WWE stars respond to McGregor
WWE stars take Conor McGregor’s word personal, hit back.
Conor McGregor may have bit off more than he can chew when he took aim at professional wrestlers during a recent UFC 202 media event:
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“For the most part, those WWE guys are p***ies, to be honest,” replied McGregor, as transcribed by Marc Raimondi for MMA Fighting. “They’re messed up p***ies, if you ask me. Fair play to Brock, he got in and fought, but at the end of the day he was juiced up to the f***ing eye balls, so how can I respect that? And then what’s the other guy? The other guy hasn’t fought yet, so I don’t know about him yet.”
McGregor later apologized for his statement on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/762184752996634624
Despite the apology, and in some cases before it, some of the WWE’s biggest stars took to social media to respond and even call-out McGregor:
https://twitter.com/RicFlairNatrBoy/status/762349767166799872https://twitter.com/RicFlairNatrBoy/status/762351089266089985https://twitter.com/RusevBUL/status/762342235358662656https://twitter.com/The305MVP/status/762272472884387844https://twitter.com/BaronCorbinWWE/status/762340857567584256https://twitter.com/AJStylesOrg/status/762342384201895937https://twitter.com/AJStylesOrg/status/762357346651758592https://twitter.com/WWERomanReigns/status/762301317939245057https://twitter.com/RealKurtAngle/status/762294907717292033https://twitter.com/SashaBanksWWE/status/762309407615188992https://twitter.com/IAmJericho/status/762348547148840960
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