Rumored Conor McGregor seemingly wants to fight out his contract and be free

[TempleoftheDog]

Conor had his chance to really strike a blow for fighters if he would have gone to court when they were refusing to let him fight Mayweather. Now it looks like he's trapped in his contract like everyone else. I wonder if he signed it when the UFC was allowing sunset clauses.

It doesn't get talked about enough, but, after Ngannou left, the UFC decided it was better than to face another lawsuit that to allow sunset clauses to exist. There were a few articles talking about the UFC signing fighters to contracts without a sunset clause after the Francis debacle.

Didn’t they start redoing contracts in 2017 because of the lawsuit? Isn’t that when they started the sunset clauses? But you have to know the specifics of each contract to know anything, for sure.

You could be two weeks from your release date. But if you re-sign, that’s another 5 years (unless stipulated otherwise in the contract).

That’s how they trapped GSP when he re-signed to fight Bisping. It was his last fight he fought in the UFC, but he was trapped. Until his sunset clause kicked in. And by then he was like 41, or something.

But you need to know the specifics, or it’s really just speculation.

 

[WA2OOO]

Anyone that saw his interviews at various boxing events knows he was pissed they wouldn’t give him a warm up fight in boxing. They did it before when he had a bunch of fights on his contract ( cowboy) but now because he has I think 2 left they are not taking any chances. If anything he will have one fight against a guy who can beat him and if he wins he will fight for some belt, maybe max for bmf which if he wins somehow will be stuck in a title clause

 

[bubbleboyjones]

Conor got his F-You money by leveraging his brand into his liquor business and sale, not his UFC pay. Frankly, it was a joke the UFC took half his Mayweather money when they didn't even actually promote the fight it was Showtime and Mayweather Promotions along with Conor being his own hype man, the UFC just shook Conor down to allow him to do it. Truly a pimp and ho situation.

Yeah he got fucked over with purse pay but from the UFC's perspective them allowing him to just go off and collect the entire purse as well would have been just idiotic. He just won the LW belt, never defended the FW belt and letting him abandon 2 divisions to collect 100 million just to not see him in MMA for years would have been promotion suicide.

On top of this the UFC allowing that fight to happen was the genesis of all of this MMA/influencer celebrity boxing we are still seeing today. Mark my words, Ngannou would be in the UFC right now if Conor vs Mayweather never happened. UFC knew they were opening up a can of worms back in 2017 but there was too much money on the table to not do it. Little did anyone know that the ramification were well beyond Conor fighting once every 2-3 years and them losing their HW champ and multiple guys on their roster trying to get out of contracts for celebrity boxing.

 

[BEATDOWNS]

So Conor wants his contract to outlive him?

 

[AbominableJoman]

UFC always trying to keep a black Irish down. Smdh…

 

[NoSmilez]

It makes sense. He is too shot to be a MMA fighter. He can do some bareknuckle and youtube boxing thing. It is what it is. He hasn't been a fighter for a while now.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

Dana knows what he is doing, he has played these games before.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

It makes sense. He is too shot to be a MMA fighter. He can do some bareknuckle and youtube boxing thing. It is what it is. He hasn't been a fighter for a while now.

I don't know. Bareknuckle looks pretty intense. Youtube boxing and Twitter fighting might be more up his ally.

 

[NoSmilez]

I don't know. Bareknuckle looks pretty intense. Youtube boxing and Twitter fighting might be more up his ally.

He is going to be fighting other shot fighters. Jeremy Stephens at 170/185. Eddie and Mendez are in BKFC too. He is just going to replay his greatest hits. The final boss is probably Mike Perry but they aren't making that fight first.

 

[Ronin13]

You lost me at Conor wants to fight

 

[egk]

Does anybody really care anymore?

 

[Aluminati]

They should offer him Holloway and Gaethje.

 

[AndrewGolota48]

I don't know. Bareknuckle looks pretty intense. Youtube boxing and Twitter fighting might be more up his ally.

It's not about fighting for him, he's a true success and achievement addict (and yes substances as well, apparently). The UFC literally crushed his spirit after the Mayweather fight, because Conor had reached such an incredible pinnacle from that fight, that his next move was the desire to become a partial owner of the UFC, which they rejected. After that, he could never muster up the same motivation as a fighter again. He was already a mess mentally by the Khabib fight, as big as that fight was (not saying he would beat Khabib anyway, terrible matchup for anyone really).

The Khabib fight was still a massive fight, and he was really more focused on Proper 12 at that time than anything else (that was his solution for a huge project and next level of success after the UFC ownership method was rejected) but after that it was exponential. Cowboy folded so he looked great in that fight, but then his style started to decline and become less innovative, then he tried to force back his old style in the Poirier rematch.

I don't think he cares about the fighting aspect anymore except as a vessel for ownership projects, and lately he seems to be focused on BKFC for this reason. He probably has incredible inner resentment still for the UFC for turning him down (resentment that is driving him toward drug/alcohol addiction), and his dream is to elevate BKFC as part owner at the expense of the UFC, as a rival promotion.

 

[MarioLemieux]

It's not about fighting for him, he's a true success and achievement addict (and yes substances as well, apparently). The UFC literally crushed his spirit after the Mayweather fight, because Conor had reached such an incredible pinnacle from that fight, that his next move was the desire to become a partial owner of the UFC, which they rejected. After that, he could never muster up the same motivation as a fighter again. He was already a mess mentally by the Khabib fight, as big as that fight was (not saying he would beat Khabib anyway, terrible matchup for anyone really).

The Khabib fight was still a massive fight, and he was really more focused on Proper 12 at that time than anything else (that was his solution for a huge project and next level of success after the UFC ownership method was rejected) but after that it was exponential. Cowboy folded so he looked great in that fight, but then his style started to decline and become less innovative, then he tried to force back his old style in the Poirier rematch.

I don't think he cares about the fighting aspect anymore except as a vessel for ownership projects, and lately he seems to be focused on BKFC for this reason. He probably has incredible inner resentment still for the UFC for turning him down (resentment that is driving him toward drug/alcohol addiction), and his dream is to elevate BKFC as part owner at the expense of the UFC, as a rival promotion.

Khabib was just waaaaaaaaaay better than him. Prime Conor is Nate Diaz tier.

The UFC will keep him contract hell until he's 45.

No sunset clause for Conor.

 

[You Will Vote For Dreyga]

If had maned up fought with his hurt toe he would be out of contract by now

 

[Benoitthegr8]

Conor is no longer a fighter, just an attention whore, that is all