Dana White Believes ‘Rich’ Conor McGregor Could Be Done With MMA

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Conor McGregor is living a pretty cushy life after making a reported $100 million against Floyd Mayweather. According to UFC president Dana White, McGregor has been living it up and hasn’t really been in a hurry to get back into the octagon.

Via MMA Fighting

“ “We were gonna fight him, regardless of what [McGregor’s manager] Audie [Attar] says, we were working on a fight for him at the end of the year. And he’s just not ready. Listen … Conor might never fight again. The guy’s got a f*cking hundred million dollars.

“These guys make money and that’s it. Fighting is the worst. Try to get up and get punched in the face every day when you’ve got $100 million in the bank. Money changes everything for a lot of people.”

White believes McGregor’s conduct at Bellator 187 is somewhere due to the recent insurgence of a ridiculous amount of money from the Floyd Mayweather boxing match in August.

“He’s a young, rich kid who is a god in Ireland,” White said. “That’s not the healthiest environment either. It’s all part of it. I don’t know if you guys remember in the very beginning with Jon Jones. There’s no doubt the talent was there. I used to go, ‘The guy is talented, but he’s young, he’s rich, he’s the king of the world now. Hopefully he can keep it together.’ That was way before the crazy shit started to happen. And there it is. It happens.

“What’s weird is it happens more in this sport, in fighting, in the fighting business, more than any other sport.”

It’s going to be tough for Conor to get back to making UFC type money when Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather are out there teasing him with fights.