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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 on the nobody gives a fukk morning show did not get me this life.
Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a fukk about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.
I'm coming for my revenge here.
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.
With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.
I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.
There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.
He came in with no shyt to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.
I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.
For the record also -
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.
 

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I think Conor kinda bodied that especially on the closer


There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.
He came in with no shyt to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.
I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.
For the record also -
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.
 
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He's not wrong.

He could come out silver tongued devil style and wax poetic all over the place again but it would ring hollow. Fact remains, he hit Nate with his best shyt, he gassed, he got beat the fukk up AND submitted.


You can't fix that with promos, fists, feet, knees and elbows only.


UFC 200 was gonna sell either way. All the dude needed was a press conference and some training footage. The over the top stuff they did for the Aldo fight wasn't needed here
 

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Bingo exactly what I told my girl. Now he feels exactly what Aldo felt like, UFC still has that chain around his neck it might be gold and he may think it's a necklace but it's a chain.
 
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Keeping my overhead low, and my understand high
When Aldo complained about the press tours being a distraction from his training and prep he told him to shut up, its apart of the fight game

Now he wants to change up his tone with Nate loss. At the end of the day, he's not equal to Lorenzo and dana. He works for them

Bingo exactly what I told my girl. Now he feels exactly what Aldo felt like, UFC still has that chain around his next it might be gold and he may think it's a necklace but it's a chain.

Funny that his logic behind it was that he's facing a "taller, longer, heavier man"...lol. That's exactly what Aldo was facing vs him
 

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Funny that his logic behind it was that he's facing a "taller, longer, heavier man"...lol. That's exactly what Aldo was facing vs him
Guess Nate isn't some cholo throwing up gang sides with one hand and making balloons with the other :mjpls:
 
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I suspect the next time we see Conor will be for the NY card. Looks like it will be vs Aldo or Frankie tho he is gonna have to earn that Nate rematch back now
 
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