Conor McGregor releases statement: I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor promised a statement would be released, and he’s delivered. On his official Facebook page, McGregor addressed why he chose not to attend the UFC’s scheduled press conference and commercial shoots for UFC 200, whether he still wants to fight at UFC 200 even though he’s been pulled, confirmation that he is NOT retiring from MMA, plus the sheer amount of money he’s made for the UFC in his last 3 fights.

It’s a lot to digest, but it’s well worth the read. Check out the full statement below, or head over to his Facebook wall:

“I am just trying to do my job and fight here. I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote. I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting. There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop. 50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I’m left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this. Nothing else was going through my mind.

It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life. Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie …

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