Conor McGregor – ‘At 27 years of age, I had the game conquered’
UFC megastar Conor McGregor will be making his return to the octagon in July to face Max Holloway at UFC 329. Speaking to Paramount ahead of his return at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the Irish star spoke about the pitfalls of fame:
“Fame has its pitfalls. You better move carefully in this world, for sure, probably even more so now. I’ve taken a lot of lessons in my life, and it’s just about self-discovery. Studying yourself. Learning yourself. Learning triggers. I find myself even now still in a fight with an old version of me or old ways that don’t serve me and new ways and a new version of me. I went through some treatment, I done a lot of self-reflective work on myself. Internal work and it was outside of this bubble that we find ourself now when I return to the fight game.”
Conor McGregor on the fight game
McGregor also discussed how he had “conquered” the fight game in his mid-to-late 20s and how it appeared to get to his head:
“At 27 years of age, I had the game conquered. Two-weight world champion, I had the Floyd bout, boxed off, I was only 27 years of age. I had the game wrapped up in a blink. What more was I to do? I got lost. I got lost in it. Made some mistakes off of that and that’s it. There may be pockets where I would have disrespected and disgraced the position that god put me in. That’s probably accurate. It is accurate in fact. But I for sure love this game.“
Credit to MMANews for the transcription
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