True to his word, Conor McGregor brought complete performance

For folks above a certain age, trying to understand the phenomenon that is Conor McGregor and the UFC is a lot like to trying to dig young people’s music.
True to his word, Conor McGregor brought complete performance

What could be the appeal of something and someone so bombastic?

McGregor, in particular, has been viewed sceptically as a triumph of style over substance; after all, would the UFC have fast-tracked anyone else quite as blatantly, if they weren’t so glad to have an English speaker who could mix Irish plamás with the best (or worst) US west-coast hip-hop brash and trash talk and shift from one mode to the other in an instant, depending on the circumstance and chat show?

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