07):
and can probably pay off a lot of people that
would press charges. Why the UFC aren't releasing him makes
no sense. It's a lose lose if you release Connor
because if you release him, then you don't get to
potentially make money off him, and whatever he does in
the future, it means that you'll probably never have the
opportunity to bring him back. Like then you give Connor
all the control. He went to court for the bus incident, right,
(13:28):
but he didn't go to jail. That's what I'm saying.
They stop him from boxing, they stop him from bare knuckle.
You don't want to give up that money because then
you give Connor control and Connor can do you know,
I don't want to come back. I want to do this,
this this for the rest of my career. It's kind
of fucked up. I'm not gonna lie, But at the
same time, that's business. You know what I'm saying. I
got nothing else to say other than Connor. It just
continues to disappoint, that's really. It just continues to disappoint
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MMA fans and the people that cared about his legacy,
the people he inspired with his run up to the belt,
him winning the belt, to time Champ, all that. But
it's nothing new. I expect more of this from Connor.
I expect continuous dysfunction, and I expect him to end
up the old, bitter, scorned fighter that never got over
the two most impactful losses of his career, and it's
(14:13):
drove him to just be whatever this version of him is.
It's sad.
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