Förra veckan valde den tidigare UFC-mästaren i mellanvikt, Michael Bisping, att ge sin tankar om UFC-ikonen Conor McGregors vilda attack mot UFC-fighterbussen under mediadagen inför UFC 223. Bisping hade följande att säga i podcasten ”Believe You Me”om McGregors tilltag:
You see Conor going out there and doing this like, ‘What the hell are you doing? Why would you behave like that?’
Look at everything he has going for him. People would literally kill to be in his position. People dream of being in that position and now he’s in that position and he’s going out there and acting like that. He’s only letting himself down.
McGregors agerande har enligt de flesta skadat han och UFC:s rykte, men Bisping tror dock att UFC:s marknadsförings team kan göra situationen till något positovt, rent monetärt, genom att boka in en megafight mellan McGregor och den nykrönte lättviktsmästaren, Khabib Nurmagomedov:
I tell you right now, if that was Ray Borg that threw a dolly, if that was Rafael dos Anjos that did that, if it was fucking anyone else, they’d be gone. They would be so fucking done in the organization. But no, the footage is on the Embedded! And listen, if you’re the UFC, now you have to do Khabib vs. Conor, and that’s all the Countdown show will be. Conor running in there, smashing the window, Khabib’s reaction, all that type of stuff.
At the end of the day, is that how you want people to behave? No, but can you turn it into a positive? Of course you f**king can and you can turn it into a shit-ton of money. That is going to be a MASSIVE pay-per-view. 100 percent. Khabib already has a huge following. Conor, of course, massive following. Them two fight after all that? Forget about it. Well over 1.5 million buys.
