UFC welterweight king Tyron Woodley had a very strong reaction to Conor McGregor’s apology.
Conor McGregor didn’t exactly have the smoothest of build-ups to the release of his documentary. On the cusp of its release, he found himself at the centre of a shitstorm for multiple uses of the six-letter f-word backstage at UFC Gdansk.
After some radio silence in the media, McGregor appeared on the Late Late Show to promote his new movie. When host Ryan Tubridy asked him about his latest controversy, he finally made an apology.
“It is what it is. I’ll just say sorry for what I said and that’s it and try to move on from it.”
He may want to move on from all this negativity, but Tyron Woodley doesn’t want to let him away with it that easy.
Step in the right direction https://t.co/4LWqyInIp5
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) November 3, 2017
In an interview with TMZ , the UFC welterweight champion admitted to being ‘fired up’ about McGregor before posing the question, ‘How many passes do we give this dude?’
Woodley took issue with McGregor referencing the fact that he campaigned for a yes vote in the Irish marriage equality referendum in his apology.
“That’s like the person that dropped the N-bomb and said ‘I’m not racist, I got three black friends and I had them over for dinner last night.’
Myself and my team are urging everyone to please VOTE YES TO EQUALITY! Every human deserves equal rights #WeAreAllOne pic.twitter.com/PbyTXNHzKQ
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) May 19, 2015
This isn’t the first time McGregor’s mouth has got him into trouble. He received his fair share of backlash during the press tour for his professional boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather and infamously told German fighter Dennis Siver to, ‘Kiss them feet, Nazi’ in a tweet.
As Woodley sees it, McGregor needs to cop on.
“I gave him a pass during the Floyd Mayweather fight. He was talking using the term ‘boy’ and ‘monkey,’ things that have had very negative racial undertones in the past, but I got a problem with this. When you’re a celebrity of that stature, you’re making that kind of money, you need to have a PR person on staff and you need to have a bit more of a social conscience when you’re saying things. You know the camera is going to be on you at all times. He don’t get a pass on this one from me.”
“I would never hate on the things he did for the sport and therefore himself. But that said, with much given, much is required. You do not get a pass from me, brother. He needs to sit down and be humble.”
Right or wrong, Woodley isn’t going to be any more popular as a champion after these comments.
