"I wake up, I go to the gym, I go get some food, I go back to the gym, I go get some food and I go back to the gym, and then I come home. In this case, however, McGregor isn't just any fighter. It certainly doesn't hurt that Boston's population is 20.4 percent Irish, according to a census study released by Sarah Kliff of The Washington Post earlier this year.Īll of this sounds like the kind of distraction that would make most fighters buy into their own hype and maybe miss a step in training or lose focus on the actual task at hand, which is winning a fight on Saturday night. McGregor has become an overnight sensation in his home country of Ireland where it seems the entire population is getting behind him in support.įor a fighter with only one fight in the UFC, whose second fight still isn't on the main card, McGregor even had his own public workout in Boston this week for the media and fans that drew a huge crowd. He spent a weekend with White in Las Vegas to celebrate his birthday, where he video blogged the entire experience, including his ride around town in his boss's Ferrari. Since that night in Sweden when he debuted, McGregor's public life has changed dramatically. I don't have any kids, but when I have kids I want them to be secure for the rest of my life. I like wearing nice clothes and driving nice cars. Not for a better life because I felt like I already had the best life, but to just keep this life. "Now I have an account, I have two bank accounts, one at home and one I can use abroad. "My money just came in a little docket, you cue up in the post office and collect my money and you'd have it in your pocket and it'd be gone in two days. I never had a f-king bank account in my life," McGregor told MMA's Great Debate Radio prior to his fight this weekend in Boston. "To have some money or to have an account. It might be hard for the average person to comprehend what McGregor was going through prior to his UFC debut, but to put it in context, the 25-year old fighter didn't even know what it was to have a bank account before that day when Dana White handed him a post-fight bonus check for $60,000.
Just weeks prior to making his UFC debut, McGregor was living on welfare unable to afford much of anything outside of the bare essentials to survive. It was McGregor's charisma, personality and candidness that immediately landed him on the radar of every major MMA website and reporter who covered the sport.īeaming from ear to ear after his victory over Marcus Brimage, McGregor explained just how much his Knockout of the Night bonus meant to him.