10 Things You Didn’t Know about Conor McGregor

 

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor (previously at Neatorama) is the current UFC featherweight champion, after defeating the #1 pound-for-pound UFC champion José Aldo in just 13 seconds. McGregor instantly became the talk of the fight world, and is poised to be the next superstar. Maybe you should learn a little about the man.

10. He held two different belts in the same year

Before Conor signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2013, he was fighting in the Cage Warriors Fighting Championship. Now typically most fighters stay within one weight division, but most fighters are not Conor McGregor. At CWFC 47, Conor defeated opponent Dave Hill and won the featherweight belt. Then in his next fight he gained weight, and secured the CWFC lightweight belt. So in one year, Conor held two belts for two different weight divisions.

3. He was on welfare before entering the UFC

Conor’s life wasn’t always filled with sold-out fights or driving in fast cars. According to McGregor himself, he was actually collecting welfare checks from Ireland before he made his UFC debut. He secured his first UFC win in Sweden against Marcus Brimage, and after the fight he told reporters: “I didn’t have money before this, you know. Like I said, I was collecting 180 Euros a week off the social welfare and here I am and I’ve got 60 G’s bonus and my own pay”.

Taken together, those things show that fighting for the Cage Warriors doesn’t pay well. But there’s a lot more you can learn about Conor McGregor in a list at Worthly. 


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Also add Harlan Ellison -- multi-award-winning American fantasist, author of "'Repent Harlequin! Said The Tick Tock Man" and "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" -- who, when younger, liked to ocassionally write while starkers. One instance of such behavior --writing "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" while sitting naked in a Las Vegas Hotel room -- resulted in his contracting pneumonia as a result! He's still around, still writing, and was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature.
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You didn't include maybe the most famous nude writer...Jean-Paul Marat, journalist, propagandist, etc. of the French Revolution. He had Very Itchy Skin which he thought he had contracted while hiding out in the sewers of Paris (though some modern day people think he might have suffered from celiac disease) and the only place he could be comfortable was sitting in the bathtub. Therefore, he did mostof his writing while in the bath, and he was murdered in that state by Charlotte Corday, as immortalized in a painting by David.
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Don't forget historian Forrest McDonald. Booknotes Interview:

LAMB: If we could see you in your environment writing this book, what would we see?

McDONALD: You'd see me writing in the nude most of the time.

LAMB: In the nude?

McDONALD: Yes. We live in total isolation out in the country. They don't even read the electric meter because the electric man can't find it. We have to read our own meter. We've got wonderful isolation, and it's warm most of the year in Alabama and why wear clothes? I mean, they're just a bother. You'd see me sitting on the porch. We have a house that's mainly glass and otherwise screen and sitting out on the porch with a big 8-and-a-half-by-14 yellow tablet and writing. I write it out by hand. My wife, who is a very fine harpsichordist and has become a fantastic typist, then transcribes. I do a lot of editing before I turn it over to her, and then she edits with her fingers as she goes along. So we're really at a third or fourth draft by the time we get a first typed draft. We never use word processors, and then we'll let it sit and edit it some more. I'll keep on writing.
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