
Maybe he was being serious after all.
Conor McGregor’s tweet about “retiring young” on Tuesday evening was greeted with a fair degree of scepticism from most quarters, but it would appear as if it might not be so far-fetched after all.
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/722492455732584448
Shortly after McGregor posted his own message on Twitter, it was followed by this post from his coach, John Kavanagh…
https://twitter.com/John_Kavanagh/status/722515043376607234
… while Nate Diaz, who defeated McGregor in March and was due to take him on again in Las Vegas in July, also got in on the act…
https://twitter.com/NateDiaz209/status/722514064576917505
Respected MMA journalist Ariel Helwani also suggested that McGregor was not joking about retiring and said that his reasons for doing so are unclear.
https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/722516118267633665
Is this really the end?