Conor McGregor is on one of his YouTube channels talking about the disaster that was his UFC 329 main event fight opposite Max Holloway. The video is here, but I’m going to tell you the most interesting parts of it now (and also not give you a Bible story).
In that video McGregor talked about the ending of the fight, which happened after he blew his knee outon a shaky leaping switch kick and then proceeded to buckle and roll back while a confused Holloway wondered aloud what on earth was going on.
McGregor seems to think that the fight should have continued, despite his damaged state.
“I’ll tell you what, it wasn’t me calling for the finish of the fight,” he said. “It wasn’t me calling to finish it. If I fight you and you look for the ref, ‘Ref, stop the fight!’, who stops the fight? Don’t stop. Finish the f**king fight. You’re the man calling for the fight to be stopped. The fight’s only began.”
This reads a lot like McGregor trying to save face for what will go down as one of the most anti-climatic moments in UFC and MMA history. “It’s all good,” though — claimed McGregor.
“It’s all good. We do our work. We stay on the track and we get retribution.”
McGregor added that he “yearns” for retribution. Though, he didn’t say if that somehow involved Holloway. “I have this task ahead of me,” McGregor continued. “I have the title of the greatest comeback in sports history.”
In this video the 38-year-old McGregor also said that his catastrophic kick was something he was nailing in training.
“I had the shot,” he said. “I was landing it perfectly in training. My sparring partners were coming forward. It was WA BOOM! And I just had set it in my head. I don’t care when this bell rings. Last time I was in this Octagon, the leg snapped in half. I’m going to run forward and charge and fly across the Octagon and crack him in the jaw.”
McGregor’s botched comeback puts him on the sidelines for at least another year. It could be much longer if the UFC isn’t enthused about letting McGregor fight the last fight on his contract (and then go and make someone else money).
McGregor clearly wants to get back in as soon as he can, though. And it’s obvious why. The UFC has long since moved on from the McGregor era and, I think, so has the fanbase. The best offer on the table for McGregor now is double-dipping in BKFC as a promoter and a fighter (with a hand-picked opponent).
There’s also boxing Islam Makhachev, apparently.
