Uh...Did Conor McGregor Just Retire?

Alright, so I don’t know what the fuck is going on. I was sound asleep, thrilled with how well the launch of my new podcast, ‘My Mom’s Basement’, went, just in an absolute state of bliss, and my phone starts blowing up. I have an R2-D2 text tone and it sounded like R2 was having a god damn malfunction. I wake up, knowing it has to be something catastrophic, and it was.

Apparently Conor McGregor has retired. Well, he probably hasn’t actually retired, but he’s saying he’s retired for some reason.

I say he’s not actually retired because that would make literally zero sense considering how hard he’s been training for a return and how hard he’s been pushing to return to the UFC in July, combined with the fact that he was on Jimmy Fallon tonight talking about how he COULD retire and be set for life, but doesn’t, because he’s an animal who just loves fighting. It’d make no god damn sense.

I also say he’s not retired because he’s done this before…

When negotiations with the UFC over media obligations leading into UFC 200 weren’t going his way, McGregor “retired” on Twitter completely randomly. He also had that weird wording and phrasing, of “Thanks for the cheese!”, which carries over into this tweet. Like what does that even mean? ‘…the sport formally known as “Mixed Martial Art”?’ Like, what are we even talking about? Maybe negotiations for that July return aren’t going great, or he’s really pushing for that stake in the company that they won’t give him.

April Fool’s Day is also right around the corner, so I’m just super super super skeptical of the whole thing.

REMAIN CALM, TEAM McGREGOR. BELIEVE IN ME HERE.

UPDATE: Dana White’s playing the game too. It’s negotiation bullshit. Believe me. There’s not a single person on all of MMA Twitter that is buying this for a second.