Dana White is just not involved with Conor McGregor partying forward of his anticipated return at UFC 303.
McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) meets Michael Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) within the June 29 headliner at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. Nevertheless, a number of elements have had many skeptical if McGregor will truly make the stroll later this month.
The UFC introduced that it had “postponed” the UFC 303 pre-fight press convention that includes McGregor and Chandler about 12 hours earlier than it was set to happen Monday in Dublin. “The Infamous” has additionally been noticed a number of occasions in bars, however the UFC CEO thinks the partying might be a ploy from McGregor’s finish.
“I don’t know,” White mentioned on the FLAGRANT podcast when requested if McGregor’s partying is a advertising and marketing technique. “I actually don’t know. He opened a bar on the market: The Black Forge. I’ll let you know this, and I don’t ever like to check folks to Muhammad Ali as a result of to me, he’s the f*cking (biggest) – and f*cking what he did in preventing, simply as a human, what that man achieved, proper?
“However I don’t give a f*ck what anyone says, Ali, Conor, each degree relating to psychological warfare: the 2 better of all time relating to psychological warfare.”
White in contrast McGregor’s antics to legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, praising their means to get into their opponents’ heads.
“When you look again at Ali and also you take a look at what he did to George Foreman in Africa, you take a look at what he did to Joe Frazier, I imply all through his total f*cking profession,” White mentioned. “Joe Frazier f*cking hated Muhammad Ali so f*cking badly. He’d present up at his camp outdoors and f*cking do all this sh*t. He would predict rounds. He would provide you with f*cking unimaginable poems and sayings and issues that he would do main as much as the battle.
“Then, you take a look at Conor McGregor, he’s picked rounds. I imply, the psychological warfare that this man had on so a lot of his fighters. And he would make these guys play into his sport, get into their heads, f*cking embarrass them, and outwit them in each approach, form and kind. The Eddie Alvarez battle going into Madison Sq. Backyard – he’s actually at Ali’s degree when it got here to psychological warfare.”
As for McGregor seemingly partying simply weeks earlier than his return, White says he’s skilled the identical with UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones previously.
“I’m at a spot proper now with the Conor McGregors and the Jon Jones, the place, you recognize, they’ve type of laid the muse of their legacy and what they’ve, and so they’ve made a sh*tload of cash,” White mentioned. “And it’s on the level now the place when these guys do present up and battle, it’s enjoyable. It’s enjoyable after they present up and battle.”
In his most up-to-date replace, McGregor posted a photograph on the physician’s workplace with a smile on his face, main many to imagine that he could have suffered an harm.
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