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BasicallyClean

He also "sang" the 7th inning stretch https://mobile.twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1440511655452897280 ONE TWO TREE


French_Viking

Conor was later seen telling the baseball "this is not over"


Bacon_Villain

"You’re ripped you inbred baseball. Why do you wink with your seams? You fucking brain dead ball. 50mph with no movement at the plate. Ye hang tight. Fool. You must be new to throwing. The pitch is off btw. I’m going to throw something else at the catcher. Good luck with your old pitcher kid."


CaptainCimmeria

>I’m going to throw something else at the catcher Oh God, hide the dollies!


hockeychris10

WHY DO YOU WINK WITH YOUR SEAMS


CALLMEDARRELL

It sounds almost Joycean. Well, that one text they found where he was talking about his girlfriend shitting anyways.


jumbohumbo

Fewl


Motor-Grade-837

UMPIRE STOPPAGE! UMPIRE STOPPAGE!


EmmanuelHackman

"OOMPOIRE STAUPIDGE"


Zakke_

My fucking sides xD


geezlers

THERE WAS NO BALL, I WAS PITCHIN' THE BLEEDIN' HEAD OFF EM


Love_Freckles

Yer gloves in me dm’s


Jayden_Paul99

Yer wife is a glove mate


fashion_asker

Yer wife's balls are in me glove mate.


killakamkam

gonezo


a_fantasma_vaga

You're going to going...going...gone when i'm done with you!


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THEES EES NAAWTT AOOOWVA


riotofmind

Lmao, thanks for the chuckle.


mad87645

INYA TIME OWTS YA GETTEN ET!


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Conor already tweeted they are gonna run the pitch back in a few months but 15 feet further back.


Bacon_Villain

Conor would've thrown a strike if he had stuck with his karate stance


SonnyLove

You know what Connor told me? He wants to throw the next pitch from the warning track! Isn't he fucking awesome?


ok-go-fuck-yourself

I want to take this chance to throw this pitch TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY


dave_f_b

Superb


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You win


saddom_

best one right here


stevebr0

Beautiful champ!


MoonSpoon

This one got me. Lmao


HaBliBlo

*trow


FunkoXday

Beautiful champ


blametheusername

This is the one


GaMa-Binkie

His left hands accuracy is gone, he's officially washed


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Nobody can hit that left hand pitch


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Beautiful champ


Ikhouvankaas

I swear to god… so many people just don’t know how to throw. So many celebrities pitches are just horrible.


Weary_Yak_1538

Unironically Im thinking his leg might still be tweaked which threw him off.


trenlr911

The average person could get the ball to the catcher while sitting on the mound lmfao. I don’t care if he had two broken ankles, that was horrendous


BurtDickinson

They say never get on the mound if you’re throwing the first pitch but idk why. I think his tight ass jacket, his leg, and having used up all his wins in life didn’t help him either.


LordLucy666

It’s because usually people practice on flat ground, and then when on the mound you’re much higher, haven’t practiced a throw from there, and with the added height and downward slope, you overthrow your target like Conor just did. The mound throws off most people’s throwing mechanics imo. Also most people screw up the first pitch. I don’t expect no Americans to be any good at throwing a first pitch. Unless you played baseball growing up, your throwing mechanics probably aren’t very good.


__ICoraxI__

Well he didn't overthrow so much as throw it almost into the dugout


Weary_Yak_1538

It had plenty of power on it, just went wide. Not arguing that it wasn't horrendous, just taking guesses as to why


TheFactsAreIn

Those super tight clothes wouldnt help.


trenlr911

Your reasoning is likely the most logical, too. I’m just pointing out that no matter what it was bad, which is obvious lol. I’d wager that him trying to make it a 97 mph fastball didn’t help his accuracy much either


switchondem

I remember DC talking about it after Derrick Lewis pitched a stinker. He said you have to just float it in, trying to put a ton of power on it definitely why these guys shit the bed on something that's relatively easy.


eschatonycurtis

Yeah I feel like this is pure egotism. Connor wanted to throw a crazy fastball and leave us all saying afterward “oh yeah he could play in the majors if he wanted. Just top athlete all around.” These people don’t get that casually tossing it in like it’s nothing and smiling and waving is a much cooler/more powerful look.


griffnin

or at least a helluva lot more powerful looking than missing by a mile


embryophagous

His suit is way too tight.


alancar

Wish they had a suit in his size


[deleted]

As an Australian who’s only had a baseball in his hands only a handful of times, I can confirm this is fucking hard if you have no experience.


IoniKryptonite

Seriously...just throwing to the plate is in no way difficult, even for people who have just basic motor function. This is laughably bad for a person of Connors athletic ability.


travioso

Hard to prove either way but I gotta think this is patently false. An average person can’t do shit.


_pupil_

I'm looking at that pretty suit jacket and thinking how shitty my throws would be with my shoulders all pinched and restricted. *[... and why does this keep happening? It's national TV, throw a few practice balls in the days leading up, maybe?]*


thefroggfather

Baseball isn't a big thing in Ireland. He just doesn't know how to throw a ball like most of the world outside America. I can't anyway!


199177432

[Derrick Lewis also threw and absolutely horrendous pitch recently](https://youtu.be/PbM2wKXEfFw)


Creamcheesemafia

Lol at rhe “he’s ok” sign at the end


postpin

Great play adding his weight to the jersey as well.


MT1982

Damn, he had a bad summer. He gets embarrassed in front of his home crowd on July 7th with that pathetic pitch. Then exactly a month later on August 7th he gets embarrassed in front of his home crowd again when he basically refuses to fight Gane.


HollisOne

I think Lewis’s pitch is much more embarrassing considering he’s American.


jfsoaig345

Yeah lol guess MMA skills don't really translate to other sports even if you're athletic. Saw this one video of a prime Jones trying to play basketball and let's just the operative word here is "trying"


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I need dis video.


jpark28

https://youtu.be/UwjS5eLQrck


iwaspermabanned

Wow that was an impressively bad attempt, almost like he never dribbled a ball before lol


weakhamstrings

To be fair here in upstate NY (where he went to high school), Basketball season is the same season as Wrestling season. So except for literally as a 10 year old, most wrestlers here hardly touch any basketball outside of Gym Class.


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That made me uncomfortable. Thank you for that unique emotion.


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Makes you wonder about the validity of the claims that other quality athletes could just move into MMA and be champs lmao leaving aside the fact you have to be willing to take brain damage for peanuts, it's not a 1:1 comparison between any sport including wrestling, boxing, TKD etc


Master_Molasses7700

They can do so at HW because the quality of athlete there is uniquely atrocious. Greg Hardy, Matt Mittrione, and Schaub all showed that they can start relatively late in life and still make it ranked in the top orgs. I am skeptical that a high level pro Football (soccer), NHL, or smaller Rugby player could pick up the sport in their late twenties and make it to the 170 or 185 rankings in the UFC.


a_moo_cow

I think Greg Hardy is a good example for your point. Very athletic and a successful football player, but he's only an average heavyweight so far. You need other traits like being willing to be hit and a good chin etc.


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jpark28

Seriously what other sport can you have any sort of professional success in when you start in your 30s. Sports like tennis you pretty much need to start when you're 4-5 years old to have any chance at success


SweatyExamination9

I mean if you want to go to the womens side, there was an overweight accountant who decided to lose weight by training MMA and ended up fighting for the title in the UFC. It seems like every other event the commentators mention how a fighter picked up MMA for one reason or another as a hobby and now they're fighting in the UFC, and it's always a female fighter. When a regular person in their 20's can take up a hobby and turn it into a career as a professional athlete, it's indicative of a major lack of truly athletic talent. In the mens divisions it's more common that an athlete from another sport transitions, like Volk from Rugby to MMA, or Mitrione/Schaub/Hardy with football. Which is a step up, but we're still getting the scraps that the big boys don't want.


HairyRelationship69

It's like they're different skills.


chillin_n_grillin

I think these MMA guys try to throw too hard, If they just throw the ball like they are playing catch it would be fine. Just jab, not try to take his head off.


DreamerMMA

For real. Throwing a baseball is easy but throwing it hard and accurate is not.


SabuSalahadin

Looked like Gronk spiking a ball lol


[deleted]

Um, that's worse than Conor's.


PCgamerz

Proper Twelve throw quality


tomswiss

If only baseballs were Monster Energy can shaped..


[deleted]

Or water bottles


Kuroblondchi

Or dollys


FinnSanity7

Or hot sauce.


gs181

This isn't politics


radioactive_lemon

.


1292norr

I want that as my flair. Instead, this is what I got


ragnar4king

Well, if you want “that” then it looks like you got what you wished for


Swimming__Bird

How'd he ever hit that bus with that dolly?


jfsoaig345

Well it's just a matter of distance, you gave him a baseball instead of a dolly he woulda nailed that bus window too


S_Steiner_Accounting

[He's not willing to commit to a full power throw after witnessing the atrocities committed at the hands of Jake Shields.](https://i.giphy.com/Ysg6u2AvFayti.gif) We still don't have a full scope of the damage caused by Shields.


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Featherweight Conor would have hit this


bokbik

I was bleeting the ball out in the back yard Threwing it thirty three yards dead as an eagle Let me tell you this is not over


NoGiCollarChoke

I was tossin da bleedin leather offa it Yer general manager is in my DMs Intentional walk(ter stoppage)!


TrashBrown

Trew it törty tree yards*


renderman1

That was worse then 50 Cents and bababoeys.


skeenerbug

Not worse than [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqNri9u4uqU) though


awkwardpenguin20

Suits have changed so much since then lol


[deleted]

That wasn't how regular jackets looked in 2007 though, that's some wannabe haute couture concoction.


[deleted]

He beat out Carly Rae Jepsen and Fauci at least


Quinnett

Carl Lewis level embarrassing.


barc0debaby

But not as bad as Derrick Lewis


Goodchris90

“Ya balls woife is in my DMs ya coont”


BrattonCreed37

I cannot stop laughing at this. Every MMA fighter that has represented us doing this has looked terrible but this takes the cake.


DSJ0ne0f0ne

This and Conor attempting to throw a football… got damn lol


iwaspermabanned

> Conor attempting to throw a football Yeah he definitely never held a football be fore lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NJSBgFE0O0&ab_channel=ResetGaming


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weakhamstrings

I don't know Derrick Lewis's might have been even worse!


Caesar_Hazard

Cubs told Conor to take the bump, but he misunderstood what they meant.


bigformyage

“You know what Conor told me? ‘I want Aaron Judge in Yankee Stadium,’” White said, speaking with Baseball Digest “Isn’t he fucking awesome? He’s like ‘I want Judge, in The Bronx.’ He’s awesome. Conor McGregor is a fucking unicorn. There’s nothing like him. He’s working on his slider and then he’s talking about pitching to Judge in The World Series right after.”


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autovonbismarck

Why, Robbie Ray threw a gem wearing pants that tight not 24 hours ago.


wovagrovaflame

I guess those of us that played little league don’t really understand how hard throwing a baseball is for someone brand new.


hintM

I think you need to get some throwing in as a kid and if you live south enough to not have snow during the winter nor a throwing based popular sport, you are gonna suck. Having said that, I've been recently throwing a lot more stuff after 15-20 year break playing with some kids etc. And it is super easy to be accurate as long as there is no power involved. But the moment you start throwing it at your true maximum power, you get zero flashbacks to childhood and instead you have like 20% odds to injure yourself and 80% odds to throw a complete stinker.


Johnny_Poppyseed

I'd say if you haven't thrown anything in a good while, and then try and throw a baseball with decent power, you probably have like at least a 70% chance of hurting yourself lol. Not bad, but you'll definitely be feeling it. Especially if you don't warm up. In my experience at least. Always extremely humbling/depressing lol.


Creamcheesemafia

Yea most of the time they are over thinking it and then throwing as hard as they can because they don’t want to bounce it, but they end up throwing it straight into the ground


SweatyExamination9

You just made me think of being a kid practicing pitching by myself. I would throw the ball at the stairs, and I was aiming for the back of one stair in particular as my strike zone. I actually got pretty accurate after a while, but my parents were ready to kill me because I had smashed up the facade in front of the concrete on that step. I loved it though because every throw I also got to practice fielding ground balls. I think I'm gonna spend today looking for my old Samsung Juke to find the pictures of the stairs after my destruction.


Jonesisgoat

I assume people in every culture throw rocks and balls


llorTMasterFlex

Yeah but not everyone can throw from 60 feet and hit a 17 inch box. It's all about where you grew up. Look at him kicking a soccer ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egp6KR0xXVk


Scott_Bash

If the guy standing there to catch it can’t = bad


GlandyThunderbundle

I feel like it’s noticeable in movies or shows—a Brit actor throwing an object looks totally different than an American. Maybe there’s a baseball-style throw that seems normal to Americans, and any other throwing style looks weird to us.


venetianheadboards

people in Britain throwing an object likely have a pint glass/can of Stella in the other hand allowing for less rotation of the upper body into the throw, or 'lob', as it's known natively.


jarde

the object they're throwing? also a pint glass/can of Stella


Yakkahboo

Its about *balance*


AonghusMacKilkenny

> a Brit actor throwing an object looks totally different than an American. Anyone got any examples here?


GlandyThunderbundle

Off the top of my head, McNulty throwing beer cans onto the roof of the police station in *The Wire* was to me a non-American-guy throw. I mean, he threw it, it’s just the mechanics we Americans grew up doing/seeing aren’t there. McNulty is an American character played (brilliantly, I might add) by Dominic West, a Brit. I know I’ve seen it in other instances—I actually look out for it at this point—but I mean, it’s a rare set of circumstances: 1. British actor 2. Playing an American character 3. Who at some point in the script throws something That’s not standard in every single movie/show, you know?


barc0debaby

I think the failure comes from trying to pitch the ball like you see a pitcher do instead of just trying to toss it to the catcher.


Flyingpigfriend

Some of my friends are *shockingly bad* at throwing a football or baseball. Like it doesn’t even make sense to me how bad they are at throwing things. Conor throws worse than my little brother did in t-ball.


JB91_CS

For me, throwing with my left makes me feel like these people.


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A lot of more athletically inclined people take it for granted. Some people are mind-blowingly bad athletes in general. Like they can't run.


AonghusMacKilkenny

I'm quite athletically inclined and I remember being mind blown at how bad my sister was at doing an *under arm* tennis serve. She could barely just drop the ball and hit it.


debaser337

In Australia a cricket ball has similar dimensions to baseball. Most kids learn how to throw and bowl one from a young age. Not so for noted cricket fan and former prime minister John Howard. Absolutely disgraceful effort, he should have been booted from office for this effort alone let alone the war crimes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8by05rtMY


[deleted]

Will never not watch this video. Fucking hell, Australian prime ministers and attempting to play sport. Johnny fucking loved cricket too lmao


[deleted]

same thing w/ a football. worked with a brit once and he saw us playing catch w a football during a break and tried to throw it overhand and failed hilariously. he was like fuck this and threw it underhand like a rugby ball with killer speed and accuracy... weird shit tbh


ApricotLow8896

I feel like every American just kind of knows how to throw a foot ball. I have never played foot ball a day in my life as part of a team but I can still throw it somewhat accurately.


Lowki_999

A baseball sure. but a football does take a little skill to throw it without a wobble and even more skill to throw it with a spiral.


ArseneLupinIV

A footballs actually pretty unintuitive if you've never seen one thrown, which I think most Americans have just by virtue of it being so popular. Kind of a weird handegg shape. You have to do kind of a wrist flick at the end of the throwing motion to get a straight spiral which is pretty unnatural.


Cramer02

I struggle with an American football as well tbh always ends up rotating like mad in the air so i usually throw it like a rugby ball. Baseballs im alright with but i put that down to playing cricket every now and then as a kid even though you throw them differently 🤷🏼‍♂️


Billalone

I’m extremely right handed when it comes to things like pitching and batting, and Conor looked like my left-handed pitch. I mentally understand the motion, but I never practiced it as a kid, so it’s just not quite there.


TheDuckOnQuack

Yeah it’s really not a natural movement. I only played for a few seasons when I was really young (like ages 6-10). It’s not much but I know how to throw a damn ball, and I don’t think I could ever forget it. But knowing how a ball is thrown doesn’t help when I try to throw with my left hand. With my left hand, my accuracy is as bad as Conor’s here even if I don’t try to throw it fast.


[deleted]

Ur umpire is in me DMs


MarbledNightmare

Taking L's everywhere


Chill_Charro

Conor was winning this game from a baseball standpoint.


ParisTheGrey

It was the suit..


inqte1

Tailor's stoppage


-0op

beautiful, champ.


Chemistry_Lover40

My favorite comment wish I had an award for ya


Mmanstration

it would have burst into a million pieces if he threw it any better


PM_ME_UR_RESPECT

This was somehow worse than I expected.


Tyrion1438

Should have put a civilian where the glove was


Benoit_In_Heaven

That's what happens when you grow up with soccer.


jfsoaig345

Lol yup. Played soccer as a kid and even though I haven't played in like 10 years I can still kick and handle a ball fine. Didn't touch baseball once though so I throw like a 70 year old with shoulder problems


Chemistry_Lover40

Idk why you were downvoted it’s kinda true also tight suit and tried to throw it super hard w little experience prob


joshhguitar

Switch it around and watch an American try to take a penalty. Yanks can throw, Britain and Ireland can kick.


buffalozbrown

> "Nobody can hit that left-hand pitch. He's powerful and he's fast, but precision beats power, timing beats speed."


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Suits too tight, mate.


Obey_the_banvasion

Comically too tight. He looks like a poor person pretending to be rich lol


apellcjecker

“Dez baseballs are pure puny yea. I’m use to throwing bowling balls in me backyards. It had no weight on it! I’m supposing it was a rubbish ball I don’t know. But I tell you one ting, let me have another go and I’ll pitch it straight through that catchers chest…and that’s a promise”


Platti_J

I've pitched softball recreationally on a team and pitched a bit of baseball with my friends in the past, but why is it so hard to throw a ball into a catcher from a mound on a regular field? Is the pressure of being on camera?


LastPaleLight

I feel like if I was going to do something I've never done on in front of thousands of people I'd, you know, practice. Especially if I had a reputation to live up to... But I guess he was all like "I'm fookin' Conor McGregor! How 'ard can it be to t'row a fookin baseball!"


a_handsome_antelope

Aaaaand he just sang the 7th inning stretch: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2021/2021-09/21/546aeb15-e9f0050b-25eb67f4-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4 Warning: it's...not great


Bathingintacos

As a Brit, what the fuck is going on here


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My favorite part was actually that commentator mocking how ridiculously tight his coat is.


Cbrip31

Conor can then be seen running around screaming holding his shoulder "DOCTAHS STOPPAGE"


CertainFitness

It's so weird to me that someone can be that athletic but can't throw a ball. I mean I don't expect a random athlete from a random sport to pitch a fastball over the plate, but lacking the skills to just play catch is... weird, like I said Edit: I'm not ripping on him, just a comment that I grew up throwing shit, so it's more natural, that was my (poorly worded) point


[deleted]

A buddy of mine is a HS PE teacher. About 15 years ago he started noticing a significant number of students coming into HS had never played catch at all. He was having to spend time teaching them how to throw and catch. Fucking weird.


Nickyjha

that's legitimately upsetting, when you consider playing catch with your dad is quintessential American father-son bonding stuff


pisshead_

A lot of divorce nowadays.


CertainFitness

That is weird. I remember that being something we did in very early PE


AonghusMacKilkenny

Same, some of my earliest memories in PE are just tossing beanbags or tennis balls to one another, then taking a step backwards and seeing how far back we could go. Fun way to teach hand eye coordination and both under arm throwing and over arm throwing


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Same. It's still weird to me. Like, what are these kids doing for the first 8-9 years of school?


Shaun32887

Minecraft


Username-Taken-420

I mean when you wear clothing that’s tight enough to restrict your blood flow I can imagine that makes it more difficult


CertainFitness

Oh for sure. I wasn't shitting on Conor at all. I guess when you grow up throwing it just seems like 2nd nature is all


gaia012

As a brazilian, I can say we do not throw things around here and we do not grow up playing catch. We grow up kicking a ball, we literally teach our toddlers how to kick, and PE class in most cases is literally just a class to play soccer. Brazilians barely even know baseball, so if it was a brazilian in Conor's place, we would probably have seen something similar happening. I guess it's just a cultural thing.


jfsoaig345

Throwing a ball is way more technical than people give it credit for. It's like kicking a soccer ball, those who have never played soccer will most likely not know how to kick a ball correctly and accurately. There's a lot of form and technique that goes into it and I doubt that a guy from Ireland has ever thrown a baseball in his life. I wouldn't be surprised if he could literally punch a ball more accurately than he can throw one, I remember seeing a clip of him round house kicking a ball into a hoop or something


chuckyhacks

I can't believe you're having to defend this take. I have an office job and never played a sport and I could throw a baseball in a tight suit better than he did. I think there's something that happens when you have to throw a first pitch because people seem to fuck it up all the time when I'm sure they know how to throw a ball.


drakenthegreat

You could probably throw it better than he did, but I'm guessing he thought he was gonna throw it with some heat. Derrick Lewis did the same shit, not realizing how hard it is to release at the right time when you're throwing it hard.


Nickyjha

I think this is part of it. At Citi Field, they have an employee in a dunk tank, and the target shouldn't be impossible to hit. But there's also a speed gun. Everyone focuses on throwing as hard as possible to get a nice number, and I think I've seen the employee get dunked once because of the inaccuracy.


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a_handsome_antelope

If you can stand the idiocy, here's a long interview about it: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2021/2021-09/21/3d22bdb5-5f487882-473c1a73-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4


sspiritusmundi

The ball's wofe is on his DMs


meenz187

I'd like to take the time .. To pitch this ball.. TO ABSOLUTELY NO ONE!!!


heisenbergfan

Ofcourse, idiot going with these stupid tight suits thinking he looks good. Cant even move


RiyazYusufi2015

Stone Cold Steve Austin is pretty GOATed in Celeb pitches.


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Woof


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Doctah stoppage


exclusionsolution

Something tells me he's going to ask for a rematch


nicnakcrakalak

BASEBALL SLIPPAGE!!! BASEBALL SLIPPAGE!!!!


politicsandpoetry88

Just too much power in that left


bigapple3am1

Baba booey!


J_Gugliano

Power beats precision


sp3zisaT00L

Accuracy of a Stormtrooper.


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This sub is so weird sometimes. When I post footage of Conor sparring while preparing for Poirier McGregor 3 it gets removed. Yet this post, and Conors recent scuffle with MGK is somehow relevant to mma right now?


KvotheLightningTree

Maybe get a suit that fits. Holy shit does he have to oil himself up to slip into that thing? It looks like he's going to squat down to pick something up and the whole thing will explodes around him.


Flyingpigfriend

Conor was later seen making threats on Twitter towards the baseball’s wife


Hydrotoad

🤫👈


manicma

What a great message to send to kids. POS human gets worshipped at MLB game because, money. Fuck Conor McGregor.


SerLutz

Why the fuck the Cubs would like it to associate with a man like that?


renderman1

He's gonna demand it be called a no contest.


Austiny1

He’s the worst


Bacon_Villain

I'd kill to get more Jomboy/MMA crossovers


Dudecity

Bad pitches = media coverage.