3/22/2023 0 Comments Trash talker gets owned fight![]() ![]() What battle was that then, Conor? It looked like you got a bloody good hiding. “We lost the match but won the battle,” McGregor sneered on Twitter. In boxing, there is almost always humility in victory and grace in defeat. He brawled with another rival, Dereck Chisora, at a press conference in 2012. He’s fighting a lad from the Ukraine and I want the Brit to win.” Haye is typical of boxing’s ability to forgive and forget almost anything. I will help him if he ever needs any advice. “There is no animosity and I wish him nothing but luck. “Once the fight was over, our beef was over,” Haye says. “I thought that was absolutely disgusting.” Yet, after Bellew beat Haye twice, neither man bore a grudge. “He was saying that he’s going to leave me in hospital and I’m going to leave the ring on a stretcher,” Bellew told BBC Sport before his first fight with Haye. ![]() For an encore, Tyson screamed homophobic abuse at a journalist who had suggested, “Put him in a straitjacket.” Boxing has a long and dishonourable tradition of trash talking. Tyson sunk his teeth into Lennox Lewis’ leg during a prefight press conference at the Hudson Theatre in New York in January 2002, sparking a mass brawl that looked identical to the one in which Nurmagomedov jumped out of the cage after beating McGregor. In truth, boxing needs no lessons from UFC on trash talking. It would be comforting for boxing fans to think that UFC has perverted a grand old pugilistic tradition. It might have been borrowed from boxing, but his bragging and blarney have reached new levels of ugly provocation.” “A brilliant athlete, but publicly unhinged, he has become the master of the art of trash talking. “In the person of Conor McGregor, those who run UFC happened upon the ideal figurehead for their enticing cocktail of skill and danger,” wrote Jim White in the Daily Telegraph. And when you are outraging Mike Tyson’s sense of social decorum – a man who was once disqualified for chomping off a sizeable chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear – the trash talking has possibly gone too far. Unimaginable” gasped Mike Tyson on Twitter after the McGregor vs Nurmagomedov fight descended into a near riot. McGregor insulted Nurmagomedov’s family, manager and faith. ![]() In the build-up to their fight, McGregor’s mouth was relentless – calling Nurmagomedov, who is a devout Muslim, “a backwards c***” because the Russian turned down a drink of whiskey at a press conference. Earlier this year, McGregor had hurled a metal dolly at a bus in which Nurmagomedov and other UFC fighters were travelling. It felt like all of McGregor’s puerile trash-talking poison was reaching a perfectly logical conclusion. And yet there was a grim inevitably about the whole wretched fiasco. Apart from the fight – that was just dull. When “the greatest event in UFC history” is remembered, it will be for the months of McGregor insults that were used to flog the fight and for the mass brawl that followed it when the victorious Nurmagomedov leapt from the cage to continue the conversation with McGregor’s training camp. McGregor’s best shots were reserved for the poisonous prefight marketing. The Russian gave the Irishman an emphatic beating. But UFC 229’s headline act turned out to be about as one-sided as a good hiding can ever be. McGregor vs Nurmagomedov was billed as the greatest event in Ultimate Fighting Championship history. ![]()
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