Gracious In Defeat, Conor McGregor Issues Classy, Heartfelt Tribute To Fans And Floyd Mayweather

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In his first social media post since losing to Floyd Mayweather, “The Notorious One” Conor McGregor was a little more humble than usual as he issued an emotional and thankful statement on Instagram.

In the statement, McGregor pays tribute to all of his loyal fans, the team that helped him both make the fight happen as well as trained him so well that he was able to put on a show that far exceeded most people’s expectations.

McGregor also gave props to his opponent Floyd Mayweather and even went so far as to say that the skills Mayweather exhibited in the boxing ring would have translated greatly over to MMA if he had ever decided to choose that career path.

Just coming back around after a whirlwind couple of days. Thank you to all the fans for the support of the fight and the event! Without your support we as fighters are nothing so I thank you all!

Thank you to my team of coaches and training partners!

I had an amazing team and it truly was an amazing and enjoyable camp, and honestly I feel with just a little change in certain areas of the prep, we could have built the engine for 12 full rounds under stress, and got the better result on the night.

Getting to 12 rounds alone in practice was always the challenge in this camp. We started slowly getting to the 12 and decreasing the stress in the rounds the closer it got to 12. I think for the time we had, 10 weeks in camp, it had to be done this way. If I began with a loaded 12 rounds under much stress I would have only hit a brick wall and lost progress as a result and potentially not made the fight. A little more time and we could have made the 12 cleanly, while under more stress, and made it through the later rounds in the actual fight. I feel every decision we made at each given time was the correct decision, and I’m proud of everyone of my team for what we done in the short time that we done it. 30 minutes was the longest I have fought in a ring or cage or anywhere. Surpassing my previous time of 25 minutes. I am happy for the experience and happy to all take these great lessons with me and implement them into my camp going forward.

Another day another lesson!

Congrats to Floyd on a well fought match. Very experienced and methodical in his work. I wish him well in retirement. He is a heck of a boxer. His experience, his patience and his endurance won him this fight hands down. I always told him he was not a fighter but a boxer. But sharing the ring with him he is certainly a solid fighter. Strong in the clinch. Great understanding of frames and head position. He has some very strong tools he could bring into an MMA game for sure.

Here is a toast of whiskey to everyone involved in this event and everyone who enjoyed it!

Thank you to all! Onto the next one!

No, thank you Conor, for doing something, many somethings, that almost no one in the sporting world thought would ever happen.

Heck, without you doing the almost impossible we never would have had moments like these…

…and that would have been a damn shame.

Now go finish that Nate Diaz trilogy, will ya?