Conor McGregor Talks His Short-Lived Retirement, Issues With The UFC, Floyd Mayweather Needing Him

Source: ESPN

Conor McGregor made waves just one month ago when he abruptly ‘retired’ from MMA, before being pulled from UFC 200 for failing to meet his media commitments for the fight. McGregor finally opened up about the situation this morning to Kenny Mayne of ESPN.

“I was in a time where I was like, figuring out something,” McGregor explained. “I didn’t just shut out and say no to everything. I just wanted to do reasonable media, and then, hey, all of a sudden, ‘Conor, it’s three months from the fight, we’ve got to drag you to 40-hour flights to come and do a runaround, New York, Vegas, California, 70 press conferences, 70 talk shows, adverts, all of this,’ and it’s like, I already made you $400 million last week. That was only last week, that fight. You know, I need to get right. That’s how it all came about.”

McGregor said that the disagreement stemmed from him wanting to make sure that his training was on point as he came off of a loss to Nate Diaz at UFC 196

“I wanted to focus and I was deep in the process, and especially at that particular moment, I just wanted a little bit more time. I didn’t shut it off completely. Reasonable media is what I said. I said I would do New York, I said I would do everything else after that. I just needed another little bit to set myself, and then the lack of communication, they weren’t having it. They were trying to push back on me, I was trying to push back on them, it blew up then,” McGregor said.

When McGregor didn’t get what he wanted, he took to Twitter to announce that he was ‘retiring young.’ McGregor said he didn’t expect what would happen after that, but …

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