{"id":270048,"date":"2019-03-26T06:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1026791"},"modified":"2019-03-26T06:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:22:54","slug":"conor-mcgregor-announces-retirement-from-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/conor-mcgregor-announces-retirement-from-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor Announces Retirement From MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019226\/rs_1024x759-190326044524-1024-Conor-McGregor-LT-032619-GettyImages-1047272848.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Conor McGregor\" alt=\"Conor McGregor\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Brandon Magnus\/Zuffa LLC\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.519823788546\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.361233480176\">\n<p><strong>Conor McGregor<\/strong> announced his retirement from mixed martial arts on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey guys quick announcement, I&#8217;ve decided to retire from the sport formally known as &#8216;Mixed Martial Arts&#8217; today,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;I wish all my old colleagues well going forward in competition. I now join my former partners on this venture, already in retirement. Proper Pina Coladas on me fellas!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news came just hours after the UFC star appeared on <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>. During his interview, McGregor said he was &#8220;in talks&#8221; for another fight this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My next fight\u2014we&#8217;re in talks for July\u2026.So, we&#8217;ll see what happens,&#8221; he said. A lot of politics and going on. The fight game is a mad game\u2026To my fans, I am in shape, and I am ready.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also said &#8220;there are many opponents&#8221; he could face and that he could &#8220;pick who I please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve done a lot. I&#8217;ve fought a lot. I&#8217;ve never pulled out of contests. You know, I&#8217;ve gone through some crazy injuries and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/925665\/conor-mcgregor-arrested-for-allegedly-attacking-bus-filled-with-ufc-fighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crazy external situations<\/a> that many a man would sprint for the hills if it happened to them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I stood firm and I&#8217;ve done my peace for the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>In addition, he referred to his whiskey company, Proper No. Twelve Whiskey, as his &#8220;baby&#8221; and said he has a lot of &#8220;great entities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t necessarily need to fight. I am set for life. My family is set for life. We are good,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I am eager to fight. So, we&#8217;ll see what happens. I&#8217;m just staying ready, as I like to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"55.597633136095\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.6272189349112\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Hey guys quick announcement, I\u2019ve decided to retire from the sport formally known as \u201cMixed Martial Art\u201d today.<br \/>I wish all my old colleagues well going forward in competition.<br \/>I now join my former partners on this venture, already in retirement.<br \/>Proper Pina Coladas on me fellas!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1110410797925175296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.075609756098\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.590243902439\">\n<p>As fans will recall, this wasn&#8217;t the first time McGregor had announced his retirement. Back in 2016, he revealed he was going to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thenotoriousmma\/status\/722492455732584448?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retire young<\/a>.&#8221; So, some fans were a bit skeptical about the recent news.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>According to UFC, McGregor holds a 21-4-0 record. He also holds two division UFC World Champion titles. His last fight was against&nbsp;<strong>Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/strong>, which he lost in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1026791\/conor-mcgregor-announces-retirement-from-mma?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Magnus\/Zuffa LLC\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Conor McGregor announced his retirement from mixed martial arts on Tuesday. &#8220;Hey guys quick announcement, I&#8217;ve decided to retire from the sport formally known as &#8216;Mixed Martial Arts&#8217; today,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;I wish all my old colleagues well going forward in competition. I now join my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-14 04:44:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}