McGregor on UFC Beef, Decapitating Mayweather With One Shot

New York, N.Y.––“I feel like you’re in charge of your own situation. When you start blaming others for your situation, like I see all these people screaming at these politicians,” Conor McGregor tells GQ Styles’ Zach Baron about his views on protests surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency.

McGregor was in New York to fight Eddie Alvarez right after the election and the streets were full of anti-Trump protestors: “And I was like, ‘It’s the wrong mind-set!’” McGregor feels pretty similarly about his fellow UFC fighters trying to organize a union: “I saw this union thing they tried to do––they reminded me of the people that march about the politicians. It’s you gotta do it. You’re in control of yourself…. People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it… Like all these fighters: ‘This union is gonna save us!’ What do you mean, it’s gonna save you, exactly? …I just think it’s a crazy thing to spend energy on… standing on a f***ing picket…I don’t know.” Conor McGregor covers the Spring 2017 issue of GQ Style.

These days, McGregor is learning there’s a world outside of fighting––that there are other ways to make money. Though, contrary to popular belief, he has not been cast on Game of Thrones. “I haven’t even spoke to nobody about Game of Thrones! So I don’t know what the f*** is going on,” he says. Instead, McGregor has set his sights on more entrepreneurial ways to make extra money: ownership and equity. A stake in the UFC, perhaps.

When asked if there’s something he wants out of UFC that he doesn’t already have, McGregor is straight and to the point. “Four point two billion dollars [what the UFC reportedly sold for this summer],” he says. “I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‘This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.’ And then we can talk.” For now, he envisions this as a “fatter check,” but “potentially, down the road, an equity, interest or something. I’m just letting them know I want something else.”

In his off time, McGregor has been enjoying some rest and relaxation in California. “This is a $2 million trip for me. One week, 2 million. I’m finished,” he says. “Maybe I’ll search for Khloé [Kardashian’s] big fat ass––she’s been floating around Malibu. I don’t give a f*** about them [the Kardashians]. I just like to see them in the flesh… just see what the big fat asses on them look like.” Although, McGregor makes it clear that he doesn’t simply wish to admire the sisters from a distance: “Admire? Never. What’s the saying? Never put the p*ssy on a pedestal, my friend. I just want to see it. I want to see them.”

McGregor recently applied to receive a California boxing license––confirming the report that he is interested in taking on Floyd Mayweather.

“I’m pursuing that and no one can stop me from pursuing that,” he says. Regardless of Mayweather’s experience, McGregor doesn’t seem worried. “… [A]ge waits for no man. He’s 40 years of age. He’s a little…he’s got a little head on him,” he says. “Honestly, my fist is bigger than his head. I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts. If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers. You understand that? If I crack that little head of his, it’s gonna go clean off his shoulder and up into the bleachers.”

The Spring 2017 issue of GQ Style will be available on newsstands in New York and L.A on February 21 and nationwide on February 28.