White: Conor McGregor wages mental warfare on same level as Muhammad Ali

Dana White believes Conor McGregor is right up there with Muhammad Ali when it comes to mental warfare. And considering the mental warfare “The Notorious” and UFC are putting fans through right now, we agree.

We’re four days into a strange news blackout on McGregor’s UFC 303 fight as the Mac appears to be in the middle of assessing the severity of an injury he’s suffered in training. We don’t know for sure because the UFC isn’t telling us what’s up, and neither is Conor past a few cryptic tweets.

How serious is this injury? Is McGregor on the edge of pulling out? Or are we at a point where the show will go on, but Conor is engaged in head games to mess with his opponent Michael Chandler?

late night partying schedule. It’s certainly less depressing than the alternative. So of course that’s how Dana White is spinning the partying.

In an episode of Flagrant filmed before Conor pulled out of the Dublin presser, UFC CEO Dana White suggested McGregor could be playing everyone with his head games.

“I don’t ever like to compare people to Muhammad Ali, cuz to me, he’s the f—ing [man],” White said (via MiddleEasy). “And f— what he did in fighting, just as a human, what that guy accomplished, right? But, I don’t give a f— what anybody says. Ali, Conor, [same] level when it comes to mental warfare, really the two best of all time when it comes to mental warfare.”

McGregor’s over-the-top attempts to enrage Dustin Poirier coming into their third fight didn’t really work out. And Michael Chandler seems ready to bring the fight no matter how many Instagram videos Mac posts at the club.

Perhaps we are the ones Conor McGregor is playing head games with. Lots of sports fans have been calling the Irish sports star a washed up party animal since he lost to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018. Now he’s playing things up just so he can smash expectations at UFC 303. See, isn’t that possibility way more fun than the alternatives?