“It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.”
Conor McGregor’s much-discussed statement from Thursday afternoon expressed a desire to isolate himself, to go back to the fight-focused days of old and put promotion on the back-burner for the time-being.
“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.”
The whole dispute between ‘The Notorious’ and the UFC that has seen the Dubliner pulled from the UFC 200 card stemmed from his insistence on not travelling to Las Vegas for a press conference on Friday.
McGregor believed that promotion got in the way of his preparation for his first fight with Nate Diaz, at UFC 196, and was keen not to make the same mistake again, as explained in his lengthy Facebook post.
But Frankie Edgar, who fights for the interim iteration of McGregor’s featherweight title at UFC 200, has taken umbrage with one point in McGregor’s statement as ‘The Answer’ believes that it is McGregor’s ability to speak that has gotten him to where he is today, rather than his fighting ability.
“One thing I see he says is that his fighting got him where he is, not his promoting,” Edgar told BT Sport.
“I kind of disagree with that. You definitely have to be able to fight but his promoting got him where he was.
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“I think there’s guys in the UFC that came up a lot slower just because they were more quiet. They may have been just as skilled, just as dangerous and just as good as Conor but Conor pushed himself to the forefront because of his promoting ability.
“So now that he’s there and he doesn’t want to promote any more, it doesn’t really make any sense.”
