Add Jorge Masvidal to the list of MMA insiders doubting Conor McGregor is actually going to show up on the America250 White House UFC card.
“Why would they even consider having Conor McGregor on the White House card?” Masvidal asked in an interview with BetIdeas. “He’s been saying he’s going to fight for four years now. I feel like at this point they know Conor’s going to pull out, and they’re just getting everyone to buy into the hype before he pulls out three weeks before.”
“I don’t see Conor getting in and doing anything,” Masvidal continued. “He’s having a good time doing cocaine, and it’s not that fun to go to the gym and put in the work, to get your ass kicked day in and day out, to run those miles, swim those laps, and have your coaches telling you what time to wake up. He doesn’t want that lifestyle. He’d rather fight at bars.”
“The guy had a great career, but this bulls—t about him coming back? I’ve been hearing this idiot say that for four or five years and then cancel. Just shut the f—k up. Hell no, the card does not need him.”
That being said, Masvidal is still hoping the UFC will bring him back into the fold and place him on the card.
“This White House thing came about and that lit a f—king fire like never before,” he said. “I’ve just been training twice a day, every day, eating right, trying to go to sleep right, and I don’t have a date, I don’t have nothing. The fight’s far away. So I’m just thinking: this is the right thing to get me in there, to get me riled up, so I’m talking to the UFC, my management’s talking to them, to maybe do something.”
“This White House card, that’s all I wanna do. I don’t care about anything else. I gotta talk to my boy Donald Trump.”