It must be something political. If Conor was on a bender, the UFC would still let him attend the press conference, like they did with the Khabib presser. If he was injured and the fight was off, they would announce it right away and start looking for a replacement.
If he was injured they would try to hide it until they had a replacement, the UFC never announces that kind of thing immediately. Presumably because they don't want people to start asking for refunds before theres an alternative on the table to entice them to to just keep tickets.
Sometimes its leaked though.
I don’t think there really is a replacement since it’s a Conor fight. The card is pretty much ruined. Maybe they’re checking an injury to find out if he can make it.
dana is desperate mode can make a fight of nothing, the man can keep throwing money at names until they want to fight if he has to... and this would be that kind of situation, since it's international fight week... also that card is fucking thin without the mcgregor fight.
Definitely political, I heard a rumor that Conor and Dana were planning on marrying to solidify diplomatic relations between Ireland and the Kingdom of Meat Sweats.
Not if he was in the sort of state he was in in that roadhouse interview, no way. And those sort of comedowns and hangovers start to become the norm when the nice brain chemicals are all used up
Valid point, maybe Dana found him on the backside of a few days of being up all night and knew he wasn't serviceable. My wife is Irish and from the same part of Dubline and supposedly he's been at the Black Forge late nights recently, well after midnight.
He claims to be sober but like...does a party boy really hang at the pub until 2am just smelling pints?
Withdrawals are what I’m thinking. Even if he is serious about getting clean for this it’s not easy. Based on the video of him at the club he’s still drinking too but if he added alcohol detox in there it’s a rough ride, shit can even be fatal
Conor hasn't pulled out of a fight once in his career due to injury.
There's only two incidents where he's jeopardised a pay day - UFC 200 where he didn't want to fly halfway around the world to do a press conference and the bus incident. Otherwise he's never done anything to jeopardise a card.
Yes he's a crazy alcoholic Irishman who's likely snorted half of Columbia, but this is unusual for him.
He’s quite literally always been reliable lol. Never once has pulled out of a fight. Many in the mma bubbles across social media dislike him though so the narrative gets pushed that he’s never fighting again, he doesn’t want to fight, he’s not going to show up, he’s scared, etc. etc. when none of that is actually true lol. These people have said the same thing over the years for a few of his fights that he’s *already shown up for and fought in* lol. He’s a lesser fighter than he was in years past, obviously but he’s not “scared” or doing anything to be “unreliable”.
It’s essentially become a way to talk negatively/shit about someone instead of an actual analysis/interpretation that you’d like to be taken seriously.
Obstacles outside of our control = "I was on my yacht in the Mediterranean and we ran out of proper 12. Rather than sobering up, we syphoned the petrol from the yacht and diluted it with sea water. It did the trick, but we were stranded and had to wait for my helicopter to pick us up."
This was the most corporate AI response ever. I have a feeling the fight is off and Conor is just over it and gets more pleasure out of trolling and toying with chandler some more. He’s become 50 cent levels of petty lol
"Ye hang tight. Fool. You must be new to press conferences. The fight is off btw. I’m going to fight someone else on the 29th. Good luck on your old contract kid."
"Irish fans, you did an awesome job so what you're a blackbelt in juijitsu gettin' a awesome submission there. I wanna tell me, what you see, lets go ahead and see it by the fight, what you saw, in the ring" - Conor Ortiz
My interpretation: Conor’s coke habit is out of control, to the point where he’s so convinced he’s literally the King that he started using the royal “our” to refer to what’s his.
Well, whatever it is, they sure as fuck didn't let Connor write that statement. That was straight PR spin. Dude could be doing time in a Siberia prison for all we know.
All you neckbeards thought my client was on cocaine and couldn’t make it to the presser
June 29th he will show you can be a champion-level fighter while high on cocaine
There’s no way Conor wrote this tweet. I don’t believe he would type “In consultation with the UFC, today’s press conference was canceled due to a series of obstacles outside of our control”. This reads like a prepared statement by someone’s PR/legal team for Conor to put out.
Nailed it. Although canceled/cancelled is spelled the “American” way (that said, I’m American and I use 2 Ls).
Edit: to clarify, the original tweet says “cancelled” (non-American), but the quote above my post here wrote “canceled.” Tl;dr - 1 L is Americanized
My belief is that there is some issues with contract talks for a new deal. I believe even in the 302 aftershow they mentioned that they were having productive talks regarding a new contract.
I wonder if something hit a snag and this is a flex done by him that they need him more than he needs them.
But doesn’t he have 2 fights left on his contract? And they’ve had over a year to work something out if that were the case, seems stupid to wait until now giving Conor all the leverage. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised though, Dana’s loyalty to his favorites is obvious.
But the UFC doesn't need Conor anymore, we're in the guaranteed money ESPN era now. Conor hasn't fought since 2021 and they've broken records in revenue every year since. It's not 2016 anymore.
This is where I’m a little confused, ufc doesn’t want Conor going to boxing and prove more money was there this whole time and he’s clearly been loud about wanting to fight Pac-Man which is probably WAY to late now, they don’t need Conor and Conor doesn’t need them but he desperately wants to be out of contract with them
Lets imagine UFC is McDonalds and Boxing is Burgerking.
Conor is the McRib .
Even though McDonalds are increasing their food prices, it isn't stopping their growth as more & more customers continue to eat there.
Do they need their supremely popular and coveted McRib to get people in their doors? Nope, so they rarely have it on the menu. If fact it only comes out on very special occasions.
They sure as fuck aren't going to let Burger King have it though.
But there's big money in celebrity boxing just waiting for Conor, if the UFC keep him held by the balls they can grind him down to accepting a massive revenue split with the the same way he did for the Mayweather fight.
He's fought cocaine addiction, alcohol addiction, and social media addiction in 2024. And as with 3 of his last 4 UFC fights, he's lost them all comprehensively.
Generally coke kinda sucks unless you are drinking. And you can wind up drinking quite a lot. A good night of partying and blowing down can make you feel like absolute shit the next day but you would have to be straight tore up to be so fucked that you were outside of a normal conor presser.
Cocaine + Alcohol turns into cocaethylene in your body, which feels great at the time, and makes you *waaaay* more hungover than either cocaine or alcohol alone.
Personally alcohol hangovers are worse, but cocaine rocks my immune system and I tend to get sick over the next week. Neither are worth it for me anymore.
Ariel Helwani : "Look: for several hours now I have been told from credible sources the reason Conors press conference has been banned. However due to the importance and sensitivity around the subject I have refrained from going on it. i don't feel comfortable with it currently."
Ariel is close with Conor and is protecting him. In most cases, if Ariel knew what the issue was, he would love nothing more than to announce it before Dana could. In this case his source is probably Conor himself so he has to play it close to the vest. My only guess is injury and they're waiting to see how bad it is.
And also reiterating over and over that it is not legal trouble or issues with fight pay but would not mention the obvious thing, that Conor is injured again.
That ain't happening anymore, the new organization is only testing enough to make it look like they are doing something. If Jones just pissed in that cup nothing would have happened. But he had to be Jones and make a court case out of it.
The possibilities are injury, Irish arrest warrant or wanted for police questioning, contract leverage, or drug and alcohol abuse issue that is getting out of control.
Agreed.
I genuinely think the contract thing is by far the most feasible answer at this point.
Dana arrives yesterday for talks ahead of the press conference. Conor rejects the offer or they can’t reach an agreement. Either he says he’s not attending the press conference or Dana pulls it. Chandler fight goes in limbo as it serves neither side’s purpose to go ahead with it right now. Just my guess of course.
It *might* be intentional. I understand your point, but it's also a pretty normal sounding statement. I don't think it's clear at all what's happening right now, if anything
Edit: also potentially notable that Conor's Twitter account just 1 day ago has a re-tweet of a UFC 303 promo video
I hope they compensate Chandler with a lay-up and a title fight or something - dude had 5 fights in two years and he then sat out close to two years for this shit
Weird how vague everyone is being. Wonder what happened
It must be something political. If Conor was on a bender, the UFC would still let him attend the press conference, like they did with the Khabib presser. If he was injured and the fight was off, they would announce it right away and start looking for a replacement.
If he was injured they would try to hide it until they had a replacement, the UFC never announces that kind of thing immediately. Presumably because they don't want people to start asking for refunds before theres an alternative on the table to entice them to to just keep tickets. Sometimes its leaked though.
Confirmed. Apparently Conor suffered an injury while lifting two kilos towards his nostrils.
That was a nasty line snorted by you
Sometimes these things happen in mma... gentlemen!
Fuck bro u got me in the first half
His nose was a ballewn
Correct but Conor would never make this post. WTF happened?
It’s the refunds, that’s the real answer here
I don’t think there really is a replacement since it’s a Conor fight. The card is pretty much ruined. Maybe they’re checking an injury to find out if he can make it.
dana is desperate mode can make a fight of nothing, the man can keep throwing money at names until they want to fight if he has to... and this would be that kind of situation, since it's international fight week... also that card is fucking thin without the mcgregor fight.
wasn’t Charles the back-up? I might remember wrong
Budget ass Ian Garry and they give chandler just a little extra juice, as a treat Edit: at 165 thats like having Islam V Volk at home
That would be like a dwarf fighting a giraffe.
That description makes me want to see it even more.
Definitely political, I heard a rumor that Conor and Dana were planning on marrying to solidify diplomatic relations between Ireland and the Kingdom of Meat Sweats.
Sergeant Snow and General Goof about to link forces
[Me laughing at this joke](https://i.imgur.com/Xgbq3gp.png)
Conor seemed more like a guy who starts drinking every day at 5pm but the current proper multi night bender Conor different animal
Proper 12pm bender start time now in effect
I feel attacked
I’m talking from experience unfortunately brother
Not if he was in the sort of state he was in in that roadhouse interview, no way. And those sort of comedowns and hangovers start to become the norm when the nice brain chemicals are all used up
Valid point, maybe Dana found him on the backside of a few days of being up all night and knew he wasn't serviceable. My wife is Irish and from the same part of Dubline and supposedly he's been at the Black Forge late nights recently, well after midnight. He claims to be sober but like...does a party boy really hang at the pub until 2am just smelling pints?
Withdrawals are what I’m thinking. Even if he is serious about getting clean for this it’s not easy. Based on the video of him at the club he’s still drinking too but if he added alcohol detox in there it’s a rough ride, shit can even be fatal
Who knows, UFC and Conor are both completely unreliable.
Conor hasn't pulled out of a fight once in his career due to injury. There's only two incidents where he's jeopardised a pay day - UFC 200 where he didn't want to fly halfway around the world to do a press conference and the bus incident. Otherwise he's never done anything to jeopardise a card. Yes he's a crazy alcoholic Irishman who's likely snorted half of Columbia, but this is unusual for him.
I'm gonna be that guy, Colombia*
Fuck sake. I'm never going to recover from this, I'm not even American to make that mistake.
He’s quite literally always been reliable lol. Never once has pulled out of a fight. Many in the mma bubbles across social media dislike him though so the narrative gets pushed that he’s never fighting again, he doesn’t want to fight, he’s not going to show up, he’s scared, etc. etc. when none of that is actually true lol. These people have said the same thing over the years for a few of his fights that he’s *already shown up for and fought in* lol. He’s a lesser fighter than he was in years past, obviously but he’s not “scared” or doing anything to be “unreliable”. It’s essentially become a way to talk negatively/shit about someone instead of an actual analysis/interpretation that you’d like to be taken seriously.
Never missed weight either, even when he was looking like Skeletor at 145.
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Obstacles outside of our control = "I was on my yacht in the Mediterranean and we ran out of proper 12. Rather than sobering up, we syphoned the petrol from the yacht and diluted it with sea water. It did the trick, but we were stranded and had to wait for my helicopter to pick us up."
so entertaining when you read this with Conor's voice
Legit reread it in his voice and it was far funnier. The over the top voice he used in Roadhouse works too.
Petrol and Proper 12 have the same flavor profile.
Proper 12 Octane
MONKEY PUMP
He was super smashed from partying till 2pm
This mf gasses bending forward to sniff his fat lines off some dudes chest lmao
With how ridiculously tight his clothes are its like he's constantly getting choked out by a midget.
"With this much coke and my clothes this tight, autoerotic asphyxiation is my 9-5"
His 5-9 more likely tbh.
Its clear, Conor didnt want to be there, so everything was cancelled.
Connor is pregnant 🥶
Does cocaine counter the FAS or is the baby just double fucked
Coke's a stimulant, alcohol's a depressant, the math cancels out
"Michael, hit the body!"
You hear those kicks? He gonna be a soccer player.
This was the most corporate AI response ever. I have a feeling the fight is off and Conor is just over it and gets more pleasure out of trolling and toying with chandler some more. He’s become 50 cent levels of petty lol
50 wouldn't be petty at the cost of the bag. Usually the opposite. Well except the front row seats thing 😅 that was just flex.
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"Ye hang tight. Fool. You must be new to press conferences. The fight is off btw. I’m going to fight someone else on the 29th. Good luck on your old contract kid."
You misspelled fewl I think.
Press conference canceled due to DOCTAH STOPPAGGGGEEEE
His ego is like a BALEWN
*Thanks for the cheese. Catch ya's later*
>I apologize to my Irish fans Once again, Conor took the opportunity to apologise to absolutely nobody
That was a nasty line by you.
Just to be clear, there was never no Irish fans
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To all my Irish fans, I'll never let you down til now
My girlfriend is a great mother in law to my Irish fans
Irish fans are one of the greatest fans, of the night.
"Irish fans, you did an awesome job so what you're a blackbelt in juijitsu gettin' a awesome submission there. I wanna tell me, what you see, lets go ahead and see it by the fight, what you saw, in the ring" - Conor Ortiz
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"Outside of our control" So again, what was the issue and why is nobody willing to say what it was?
My interpretation: Conor’s coke habit is out of control, to the point where he’s so convinced he’s literally the King that he started using the royal “our” to refer to what’s his.
Those are just some basic, well-known background facts.
Well, whatever it is, they sure as fuck didn't let Connor write that statement. That was straight PR spin. Dude could be doing time in a Siberia prison for all we know.
Isn’t it clear that they lost control of Conor? It’s just weird they announce it now, when it happened in 2019
All you neckbeards thought my client was on cocaine and couldn’t make it to the presser June 29th he will show you can be a champion-level fighter while high on cocaine
Jon Jones already proved that though
Shut yah fookin mouth, yah fookin rat
https://i.imgur.com/As86eIz.jpg
Can’t Conor show us, too?…
I do let you show, bro.
Both Chandler and Conor have steroids on their side, but only one has the finest cocaine
Sir, are you by any chance an alumni of the University of American Samoa?
Go land crabs!
This is the Irish version of “the DA got recalled.”
Maybe he had to coach his kids baseball game, B?
Balls deep in fish?
Herd it bowth ways...
“Conor, Jr. had Hurling practise. Sorry, can’t make it.”
Great kid, never mettum.
B-b-beast of a comment
Nothing he could do B
He's got some stuff to figure out.
"Go say some shit on social media so everyone shuts up"
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There’s no way Conor wrote this tweet. I don’t believe he would type “In consultation with the UFC, today’s press conference was canceled due to a series of obstacles outside of our control”. This reads like a prepared statement by someone’s PR/legal team for Conor to put out.
The kicker is that whoever wrote the tweet used the Americanised spelling of apologise
Nailed it. Although canceled/cancelled is spelled the “American” way (that said, I’m American and I use 2 Ls). Edit: to clarify, the original tweet says “cancelled” (non-American), but the quote above my post here wrote “canceled.” Tl;dr - 1 L is Americanized
I’ve always used two ls just because one seemed incomplete
I've always used two because I didn't want the other one to be lonely.
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My belief is that there is some issues with contract talks for a new deal. I believe even in the 302 aftershow they mentioned that they were having productive talks regarding a new contract. I wonder if something hit a snag and this is a flex done by him that they need him more than he needs them.
But doesn’t he have 2 fights left on his contract? And they’ve had over a year to work something out if that were the case, seems stupid to wait until now giving Conor all the leverage. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised though, Dana’s loyalty to his favorites is obvious.
Maybe Conor waited until now because he has all the leverage. I wonder if thats why this fight seemed to stall for so long after tuf
But the UFC doesn't need Conor anymore, we're in the guaranteed money ESPN era now. Conor hasn't fought since 2021 and they've broken records in revenue every year since. It's not 2016 anymore.
This is where I’m a little confused, ufc doesn’t want Conor going to boxing and prove more money was there this whole time and he’s clearly been loud about wanting to fight Pac-Man which is probably WAY to late now, they don’t need Conor and Conor doesn’t need them but he desperately wants to be out of contract with them
Lets imagine UFC is McDonalds and Boxing is Burgerking. Conor is the McRib . Even though McDonalds are increasing their food prices, it isn't stopping their growth as more & more customers continue to eat there. Do they need their supremely popular and coveted McRib to get people in their doors? Nope, so they rarely have it on the menu. If fact it only comes out on very special occasions. They sure as fuck aren't going to let Burger King have it though.
My man comin in HOT with the mcrefrences 👏👏👏
This is my favorite r/mma comment ever
The McRib comes back on the menu whenever pork prices drop enough on the commodities market
It only comes down when the price of pork is low and beef is high. It’s pretty much a known fact.
But there's big money in celebrity boxing just waiting for Conor, if the UFC keep him held by the balls they can grind him down to accepting a massive revenue split with the the same way he did for the Mayweather fight.
Wonder what those obstacles are
rocks
I believe they call it booger sugar
Pretty sure the boys across the pond call it "packet"
*Nose lagers*
*Sweet delicious nose clams, straight from the sea!*
tests from God
New Albanian delivery driver being unfamiliar with the drop zone
Cocaine and prostitutes. It’s literally a tale as old as cocaine is. They go hand in hand.
Yea some shit definitely went down behind the scenes this is so sudden and ominous
Conor with the lawyer statement.
conors lawyer with the statement
Conor’s statement with the lawyer
Statement lawyers with the Conor
I'm calling GOOFCON 4
Conor said he has 3 fights in 2024 lol
He's fought cocaine addiction, alcohol addiction, and social media addiction in 2024. And as with 3 of his last 4 UFC fights, he's lost them all comprehensively.
% chance he wrote that himself?
-3%
Hes in a cocaine induced coma, so 0%.
Saw on twitter, its the american version of ‘apologize’/apologise, is how someone from Ireland would write it. So make of that what you will
If ever I’ve seen a statement written by a lawyer. Thats it.
I can confirm that, at 35 years old, cocaine hangovers are fucking brutal
Shit, just getting out of bed at 35 is fucking brutal.
Are they better or worse than actual hangovers at this age? Never done, so curious.
Generally coke kinda sucks unless you are drinking. And you can wind up drinking quite a lot. A good night of partying and blowing down can make you feel like absolute shit the next day but you would have to be straight tore up to be so fucked that you were outside of a normal conor presser.
Cocaine + Alcohol turns into cocaethylene in your body, which feels great at the time, and makes you *waaaay* more hungover than either cocaine or alcohol alone.
Personally alcohol hangovers are worse, but cocaine rocks my immune system and I tend to get sick over the next week. Neither are worth it for me anymore.
why is everyone vague, and why did Ariel hint about it being injury by talking about how a young Conor would fight through injury
Yeah and he kinda just corrected DJ and reclarified what it’s not and didn’t say injury.
If you don’t know shit, but want people to act like you know shit, you be vague. He’s a journalist and his job is to make you think he knows some shit
Ariel Helwani : "Look: for several hours now I have been told from credible sources the reason Conors press conference has been banned. However due to the importance and sensitivity around the subject I have refrained from going on it. i don't feel comfortable with it currently."
Or you were told what ypu can and can't say by the source. Pretty fucking obvious
Ariel is close with Conor and is protecting him. In most cases, if Ariel knew what the issue was, he would love nothing more than to announce it before Dana could. In this case his source is probably Conor himself so he has to play it close to the vest. My only guess is injury and they're waiting to see how bad it is.
And also reiterating over and over that it is not legal trouble or issues with fight pay but would not mention the obvious thing, that Conor is injured again.
Conor and Dana would never lie to us or not tell the truth about the reason this press conference delayed. /s
Pretty funny reading that vs his standard incoherent ramblings
This fight ain’t happening
Conor is washed up. Chandler walks through him. Career over. TTFN
Where the Irish whatsapp groups at?
Shouldve done a conference call at least
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What obstacle would prevent Conor from attending a press conference in his own hometown?
His weekend binge took him to Thailand and his handlers lost him amongst the shemale brothels.
He very much sounds like he did something wrong and fucked it up and the UFC forced him to put out this statement.
Failed drug test perhaps
That ain't happening anymore, the new organization is only testing enough to make it look like they are doing something. If Jones just pissed in that cup nothing would have happened. But he had to be Jones and make a court case out of it.
Wolf tickets!!!
Fights not happening
“Out of our control” after all addiction is out of our control. It’s a disease.
Can't wait for Connor to tweet and delete real reason at like 2am
Just pay Chandler and let the man get on with his life. He waited long enough, and Conor is a cunt for dangling the carrot this long.
His head was looking too weird and they thought giving it a few extra days he might look more recognizable
The possibilities are injury, Irish arrest warrant or wanted for police questioning, contract leverage, or drug and alcohol abuse issue that is getting out of control.
All of the above.
Notice at end he just gives a vague statement at the end. Nothing about chandler or fighting on that card or date. That’s not accidental.
I mean it very easily could be irrelevant.
Agreed. I genuinely think the contract thing is by far the most feasible answer at this point. Dana arrives yesterday for talks ahead of the press conference. Conor rejects the offer or they can’t reach an agreement. Either he says he’s not attending the press conference or Dana pulls it. Chandler fight goes in limbo as it serves neither side’s purpose to go ahead with it right now. Just my guess of course.
>That’s not accidental. Well, we don't know that to be the case.
It *might* be intentional. I understand your point, but it's also a pretty normal sounding statement. I don't think it's clear at all what's happening right now, if anything Edit: also potentially notable that Conor's Twitter account just 1 day ago has a re-tweet of a UFC 303 promo video
McGregor is injured, presser canned until they can get the scans back to see if the fight needs to be shifted and get a replacement sorted. Yw.
Nice lawyer statement
"I'll do what I'm told"
Diddys apology was better than that, come on.
He got the clap
What GOOFCON level does this put us at? Can we get a mod statement please
I am, for one, shocked.
He's preparing the announcement of Forge stout 0% Alhamdullilah
I hope they compensate Chandler with a lay-up and a title fight or something - dude had 5 fights in two years and he then sat out close to two years for this shit
let’s be honest, Chandler prolly needed to take a year or two off after all the damage he’s taken since joining the UFC
He melted right through the drug test pee cup like a fookin laser beam, didn't he.
I read somewhere that his dad was in the hospital for his heart? I hope I’m not just spreading bs. I can’t find anything saying it though
If you're referring to [this](https://www.tmz.com/2024/05/16/conor-mcgregor-dad-tony-hospitalized-ireland/) that was mid-May when that happened.
Yup that indeed. Well I hope his dad is fine and it’s just some dumb shit that got in the way