Conor McGregor News

Russell Ess - May 16, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor got some training in with BJJ black belt pioneer Chris Haueter recently. Haueter is one of the first American black belt jiu-jitsu practitioners and is a part of the “BJJ Dirty Dozen”, which is a group of 12 practitioners outside Brazil to achieve the rank of black belt in BJJ. Haueter received his black belt from Rigan Machado back in 1996.

Chris Taylor - May 16, 2016

Pound-for-pound boxing great Floyd Mayweather Jr. is willing to end his retirement in order to square off with current UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor. “Money” spoke to ESNEWS this past weekend where he stated that a boxing match with “Mystic Mac” is the only fight that he will come out of retirement for and added that the potential fight with the Irish superstar would be nothing short of “record breaking”. His words (as transcribed by MMAFighting.com):

Russell Ess - May 16, 2016

Living boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been retired since his last fight with Andre Berto in September of last year.

Chris Taylor - May 14, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor took to Instagram during last night’s UFC 198 fight card where he posted the following video: In case it rains money…

Scott Hernandez - May 14, 2016

While Conor McGregor has been sidelined ahead of UFC 200, where he was originally slated to fight Nate Diaz in a highly anticipated rematch, that hasn’t prevented McGregor from keeping his name in the headlines. Although highly unlikely, a potential boxing match between McGregor and famed prizefighter Floyd Mayweather has been rumored for several weeks now, with Mayweather even going as far as to predict that the fight will “absolutely” happen. While Mayweather has praised McGregor’s striking skills, the fight would undoubtably be the toughest test of McGregor’s combat sports career.

Scott Hernandez - May 13, 2016

Floyd Mayweather has compiled an astounding 49-0 record over the course of his boxing career, and while ‘Money’ is currently retired, it appears as though he would be willing to come out of retirement for a boxing match with none other than UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.

Scott Hernandez - May 13, 2016

While the odds of Conor McGregor & Floyd Mayweather potentially boxing each other are slim to none, that hasn’t stopped the combat sports community from heavily debating the bout.

Scott Hernandez - May 13, 2016

While initially the potential boxing match between Floyd Mayweather & Conor McGregor was reported as being close to finalized, since then several reports have emerged that indicate the matchup likely won’t happen. While UFC President Dana White has said that if Mayweather wants to box McGregor, he should call him, he also believes that the fight is nearly impossible to make.

Russell Ess - May 13, 2016

Snorri Björns, an excited photographer in Iceland got the opportunity to shoot superstars, Conor McGregor and Gunnar Nelson while they were training at the Mjölnir MMA gym in Iceland the other week. However, just before walking into the gym, Björns was intimidated more than ever after finding out McGregor was “retiring” after not wanting to deal with the media.

Russell Ess - May 12, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor is known for his accuracy and knockout power.

Russell Ess - May 12, 2016

The allure of a fight between two of combat sport’s biggest stars is something that will constantly bounce through fan’s minds. While Dana White has acknowledged that if Floyd Mayweather Jr. in fact wants to come out of retirement to fight UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor in some sort of fight, he can give White a call to discuss.

Scott Hernandez - May 11, 2016

Conor McGregor certainly threw the UFC a bit of a curveball last month when he refused to fulfill his media obligations for his UFC 200 fight with Nate Diaz on July 9th. McGregor tweeted that he was retired, which was followed up by an announcement from the UFC that McGregor had been pulled from the event after refusing to fulfill his obligations.

Scott Hernandez - May 10, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor found himself threatened on social media by a man wielding an AK-47. The threat was serious enough that the FBI began investigating into the incident. During a recent appearance at an event alongside his girlfriend, Dee Devlin, McGregor was accompanied by two bodyguards according to ‘Sweeny and Moran’ who received an eyewitness account of the situation:

Russell Ess - May 9, 2016

UFC color commentator Joe Rogan gave his take on the rumored boxing match between retired world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.

Russell Ess - May 9, 2016

While UFC President Dana White says that a boxing match between UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and retired boxing star Floyd Mayweather Jr. is not happening, McGregor and Mayweather keep fueling the hype.

Chris Taylor - May 8, 2016

Gunnar Nelson scored an impressive submission victory over Albert Tumenov earlier today at UFC Fight Night 87 in Rotterdam. UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor went on Twitter to congratulate his “SBG” teammate, while adding that the victory was the result of having “complete focus” during his fight camp:

Chris Taylor - May 8, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has been rumored to be in negotiations for a potential boxing match with all-time great Floyd Mayweather. Those rumors were initially shot down by UFC president Dana White. However, Floyd Mayweather Sr confirmed in a recent interview that Conor and his son have been in discussions about a potential end of the year boxing match.

Russell Ess - May 6, 2016

Friday had a lot of MMA and boxing fans excited as a report from U.K. tabloid, The Sun claimed that Floyd Mayweather Jr. would be coming out of retirement for a boxing match with UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor. The report claimed that it would be another huge payday for Mayweather, but would give the UFC champ a much smaller cut in comparison, saying that Mayweather would bring in $144 million while McGregor would get $10.1 million for the bout.