UFC boss: Why Conor McGregor is a global superstar
Conor McGregor: “Number one, first and foremost, the reason he is a global superstar and people love this guy because he’s a real fighter.”
UFC president Dana White recently sat down with Dan Hardy for an extended discussion ahead of the biggest fight in MMA history – lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. former champ champ Conor McGregor.
Everybody always talks smack that I kiss Conor’s ass and all this other stuff and Conor would completely disagree with that, I think, said White, as transcribed by Milan Ordoñez for BE. Why do you think he’s such a big star?
You think he’s such a big star because he’s funny? Yeah, that’s part of it. You think he’s such a big star because he speaks so well? Absolutely part of it. And you just keep going down the line of all these things that make him a star, but number one, first and foremost, the reason he is a global superstar and people love this guy because he’s a real fighter.
I’m the guy that makes the phone calls and here are people going ‘Yeah, I’m not gonna take that fight’ or ‘I’m not gonna do this’ or ‘I’m not gonna do that.’ Never has Conor McGregor said that.
You can hate Conor all you want; you’ve got to respect it. And I think McGregor has gotten to a point that when he first came in, a lot of the other fighters were looking at him like ‘oh, he’s this hype train’, they see now that he’s more than that. Especially even after the Mayweather fight. Look how well he did in that fight.
Conor McGregor is the real deal, man.
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Nurmagomedov and McGregor fight in the main event of UFC 229 on Saturday, October 6, in Las Vegas, Nevada.