No, seriously. McGregor just tweeted out the following:
No idea if this is real or what but it sure as hell seems like it has come out of no where. I mean, that’s the sound of hundreds of millions in future UFC revenue being flushed down the crapper. If he does retire, it kinda makes no sense at all. Unless he has a terminal illness, it’s not like he couldn’t just take time off. And to go out on a loss against Nate Diaz? I dunno. I think he’s fucking around and will later say, “Yeah. Young. But not tomorrow. I’ll be young next year too, guys.” Or, I suspect “Twitter account was hacked” is going to be uttered soon.
If not: shit.
Update: Nate Diaz weighed in:
Nate is everything I wish I was if I’d been born a little slow.
Update: UFC officially announced McGregor is off UFC 200. This is getting weirder.
Well, you are an asshole for calling me dumb.
It looks like this is a money play… so who blinks? UFC of Conor? Both will lose millions if they actually blow up the UFC 200 fight. Does Conor want ZERO instead of what UFC has offered him? Does UFC want to blow out 40 million in PPV buy revenue (I figure they lose at least 600,000 without Conor).
The only ace in the hole for UFC is if they can get GSP in there; then they can tell Conor to fuck off and wait for him to come crawling back.
This is an interesting poker game.
Comon guys….. he said “retire young”…… that doesn’t mean anything more than retiring before his early 30’s. How people are taking this as “retiring today” I don’t get….
relax
Because people don’t generally announce they are retiring with the implication it is going to be years in advance, Dave. He certainly knew how this would be taken. I agree, he’s most likely being sarcastic but your response that you don’t get how people think this means tomorrow, is even more dumb than people believing his tweet.