The thing about Conor McGregor is…
Wait, wait. Before we get into that, here’s the thing: You hang around the fight game long enough and you grow accustomed to getting lied to. In fact, you develop a taste for it -- you begin to categorize lies based on efficiency and clarity of purpose, like a connoisseur. There are more agendas, more self-serving narratives, more scales of exaggeration in play than can ever be meaningful. There’s a reason people say, "and here we are, at the moment of truth!" when fighters touch gloves, you know what I mean?
It’s because we’ve finally arrived at that moment from a place of total B.