{"id":23684,"date":"2026-08-01T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=23684"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:27:06","slug":"conor-mcgregors-sad-ufc-329-comeback-not-watched-live-by-fellow-2-division-irish-mma-titleholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=23684","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor&#8217;s &#8220;sad&#8221; UFC 329 comeback not watched live by fellow 2 division Irish MMA titleholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending:<\/span><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border\"\/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border-2\"\/>Daniel Cormier doubts Dricus du Plessis gets next middleweight title shot due to history with Sean Strickland<\/p>\n<p>Conor McGregor\u2019s return at 2026\u2019s International Fight Week ended in an inauspicious fashion with a fellow two-division MMA champion from Ireland weighing in on the UFC 329 fallout. Will Fleury is the combatant in question, and Oktagon\u2019s heavyweight champion will be embarking on his first OKMMA light heavyweight title defense. This will transpire at Oktagon 92 on August 1st when Fleury clashes with ex-UFC vet Makhmud Muradov.<\/p>\n<p>Fleury has previously spoken about how the perception of MMA in Ireland has been at a low point for years, with McGregor\u2019s presence in the game casting this massive shadow over how people on the Emerald Isle see mixed martial arts as a whole. Offering up his thoughts on his combative compatriot\u2019s short-lived return bout from earlier in the month as McGregor had his rematch with Max Holloway, Fleury said [via <em>Bowks Talking Bouts<\/em>],<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, look, it\u2019s kind of sad the way the whole thing went for everybody involved. I think; look like to most Irish people, Conor is MMA. Most Irish people aren\u2019t very supportive of that at the moment and I can understand why. So it\u2019s a weird place to be, being an Irish fighter right now. You obviously want to support other Irish fighters, but when you\u2019re aware of some of the things that are going on around it, it\u2019s just like this isn\u2019t martial arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Conor McGregor\u2019s performance was \u201cjust sad\u201d, per Fleury: \u201cThis isn\u2019t what martial arts should be about\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Further expounding upon how he thinks Conor McGregor has strayed from those core tenets of martial arts representation, Fleury continued [via <em>Bowks Talking Bouts<\/em>],<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t what martial arts should be about. So, I\u2019m in a position where I don\u2019t want to see anyone fail, but like it was; I didn\u2019t stay up to watch the fight. I got up the next morning and just saw the result online. It was just like, oh, okay, that\u2019s a bit sad. You know, I would still like to have seen a good fight. I still would have liked to have seen a decent performance from everybody involved, but whatever. It\u2019s just the whole thing is just sad to me, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregors-sad-ufc-329-comeback-not-watched-live-by-fellow-2-division-irish-mma-titleholder\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=conor-mcgregors-sad-ufc-329-comeback-not-watched-live-by-fellow-2-division-irish-mma-titleholder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:Daniel Cormier doubts Dricus du Plessis gets next middleweight title shot due to history with Sean Strickland Conor McGregor\u2019s return at 2026\u2019s International Fight Week ended in an inauspicious fashion with a fellow two-division MMA champion from Ireland weighing in on the UFC 329 fallout. Will Fleury is the combatant in question, and Oktagon\u2019s heavyweight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[581,252,309,985,2130,442,4129,157,1014,10497,42,4404],"class_list":["post-23684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-comeback","tag-conor","tag-division","tag-fellow","tag-irish","tag-live","tag-mcgregors","tag-mma","tag-sad","tag-titleholder","tag-ufc","tag-watched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}