Conor is not universally loved by the Irish

[LordMayorMuffSniff]

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."

Why would he want the PC g*ts to like him anyway? They don't even watch MMA. They just whinge about transgender bathrooms and other bullshit. Ireland has thousands of these Liberal neckbeard pedo's jerking each other off. Fook em'.

 

[dr. john lee]

Irish man calling bullshit here. Sure not 100% of people are going to love him but we always support our own being such a small nation. Loada shite. Only people that don't like him are people who think "cage fighting" is barbaric and would much rather go to Sunday mass for a good ol pray. Support for him here across age groups is massive

This article makes me feel better about your people though, that they aren't just blindly in love with a guy who shows so much disrespect as a martial artist. You can call it promotion, making money, etc. But there is a fine line between that and completely letting your ego run wild.

 

[The Big Bang]

This article makes me feel better about your people though, that they aren't just blindly in love with a guy who shows so much disrespect as a martial artist. You can call it promotion, making money, etc. But there is a fine line between that and completely letting your ego run wild.

The USA tends to reward narcissism...

It's sucks.

 

[The Witcher]

Ill break it down now in a way that actually is accurate. Young people who have spent the majority of their lives on internet forums acting in a way that is degenerate, immature, self centered and ignorant love him (they are convinced how they act on the internet doesn't effect who they really are). People that have actually built quality lives and deep satisfying loving connections with friends and family hate him because they know that all of that bravado is bullshit empty talk and really goes nowhere in terms of what makes for a quality life.

Young people will use the money and fame that Conor has made as proof that acting like he is some kind of God is a good thing--- totally and unknowingly proving the point of the older people.....





Oh and Fedor.

Utter horseshit

 

[LuchaBear]

I'll break it down for you real quick, working class irish love him apart from the minority of broken retarded begrudgers, better off people generally dislike him because he is everything they aren't and it KILLS them to see anyone from a working class background succeed, its a simple case of tall poppy syndrome

Right, it's not the way he acts at all...

 

[franklinstower]

The USA tends to reward narcissism...

It's sucks.

It totally does and its been going on long enough that there are people who cant see the problem at all.

 

[markg171]

 

[Andy Anderson]

That's why middle class irish kids prefer ruby

 

[gato sin techo]

but but Europeans love European fighters this can't be true lol

 

[Possum Jenkins]

The USA tends to reward narcissism...

It's sucks.

Yeah, Conor's persona is the typical, classic American douche. Vulgar, in your face, braggadocious.

You rarely see that (note that the word "rarely" does not mean the same as "never") from athletes from elsewhere in the world. It seems to be a mostly American thing. Since American culture dominates the world, you're slowly starting to see copycats, starting with the English-speaking countries like Britain, Ireland, etc.