Conor McGregor: Notorious

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Let's go school this motherf***er.

[man] Take a look around me

Takin' pages from a magazine

Been lookin' for the answers

Ever since we were 17

You know the truth

Can be a weapon

To fight this world

Of ill intentions

A new answer To

the same question

How many times will you

Learn the same lesson?

'Cause we're

gonna be Legends

Gonna get their attention

What we're doin'

here Ain't just scary

It's about to be legendary

[man] It's either all or nothing, the game.

I felt I had enough talent

that it was time to pack up me job and

chase me dream, and that's what I'm doing.

I'm the f***in' future.

[man] My dream is to be

world champion in the UFC,

have more money than

I know what to do with,

and have a great life for

my kids and my grandkids.

My dream is to be number one.

It's about to be legendary

[song ends]

[crowd chanting] Diaz! Diaz!

[crowd roaring]

[announcer] Oh! Nate Diaz is going off!

Diaz looking to finish

it right here, right now!

Final seconds of the round.

- Just trying to survive.

- Conor!

[air horn blares]

[announcer] Huge round for Nate Diaz.

These are those last few

rounds, and they're over.

You're winning the clinch every time.

Just recover. Loads of time.

Rinse and spit.

This is it now. Championship rounds.

[no audible dialogue]

[man] I mean, I was a little

chimp. I was only a kid.

Had a chip on my shoulder.

Little chimp runnin' around,

thought I owned the place.

But I kept showing up and

then became the gorilla.

[announcer] This is a

dogfight, ladies and gentlemen.

A real dogfight.

[Conor] What's everyone

else doing Saturday?

Probably out drinking

and getting up to no good.

I'm here waiting on a...

90-plus kilo,

big rugby head.

You know what I mean?

To come and basically have a scrap with.

Wanna start making some money. Can't

even afford a head guard at the moment.

- [laughing]

- Was gonna ask you, do you have a spare one?

[both laughing]

- Have you not? [laughs]

- I don't have one, no.

He's a European welterweight champ.

UFC-ready. You know what I mean?

We can't even buy ourself f***ing gear.

[Conor] For our guys coming up, we don't

have sports council paying for sh*t.

We show up here and beat

the sh*t out of each other

and hope that we beat the sh*t out of each

other enough that we become really good

and get that shout for the UFC.

Get there and start making the big money.

The aim for everyone is to get

to the UFC, the premier promotion.

We don't give a f*** about no other sh*t.

You're either with the

UFC or you're with nothin'.

It could happen any day. It's literally...

"We have a fight in nine

weeks. Do you want it?"

You're f***in' right I want it.

So it could happen like that.

[timer beeping]

- [grunts]

- [muttering]

[grunts]

[Conor laughing]

[kissing sounds]

How you doin', me boy? Huh?

The Irish Debt Bureau.

Come to join the queue.

Tell the Debt Bureau to

join the f***ing queue.

[man] Do you organize Conor's life a bit?

Pretty much. [laughs]

Pretty much.

This beard's getting a bit heavy, is it?

- I trimmed it just yesterday. Just give it a little...

- I know.

- How'd you know?

- 'Cause I seen all the hair in the sink.

[both laughing]

[coughing]

[woman] They were here first,

and then they moved out.

Wasn't long before they were back, when

they realized they had to pay bills.

"Any chance we can come

back for just a month?"

And so three years on,

they're still here. [laughs]

- Are you hungry?

- Starvin'.

Oh, this looks lovely.

[blows landing]

[grunting]

[Conor] Most young men, why they got into

martial arts was to defend themselves.

I started off really into football.

That was what my first dreams were,

you know, being a football player.

How good you were at playing football

and how good you were at fighting.

They were the two things where I grew up.

And then maybe as I'd start

going outside my little estate

and all the conflicts that happened,

I had to think to meself, "I need to

be able to defend myself now as well."

Not to get back at anyone.

Just to be like, "This guy knows

where he's at. Leave him alone."

That's it.

I don't know what I'm

doing other than that.

Now I'm obsessed.

Oh, yeah.

- [shouting]

- [man] Yes. Yes.

Whoo!

[men chattering]

F*** me, that's brilliant.

- Serious rounds.

- [panting]

- We went at it from round one.

- Yeah, serious rounds.

It's 80 percent humidity

and about 30 degrees.

[Conor] No one goes easy

here. Everyone wants to win.

From round one to round, f***in', the end,

there's people trying to beat you up.

Saturday morning, get up and go 15 rounds.

Sunday, some weights and a cardio workout.

Monday morning, jujitsu, about 10 rounds.

Monday night, about eight rounds, I'd say.

Tuesday morning, here I am.

Nine rounds, going at it.

Not nine rounds pitty-pat.

Nine rounds, you're trying to win

every f***in' minute of that round.

[man] That's it. Up

above. Get your shot up.

[shouting]

- Yeah.

- F***in' hell.

[Conor] This isn't for three

weeks or for eight weeks.

- This is for life.

- [panting]

I just get fidgety.

That's why I need to train. If

I don't train, I'm not meself.

It's like a sense of security or something.

It really messes with me head

if I don't do some training.

Like I said, I'm broke

still. Wanna make some money.

Just keep going. Get it in.

This is my life. Welcome.

- [applause]

- [man] Come on, Conor!

[ring announcer] Introducing his

opponent, representing Antrim MMM.

[bell rings]

- [shouting]

- [man] Come on, Ciaran!

[Conor] He's very forceful, yeah? 2007.

The ringside. It was

next door to the stadium.

Look. It was packed as well.

[crowd cheering]

[Conor] I'd literally only

been training a week in MMA.

- I didn't have a pair of shorts.

- [Dee laughs]

Whoa.

- [Conor] Oh.

- [Dee laughs]

S... Watch, watch, watch.

Sit down!

Ooh.

I caught him with some heavy shots.

[Conor] Ooh.

Yeah! Yeah!

There I was dancing, "Right, f*** this.

This is what I'm gonna do

for the rest of my time."

And when I went back

to the gym the next day,

John pulled me into a

room, brought me upstairs.

There was a little office

upstairs, and he was like,

"You won't be fighting again

if you ever go on like that."

The guy's hurt, and I'm running around

screaming, "Yeah!" and bouncing around.

- "We don't go on like that."

- [Dee] You never really listened to that advice then, did you?

- [laughing]

- [laughing]

- I took it on board for one fight.

- [laughing]

[chattering]

Let's go, Conor.

Go, Conor. It's all you.

[Conor] This is the way to go. Build

up your reputation outside of the UFC.

Get big finishes, talk the talk.

Win titles in all weight divisions.

Then get your call-up.

When the call-up comes, get in there

and prove everyone that you're there.

[cheering]

It's no surprise. Put

me in the f***ing ring.

People could throw bricks at me

and call me every name under the sun,

I'd still walk out thinking I'm

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