McGregor Forever... A Netflix original.
So we're doing documentaries about mediocre athletes and wasted talent now?
Connor McGregor's record in the UFC is 22-6-0. Since 2016, he has lost four of seven MMA fights, plus a one-sided boxing exhibition against a retired 40-year old Floyd Mayweather. Sure he is the former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion, but he has never successfully defended a world title...not once.
Compare that to Jon Jones's 11 title defences, and Anderson Silva's 10, and Georges St. Pierre's nine. Even Tito Ortiz defended his title five times.
You might be able to get away with saying that McGregor is an incomparable self-promoter who changed MMA forever. But you'd be just as accurate if you called him a throbbing blowhard whose largely unfulfilled swagger contributed to significantly the UFC's shift away from a legitimate sport to sports entertainment.
McGregor is a three-ring circus in bicycle shorts. So I guess its only natural that Netflix would give him a television show.
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