Quote: The Illusion Conor McGregor Created Is About To Burst

Irish UFC flyweight prospect Neil ‘Two Tap’ Seery has been around the game for a while now, and here’s his take on the McGregor situation. Seery believes that although McGregor has been good for his country’s future hopes, most of it was an illusion:

“To be perfectly honest, it was only a matter of time before the bubble burst,” Seery told MMAjunkie. “I said it to a couple of people last year that when a country is on a high – you’ve got this many athletes in the UFC and everybody looking in at it – the bubble will burst. Obviously that’s the case at the minute.

“We’ve only got four fighters left in the UFC at the minute: Conor, myself, ‘Ais’ (Aisling Daly) and Joseph Duffy. It’s like everything else – the Irish will have it good for a while, tough for a while, and then it’ll come good again. And I believe it will.”

“The death of Joao Carvalho a couple of weeks ago puts a bad taste in people’s mouths with MMA in Ireland,” Seery said. “You’d be lying to say it doesn’t frighten you. Stuff like this always frightens you, but my outlook is that it was a freak accident, and it just so happened to be in Ireland. It was destined to happen around the world, and it will be destined to happen again.

“But, does it stay in your mind before you go out? Of course it does. We’ve all got families and young kids, and nobody wants to die in there, but it does happen.”

“You’ve got Norman Parke – he’s without a contract, without a job,” Seery said.

“With Paul Redmond (Team Ryano stablemate), you’ve got the exact same thing. He gave up a good job to go and pursue a career with the UFC, and two fights later, he was out the door.”

It’s a lesson, he said, many UFC newcomers and hopefuls are slow to learn.

“People are fooled when they walk through that door because they think they’ve got job security – but you’ve got nothing,” he said. “You’ve got a piece of paper that says you’ve got a four-fight contract, but that doesn’t mean to say you’re going to get four fights and make a million dollars.”

“To me, it’s like every other good ride. It was always destined to come to an end, whether it’s a good end or a bad end. That’s why I’ve always told people to put something in place and try to do something else. Fighting is Plan B, so you should already have Plan A tucked away.

“People seem to be really fooled by this profession at the minute, and there’s not many people that are going to succeed in what Conor is doing. You can hear it in the voice of every young fighter thinking they’re going to be the next Conor McGregor. It’s an illusion, and I’m telling you that you’re not going to be the next Conor McGregor because he’s a one in a million.”