“I have other stuff in the pipeline. Shit’s about to hit the fan, I feel.”
Conor McGregor set the scene after he avenged his first ever UFC loss, to Nate Diaz, back in August.
Mobbed back-stage by reporters, ‘The Notorious’ alluded to a number of forks in the road he could Billy Strut down. All would be revealed, he told us, after his next fight.
That fight was his lightweight title victory over Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205.
McGregor announced, after that fight, that he was going to become a first-time father, that he wanted equity in the UFC and that he was taking a break for a while.
However, apparently the big announcement was to be the formation of ‘McGregor Promotions’ and some of his plans for it.
During his ‘An Experience With… ‘ interview with Ariel Helwani in Manchester, the Dubliner confirmed McGregor Promotions had been temporarily placed on the backburner. He divulged a little information on what he expected the promotions business would entail:
“I could help the next generation grow and feed them into the UFC, and then also down the line use that as a negotiation tactic. Eventually get to what I was planning… ‘in association with’ [the UFC].”
McGregor also spoke about promoting a future bout with Floyd Mayweather with McGregor Promotions – a large chunk of the conversation – along with the UFC, who he remains committed to.
UFC commentator Joe Rogan believes the eventual creation of such an enterprise, fronted by McGregor, will see MMA rapidly move into boxing territory. During the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, he declared:
“It is going to become what boxing is. It’s going to become that because it is star-driven. It’s going that way – like music, like comedy, like everything.
“And when it is star-driven, guys like Conor who is a genuine star is going to use that leverage, he’s going to utilise it, and it will be interesting to see what happens.”
Rogan continued, “It has always been like that in boxing. That is how they make the $100m pay-days.”
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