Conor McGregor's Career-Changing Injury at UFC Fight Night

Because Connor versus Max was a done. The fight sucked, okay? There's no other way around it. The lead-up, the hype, the build-up. At least nobody paid $79.99 for it, okay? The card itself was tremendous. There were eight first-round stoppages throughout that entire card. Patty Pimlett had an incredible submission in the first round after an unbelievable walkout. The whole card delivered for International Fight Week as to what you would like. And the folks who were involved with the UFC are very much trying to push that narrative. Because that is a gigantic deal. Because what happened in the main event ended Conor McGregor's career as a premier, top-of-the-bill UFC fighter. His MMA career ended on Saturday night. With another injury of catastrophic nature. We're arguing, is it an ACL? Is it a meniscus? What is it? What was the knee injury for Conor McGregor? It doesn't matter what the injury is. He has to have surgery. And the surgery will take him out four, five, six, seven months. Whatever it might be. And during those months, Conor, who has openly said that he is going through hell, you have to be really concerned about his future. Quote, I am beyond dark here, it's hell. This is a guy who has dealt with drug abuse and alcohol abuse and all sorts of demons. And he goes down 69 seconds, blows out the knee. And the last two times we've seen Conor McGregor in the octagon against Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway in back-to-back fights, 21 and 26. Conor McGregor has left the octagon with a serious leg injury. It's a different leg this time. But did he fight on a bad leg? Did he go into the event already hurt? I don't know. I don't think it matters, to be quite honest. I know there's a lot of people who are trying to do the conspiracy theorist thing. And I'll put it up here in a second about all the different conspiracy theories that are running around as to whether or not Conor McGregor was healthy entering the octagon on Saturday night. And was there some type of fix in that Conor, because of the big bet, there was a $900,000 bet that got reported that came in right before on Max Holloway. There's this theory out there that because the number at certain books closed as high as minus 390, I thought it was 290. It actually was 390 as to some books in terms of all the money that came in late for Max, late from the pros. And my problem with all of this, my problem with that is that people aren't paying attention to how gambling works, or they don't know how gambling works. So here's the issue. The issue is if you were a professional gambler and you wanted to bet on Max, why were you betting early? There was no point in betting early. The public was going to bet Conor like the fight had already gone off and the McGregor money just kept on coming in and coming in and coming in. So as the McGregor money came in, you just watched that number come down. You wanted to get the lowest number as possible on Max. And it was at some point down to 210 or $2 at certain books. And then all the money came in on Max. And as it poured in, the number went up, went up, went up, went up all the way up to minus 390. That is basically what happens when you're going to see money on a favorite because the professionals were waiting for Max. They were waiting for that number on Holloway. And once they got it, then they hammered it. And they hammered it big. And that drove the price straight through the roof before the fight went off. There's no conspiracy with that. That is not somebody new. There's none of that, okay? Nobody knew. It's just that betting on a guy after five years off with a serious leg injury was a stupid bet. I said it all week. I wanted Conor to win. I wanted to believe. You heard Joe Rogan during the broadcast say, I want to believe. I want to believe in aliens and Conor McGregor. I want to believe this guy actually can do something special again in the Octagon. The fight world is better. The UFC is better when Conor is out there doing his thing. But betting on Conor was a dumb idea. That was ridiculous. Five years out of the Octagon, the guy was not the same fighter. His pre-fight body language was awful.