News Conor McGregor tweets 'I have decided to retire young'

[DavieVegas]

Conor McGregor tweets 'I have decided to retire young'

This real or is he messing with us? Scared to fight Diaz again or what? Maybe it might be because his friend and camp team mate Joao Carvalho died after a fight?

[lagwagon]

Has to be lies!

[DavieVegas]

If this is REAL then there goes ufc's big payday. Dana White must be shitting himself unless its fake

[lagwagon]

Crazy, got a buddy that knew his handler when he was starting out. Not sure if Conor still has the same guy. Making me shoot my buddy a text haha.

[DavieVegas]

Originally Posted by lagwagon

Crazy, got a buddy that knew his handler when he was starting out. Not sure if Conor still has the same guy. Making me shoot my buddy a text haha.

I got a buddy that fights as well and I asked him. Still waiting on his answer if he heard about this.

[georgeyw]

I was just reading about this too, to me it sounds more like a negotiation tactic.

He is training in Iceland right now, probably wants more money from Dana.

[romeo22]

He real fighter so he wont retire at his stage.Many fight to be won

[MrBottomTooth]

Thankfully for Dana it sounds like GSP might be coming back. That will sell a few ppvs.

[brassmonkey]

i wanna fight him! not!

[lezinterracial]

Fucked up if Brazilian Ju-Jitsu OP.

He seems like a cool dude. Probably trained his whole life. If I had the cash, I would retire too.

[Axeman]

He's been pulled from UFC 200 by Dana White for refusing to come to Vegas to do the promo.

[NICK_S]

Yeah he got pulled from the diaz fight for saying he wanted to stay in iceland training rather than do the pressers. Dana pulled him straight away and so he pulled this twitter retirement. He thought he was bigger than the game.

[_Richard_]

so this all might be a publicity stunt?

[MrBottomTooth]

Scared shitless of Diaz confirmed.

[NICK_S]

I think its more than being scared of diaz, even though nate will definitely beat him. Mainly because dana and fertitta apparently tried to convince him to do a title defence rather than a diaz rematch but he insisted on it. Unless he got 'the fear' later. Then nate apparently retired which i don't think is true for a second, just think he is teasing conor. Now cm punk has also retired? He is just jumping on the publicity i think.

I think dana will talk him out of this and we will see a title defence later in the year. It's that or lose his belt, which i don't think will sit well with him.

[JFK]

Originally Posted by NICK_S

Yeah he got pulled from the diaz fight for saying he wanted to stay in iceland training rather than do the pressers. Dana pulled him straight away and so he pulled this twitter retirement. He thought he was bigger than the game.

Saw that on TMZ as well

[Robbie]

Was just reading on PWInsider that he is on his way to WWE

[djroof]

UFC marketing skills...

[Sednub997]

coolest MMA fighter ever!

[poncabare]

sure buddy

[adultchatpay]

He is just marketing his next fight. Prize fighters usually do that trick. And they come back again.. and again..

[WebClicks]

from his latest FB post today

For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by CookieMonster

from his latest FB post today

aww he is a poet:

I am just trying to do my job and fight here.
I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.
I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.
There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.
50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I?m left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.
Nothing else was going through my mind.
It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.
Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a fuck morning show did not get me this life.
Talking to some lady that deep down doesn?t give a fuck about what I?m doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I?m cool with that too, I?ve been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.
I?m coming for my revenge here.
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.
With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.
I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.
There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I?ve danced us all the way here.
Nate?s little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.
He came in with no shit to do that last one. I?d already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I?ll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I?m doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.
I feel the $400 million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don?t know what to say.
For the record also ?
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations ?
I AM NOT RETIRED.

[DavieVegas]

lol @^. Poet and he knows it

[MartinCamsPower]

it was totally fake, just to bug with the whole UFC

[Jel]

there can be only one!