So dave meltzer came out reported that that Conor McGregor was refusing to do press for the khabib fight
And I tend to think that Dave's right
I really do just because you look around, you know see Conor doing any press for the kabhi fight
But it's such a tough spot that Conor gets put in and he gets so much fault put on him
But people don't think of some of the intangibles the first of which is he lives in Ireland
So they're not really offered to fly cameras out and do it at Connors convenience
They wanted to get on a plane and come to some media. Mecca's Los Angeles, New York
And they are willing to work with him. They'll take the cameras to him
I'm not saying that that's being rejected
But it's not quite as simple as you guys think some of those big media opportunities
They want him to do take him away from his gym
And he's not being a jerk about it. He's just going guys. How many masters do you want me to serve?
I got a five round title fight coming up with a guy who has never been beaten
I'd like to be in shape for it
I'd like to be with my coach and with my team and I can only fly so many of these guys around so many times
I can't duplicate the gym you running me in different time zones on different
Different schedules and I got to work out a little bit I get that
Argument and I as much as that argument as much passion as I just had in that statement to defend Conor Connors not totally
Right in this I mean look
He has a contract and there's certain obligations that he has to do and the company is willing to you know
When they sit on and negotiate with him
Willing to pencil him in and put him in on the backend and share in some of the revenue
You know for the fruits of his labor there and they have a reasonable expectation that he'll go through with it
So, you know you are gonna have some of that push and pull
it's just you know, make sure you understand the timeframe Conor had done that one time and Conor lost the fight and
Kind of looked back said I'm not gonna do that again. You guys took me out of what I do
So well, I'm not gonna do that again
and we see a major musical chairs in this sport with the champions and boxing doesn't have that and
even particularly way back in boxing
I mean there was guys that will go 10 and 11 years see it every 10 and 11 years undefeated and
I have my own opinions on that
some of it was because the media wasn't around used to have to watch your opponent fight watch fight boxing fights via a
Transistor radio people would huddle around the radio. There was no closed circuit there certainly was no YouTube Internet
There wasn't handheld recorders that you could go around and get footage on this out guys
To stay out of that mystique and keep that championship for a while
As you got into MMA a little and then you also had guys that were being protected in boxing. That's true
The best weren't fighting the best
That's true when you got an MMA you did have the best fight of the best
But you also had the ability of technology
You also had all of this footage out there
But I will offer you a third component and a third component is the second somebody wins that world championship
They get instantly set into a media tour and they got to go around the world now. They're away from their gym
They're away from their teammates, right the definition of insanity
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Well, this is in Reverse. Okay
If you have success doing something you got to dance with the one that brought you in when you get taken out of that element
All of a sudden you're living out of hotels. You're not at the same gym
You're not on the same sleep scheduling out on the same diet schedule. You're not on the same training schedule
You're going to get a different result
And when you have somebody smart like Connor somebody who cares about his career somebody that's passionate to it
So many people think that he's just a make-believe character
He's just after the money man. Some of that's media
But if you go and look what he does at his core
Locks himself in the gym with his team doesn't want to be around. That media doesn't want to be a
household name and all these different things
There's a part of that you have to really respect and admire and I'll let you decide who's right in the media
I think we'd all like Connor do to me more media because he's fun, right?
And we certainly support the promotion and then want to do good business. We do understand that
I'm just offering to you. Make sure you do look at it a different level. This isn't a guy being a diva
This is a guy
Pursuing a dream. This is a guy taking things very serious
So if he wants to stay at home in Dublin
And the rest of us got to go out and do his bidding form and tell the story. Let's make sure it's told accurately