No, just marginalized.

Tiger: [sheepishly walks up to hot babe]

Pick up the fucking check, Tiger. Asshole.

New examples of completely predictable behavior by someone raised by a helicopter parent in a bubble to do exactly one thing really well.

It’s not effective when you replace the spacers of water between beers with Jack Daniels.

It’s why this countries going to shit, so many people truly believe you should be grateful for anything they give you regardless if it’s explotive or not. A bunch of no dick having yes men

If you had an independent contractor who said “i can’t work on your apartment/house this week, because I had something personal come up” would you be upset and call off everything? No, you wouldn’t.

Conor is the UFC’s hottest property right now. His absence from one promotion will not make or break the UFC 200 sales.…

Have you considered the possibility - and this is a longshot I know -that it just might be possible that McGregor, who can afford to pay a very good lawyer, has a slightly better idea what his contract legally requires him to do than a random internet commenter who has never seen said contract.

This actually always infuriates me when fans back management: owners fuck over athletes constantly, with the fallback position of “what, you aren’t grateful to make millions?” (while I, the owner makes 10X what you do) When an athlete wakes up and says “you know what, if you can tear up my contract, I can too” fans…

But we all know pro sports contracts are meaningless - teams cut players, UFC cuts fighters all the time. If they can do it, why can’t he?

I’m not sure you and I will agree on who exactly is “the boss,” here!

Dunno, it seems like a pretty good position to me. Refusing to take orders from a remora piece of shit like Dana White is the right move, every time.

Lost a lot of credibility when he shrugged off the question on his multiple appearances on Info Wars.

McGregor fake retiring has gotten the fight more publicity than an infinite number of press conferences. He is better at his job than Dana White is. Let the man work.

Well, to be completely fair though, it’s not like Dana did that as a favor to him. Dana did it because he was a huge draw and that’s what would make Dana and the UFC the most money.

Won’t anyone think of the children!?!? They need to learn that killing a dude is a-okay, but refusing to do a horse-and-pony show is a fucking crime against humanity.

Sure, which is why (I would speculate) McGregor is refusing to do it. “You need me more than I need you for your biggest show ever, and I’m perfectly willing to blow it up both because I don’t really want to fly from Iceland to hype the card and because I want to show I’m the real boss here” is a reasonable position.

Yeah, but does he actually have any point?

To be honest, I was hoping the Tuohy article would be more interesting, more detailed and more salacious. It was a big disappointment.