Conor McGregor Reacts to Press Conference Madness
Conor McGregor Reacts to Press Conference Madness
Conor McGregor is fed up with the media back-and-forth leading up to UFC 202 and just wants to fight
If you missed the UFC 202 pre-fight press conference today you missed out on one of the most chaotic moments in UFC history.
Proceedings began in awkward fashion this lunchtime with the press conference getting underway with only three of the four participants seated. McGregor arrived in typically late fashion and took his seat with thirty minutes of the press conference having already passed.
Diaz appeared annoyed at this and shortly after walked off the stage and threatened McGregor from the stands. Chaos then ensued with water bottles and cans of drink being thrown by the two opposing SBG and Skrap Pack camps from the stage to the back of the theatre.
It was all out pandemonium until Diaz and his crew were bundled out the doors and the two parties separated as a stunned audience in the David Copperfield Theatre in the MGM Grand watched on in shock of what they'd just witnessed.
McGregor was led from the stage to the back area where LA Times journalist Lance Pugmire managed to catch up with the Irishman about that had just happened.
"I just saw bottles being thrown," McGregor told Pugmire. "I was like, alright, f*** that, you want to try throwing bottles? I'll throw cans. It was all in self-defense. I was scared for my life."
McGregor then appeared on ESPN Sports Centre just an hour after the incident and further elaborated on what had happened.
"That's why you saw that up there," McGregor told SportsCenter. "I'm here to fight. I'm not here to talk and do these stupid press conferences that they keep trying to get me to do.
"You've got to do what's right for and not what's right for everybody else. So that was something I just said to myself, you know what, the time now is for me to focus and do what I came in here to do. I came here just to fight. I didn't come in here to do all the other stuff. I'm signed and I'm paid to fight, so that's it."
Proceedings began in awkward fashion this lunchtime with the press conference getting underway with only three of the four participants seated. McGregor arrived in typically late fashion and took his seat with thirty minutes of the press conference having already passed.
Diaz appeared annoyed at this and shortly after walked off the stage and threatened McGregor from the stands. Chaos then ensued with water bottles and cans of drink being thrown by the two opposing SBG and Skrap Pack camps from the stage to the back of the theatre.
It was all out pandemonium until Diaz and his crew were bundled out the doors and the two parties separated as a stunned audience in the David Copperfield Theatre in the MGM Grand watched on in shock of what they'd just witnessed.
McGregor was led from the stage to the back area where LA Times journalist Lance Pugmire managed to catch up with the Irishman about that had just happened.
"I just saw bottles being thrown," McGregor told Pugmire. "I was like, alright, f*** that, you want to try throwing bottles? I'll throw cans. It was all in self-defense. I was scared for my life."
McGregor then appeared on ESPN Sports Centre just an hour after the incident and further elaborated on what had happened.
"That's why you saw that up there," McGregor told SportsCenter. "I'm here to fight. I'm not here to talk and do these stupid press conferences that they keep trying to get me to do.
"You've got to do what's right for and not what's right for everybody else. So that was something I just said to myself, you know what, the time now is for me to focus and do what I came in here to do. I came here just to fight. I didn't come in here to do all the other stuff. I'm signed and I'm paid to fight, so that's it."