{"id":157402,"date":"2025-09-20T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157402\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:31:06","slug":"you-were-never-running-for-president-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157402\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Were Never Running For President Of Ireland!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that\u2019s exactly what McGregor did earlier this week<\/a> in an attempt to save some face from his political flop. McGregor stated that it was \u201cnot an easy decision, but it is the right one at this moment in time.\u201d He came to this conclusion after some \u201ccareful reflection\u201d and consultation with his family.<\/p>\n

Sonnen, who seems to make a ton of content<\/a> by talking trash about McGregor<\/a>, had a few issues with McGregor\u2019s reasoning for removing himself from his dying presidential campaign. In fact, Sonnen claims that McGregor\u2019s political run was never even real in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re blowing c\u2014e, getting blown by s\u2014ers, running in and out of court dates for this very thing, oh, by the way, tying a dumbbell to your hoo-ha, it\u2019s a little hard to act like you\u2019re the guy that consults with family,\u201d said Sonnen earlier this week via YouTube<\/a> (h\/t Bloody Elbow).<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re very clearly the guy that does whatever he feels like. So, you know, this whole \u2018talk to my family routine\u2019\u2026incredibly absurd.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most absurd thing was thinking that he owed an explanation,\u201d he continued. \u201cAn explanation to who? The parliament never recognized you! There was no vote. There was no ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Conor McGregor has withdrawn his pending plans to be the president of Ireland.\u2019 Well, there\u2019s one problem with that, Conor \u2014 you were never running for president of Ireland! This wasn\u2019t real. It wasn\u2019t real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that\u2019s exactly what McGregor did earlier this week in an attempt to save some face from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-157402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}