The Break Talk,<\/a> St-Pierre explained how McGregor can find success again if he\u2019s willing to fully submit himself to the process.<\/p>\n\u201cI think if Conor can put himself back into the grind and be hungry, into that hell zone,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cHe has to see it in a way that like he\u2019s in the tunnel, but the light is after the fight. I have to go through that journey in order to see the light, but I\u2019m not going to put myself in the light until I\u2019m done with the fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he puts himself into that zone, we\u2019re going to have a hell of a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
McGregor, who turns 38 just days after UFC 329, has remained in the headlines since his most recent fight in July 2021, though not always for the right reasons. During his time on the sidelines, McGregor was found liable for sexual assault for an incident that occurred in Dublin in 2018 and made a failed attempt for a bid in the 2025 Irish presidential election. He also became a part-owner of BKFC and starred in a Road House remake alongside Jake Gyllenhaal.<\/p>\n
Now, it\u2019s on McGregor to prove that there are still remnants of the fighter who scraped and clawed his way to becoming the biggest star in MMA history.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, we talk about fighters that try to make a comeback sometimes, like Conor McGregor is going to try to make a comeback,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cI think if he wants to be successful, because it\u2019s hard once you made it\u2014you\u2019re a millionaire, you wake up in a nice bed, warm\u2014to go back into a discomfort zone, but you need to be willing to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to be willing to go through an army of guys that are waiting for you in the gym to kick your ass. You need to go through that in order to prepare yourself the best you can for what the fight will be. And sometimes if you\u2019re wealthy, you\u2019re the boss, you decide the conditions on which you will be put into. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his prime, McGregor was one of the most feared knockout artists in the UFC, scoring devastating knockouts over Jose Aldo, Eddie Alvarez, Donald Cerrone, and others. However, he has competed sporadically since 2016, winning just one of four fights during that stretch, that lone win being a knockout over Cerrone in January 2020.<\/p>\n
St-Pierre believes McGregor\u2019s comeback will only go as well as he allows it to.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe certainly has the skills to do it if he really wanted to,\u201d St-Pierre said. \u201cThe question is just that he needs to put himself into that position. Not be the boss, let your coach be the boss, because when you fight, it\u2019s a very unpleasant environment. You don\u2019t control nothing, there\u2019s a lot of stuff that happens. You try to control as much as you can control, there\u2019s a lot of stuff that you do not control, so you want to recreate that environment. But if you\u2019re trying to always control everything in your training the way you want and not let your coaches do that for you, to put you in hell, that\u2019s a problem because it\u2019s not reality. You need to prepare yourself for something that resembles, as much as you can, what you\u2019re going to be put into.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre is confident Conor McGregor can compete at a high level again as long as he\u2019s willing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-753385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753385","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=753385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}