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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
This is a long but very good article, and worth reading for those of you that have the attention span.
One thing I found very interesting in there though is how some people in Ireland are rubbed the wrong way by Conor's attitude. From the article:
While the younger generation in Ireland was celebrating one of its own, old-school fight-watchers found Mystic Mac's personality grating.
"He has utterly divided Irish society, not along socio-economic grounds, but by age," says Sean McGoldrick of the Sunday World, a newspaper in Ireland. "We like our sports stars to be humble."
If you walk the streets of Dublin, even three weeks before the Mayweather fight, you'll run into plenty of McGregor fans. But many others feel he's negatively affected the perception of the country.
Sitting inside a French restaurant on Fade Street, in a tightly tailored suit, Sean, a salesman in his early 40s, says McGregor "is playing what people think an Irishman is—it's not very Irish at all."
Down the road at Jo'Burger, conversation turns to McGregor, and one of the waiters jumps in unprompted: "He doesn't represent us in the best way."
This is a long but very good article, and worth reading for those of you that have the attention span.
One thing I found very interesting in there though is how some people in Ireland are rubbed the wrong way by Conor's attitude. From the article:
While the younger generation in Ireland was celebrating one of its own, old-school fight-watchers found Mystic Mac's personality grating.
"He has utterly divided Irish society, not along socio-economic grounds, but by age," says Sean McGoldrick of the Sunday World, a newspaper in Ireland. "We like our sports stars to be humble."
If you walk the streets of Dublin, even three weeks before the Mayweather fight, you'll run into plenty of McGregor fans. But many others feel he's negatively affected the perception of the country.
Sitting inside a French restaurant on Fade Street, in a tightly tailored suit, Sean, a salesman in his early 40s, says McGregor "is playing what people think an Irishman is—it's not very Irish at all."
Down the road at Jo'Burger, conversation turns to McGregor, and one of the waiters jumps in unprompted: "He doesn't represent us in the best way."
