Inför matchen mot Floyd ”Money” Mayweather Jr hade Conor McGregor sitt eget bolag, ”McGregor Sports and Entertainment”, som Co-promotor till superfighten. ”The Money Fight” mot Mayweather är över, men inte McGregors ambitioner att vara en betydande del av UFC. I en Q&A inför hans lansering av hans egen film, ”Notorious”, sade irländaren att vi har sett det sista av honom i UFC om han inte får ta del av UFC-kakan som co-promotor.
I was promoter on the Mayweather fight, and we’re in current negotiations. I ain’t stepping in that octagon again unless I’m part owner of the whole setup – I’m a promoter. Seeing this, it’s taking me back and making me realize, if I really, truly want to get back into the fighting – I’m in (the) negotiation stage. Everyone’s trying to get me to do something for money, and that’s all the way up, and all the way down. That’s from the fight game, that’s talk, that’s what they’re trying to do.
They’re trying to get me back before the end of the year to make the company money so they can re-service the debt after the big $4.2 billion sale and all this bollocks, and I’m sitting there watching them type of wars I came through, back-to-back-to-back, and watching how I got there, and I’m like, I need to take my time here. I’m in no hurry. I’m in a great position. I’m in the forever money stage now. My money is up there rattling around in the money counter machine, so I’m good.
I still love fighting. I love watching that (movie). I’m twitching watching all them shots being thrown. It’s just something I love to do. I don’t know what it is. I will fight again, no doubt, and I’ll fight multiple times. But when I do do it, I must eliminate all the outside stuff, because there’s so much business stuff, so much personal stuff, so much everything involved in an empire – running it, maintaining it, building it.
You’ve got all these separate entities growing. I’ve got employees that have employees, and it’s all involved in this whole bubble. So if I truly get back and it’s time to fight again, I must distance myself.
McGregor menar att han älskar att tävla för UFC men innan vi ser honom ta klivet in i buren ännu en gång, ja då vill ha sina krav uppfyllda.
