The news carved the Irish already getting into bed. The superstar of the mixed martial arts (MMA), Conor McGregor, announced that he would apply for the country in the next elections in Ireland. A statement that arrived just three days after having an extensive conversation with Donald Trump in the White House. The decision is yours and is easy. Vótame as your president and we will save Ireland together, ”wrote The Notorious (his battle nickname) on his social networks. With this announcement, whatever Champion in two UFC divisionsMMA’s biggest League closes the circle: he spent some time living on the state’s aid while forging his career as a fighter and now wants to return his help assuming his address.
Although the main urgency that has pushed McGregor to take a step thus has been the issue of immigration, which ensures that it is uncontrolled in its homeland. In fact, its main reason for this ‘sprint’ towards the Presidency is to adhere to the European Union Migration Pact before June 12, 2026 to “save Ireland.” The athlete, who does not give stitch without a thread despite the eccentric of his personality, has served an image with one of his children in front of his private jet and with a Trump -style cap with the phrase ‘Make Irland Great Again’ to expose his main objectives if he manages to become the Prime Minister of Ireland.
McGregor had already suggested in the past that he could try to appear to the elections, however, he would face a great obstacle to get his name to appear on the ballot, since a candidate must be proposed by at least 20 of the 234 members of the low and tall cameras of Parliament or for four of the 31 local councils in the country. Very few Irish politicians elected share the firm anti -immigrant opinions of McGregor and many publicly criticized him after the civil case last November.
The Irish Mixed Martial Arts fighter took advantage of his visit in the United States to criticize immigration policies, which caused to receive a reprimand from the country’s prime minister, Micheál Martin, who condemned his comments and recriminated his attitude because he did not represent any political position: “The comments of Conor McGregor are wrong and do not reflect the spirit or opinions of the people of the people,” he said. Social Martin, whose coalition government was re -elected last November.
«Between today and June 12, 2026 several legislative policies must be approved by both chambers and then signed by the president. The next presidential elections must take place on November 11, 2025. Who else will face the government and will oppose this bill? Any other presidential candidate tried to propose will not offer them resistance. I will do it!», Said McGregor in his statement. In addition, he has claimed that he will submit the bill on the migratory pact to a referendum. Undoubtedly, he wants to revolutionize the Irish policy and, a priori, support will not be lacking, due to the image of sports superstar that was forged in his country thanks to the mixed martial arts.
Fontanero to the Forbes list
To understand the size of what McGregor supposes, you have to apply the context of your professional career. As a holder, The Notorious happened, in just a decade, of being a humble plumber who lived on the aid of the State in Ireland to lead the Forbes list as the best paid athlete in the world, ahead of Leo Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. All this thanks to the conquest of two world UFC titles, in the pen and lightweight weight, and the proliferation of its various businesses, especially that of the Güisqui proper Twelve, A brand that came to sell for 130 million euros.
The truth is that mixed martial arts are, since the beginning of this century, the sport that has experienced the most growth, especially in recent years. Much of blame was the Irish fighter, turned into a social phenomenon thanks to his ability to knock out his rivals and his inexhaustible charisma, dragging a country that went out of his way to him. During the twelve -month period that ended in May 2021, McGregor won a whopping 180 million dollars.
And that, traditionally, McGregor’s family had never been of great luxuries. The need for money was pressing. Therefore, the Irish fighter left his studies and began to learn the trade of his father: the plumbing. He spent years working hard, fixing the pipes, downspouts or the task to play that day. But he, inside, knew that his paths must be others. He continued training. Fight after fighting. With conviction. “My dream was always being the world martial arts world champion,” he said on occasion. In anonymity a star was being forged, while spoiled with the economic support of his girlfriend at the time and current woman, Dee Devlin, and the aid he received from the Irish State.
At 20, he professionally debuted in MMA against a compatriot of his, Gary Morris, whom he knocked out in the second assault. The adventure towards the top began and there was no way to give up in the attempt. This was the fighting one after another, becoming a champion in two different divisions of Cage Warriors, the British league par excellence. And that was how he reached the UFC, where thanks to his ability to speak and sell and, of course, to crush his rivals with his hands, he managed to take the titles of the pen and light weight simultaneously.
Already at that stage at UFC, the zeros of their current accounts shot. Hundreds of sponsors came up to the Irish superstar. Far were those moments of hardships where the accounts did not arrive to seriously carry a nutrition of elite athletes. In addition, to take advantage of his rising image, McGregor created with his manager, Audie Attar, his own brand of Güisqui, sold by hundreds of millions of dollars. The truth is that, since the last UFC title in 2016, His sporty voracity was disappearingreplaced by a life of luxuries and excesses.
In 2018, the one that is still the fight that most vision payments (PPV) sold in the history of the MMA, the confrontation against Khabib Nurmagomedov, in which it fell defeated. Then it would arrive, in 2020, a small green outbreak, beating Donald Cerrone in the first assault. But that would be his last victory to this day. In 2021, he lost twice against Dustin Poirier, seriously injuring his leg. And he didn’t fight again. He was close to doing so last year, but an injury moved him away from the octagon again. Meanwhile, the headlines were for other reasons, much less decorous.
Controversies and rape judgments
At the end of last year, the World Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) star was sentenced by a civil court in Dublin to pay almost 250,000 euros [260.000 dólares] As damage and damages to a woman who accused her of a rape in 2018. McGregor, 36, was accused by Nikita Hand of “having raped and beaten brutally” in a hotel room in Dublin. The athlete said the relationship existed, but “she was consensual.”
This same year, he was accused of sexual aggression during an NBA party, in a civil lawsuit filed against the Irish in a court in the United States. The incident occurred, always according to the plaintiff’s version, in 2023, and has resulted in a criminal accusation against McGregor, that the Florida State Prosecutor’s Office refused to continue. In her story, the woman, whose name has not been made public, alleges that McGregor sexually assaulted her in the bathrooms of the Kaseya Center of the Miami Heat, in June 2023.
But the extra -sports jaleos that McGregor has had could not have the fingers of their two hands. For example, the Irishman was again the protagonist of a reproachable episode away from the octagon in 2019. The Notorious was captured in a video assaulting an older man inside a bar. The reason? The man would have twice refused to drink the Güisqui that the former UFC champion had offered him. Undoubtedly, McGregor changed the game of mixed martial arts, allowing barriers to transcend and become a very prosperous business when he stepped on the octagon, but was a fighter who did not know how to manage the pressure that meant to be an example for many other athletes.
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