Notorious: The Life and Fights of Conor Mcgregor

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Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The result is a bit like listening to a boxing match on the radio – you just end up thinking this would be so much better if I could see what was going on. This book contained some impressively intelligent, detailed fight writing (though it seldom captured the actual excitement of the fights IMO), but overall it could have been at least fifty pages shorter if it had lived up to its title by sticking to McGregor’s life and fights. He’s got a keen insight into the fight game and a knack of knowing exactly why, on a technical level, one fighter just beat another. By his teens McGregor was an avid boxer, while Tom Egan was involved in karate and kickboxing, but neither was a purist.

Finally, he moved into a unit in Rathcoole, and it was there that Straight Blast Gym Ireland's rise to notoriety on the world stage would begin in earnest.Sullivan of legend, the first heavyweight champion of the world and the child of Irish parents, Conor McGregor has always spun a great yarn.

He was a brown belt at the time, and seeing him in action reiterated everything I had already thought about jiu-jitsu.Jack Slack is extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of the fight game and is able to provide a detailed analysis which is accessible even to the casual fight fan, who will come away with a greater appreciation for the intricacies of the sport. We think the world needs something as positive as Conor McGregor’s book’ said Conor Nagle, Commissioning Editor for Gill Books, who acquired the book for an undisclosed sum. In an interview with the Irish Independent, in 2015, he mused on how some people get 'a little weird', with a tribe-like mentality towards their team. To hear McGregor tell it, one lad threw a punch and the young Dubliner slipped it, shuffled his feet and exclaimed 'Muhammad Ali!