ever-so-elegantly said, “Conor McGregor, you’ve taken everything I’ve worked for, motherfucker. You know what’s the real fight, what’s the real money fight? It’s me,” in his live-airing postfight interview with Joe Rogan on Fox, that idea was floating around in his mind long before he traded the first punch with Johnson. Johnson was the hurdle for those words, and those words were worth millions of dollars. A smart fighter is always thinking three steps ahead.
