Joe Rogan theorizes why Conor McGregor is trying to clean up his act YouTube: PowerfulJRE \/ Wikimedia CommonsIn an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan and guest, Frankie Edgar, spoke about some of the recent events in MMA and how the sport\u2019s favorite Irishman, Conor McGregor, is trying to clean up his image. McGregor has always been a rowdy, loud, funny and vicious competitor \u2014 a character that many have come to love or hate due to his rambunctious nature\u2026 But Rogan and Edgar think we may be starting to see a new side to the biggest name in the UFC. The build-up to McGregor\u2019s January 2020 fight against Donald \u2018Cowboy\u2019 Cerrone was not quite as crazy or intense as for other fights he\u2019s had in the past, and Rogan and Edgar have theorized why they think this is. Turning the conversation on to the Irish superstar, Edgar says: \u201cHe\u2019s made a little 180-flip on his personality. He\u2019s still funny, he\u2019s still mouthy, but it seems like he\u2019s trying to clean his image up.\u201d Rogan presses it, asking if he thinks it\u2019s because Cowboy was his opponent, which Edgar says could be the reason, as Cowboy is easy to get along with, but suggests that there\u2019s more to it than meets the eye. \u201cMaybe it was just because of Khabib and, you know, hitting the old guy,\u201d Edgar explains, referencing an altercation McGregor had with an older man in a Dublin pub in April 2019. Rogan backs him up, agreeing that \u201clawsuits\u201d could be the issue McGregor is laying a little lower than before. They also mentioned that he could be toning down his act a bit because of his Proper Twelve whiskey brand, potentially realizing that maintaining a good image is paramount to his success outside of the octagon. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to think, Proper Twelve is an enormous amount of money for him,\u201d Rogan says. \u201cHe\u2019s making sh*t tons of money. I was in Vegas and his billboards were everywhere.\u201d Making a final point, Rogan also says that he doesn\u2019t think McGregor \u201cneeded psychological warfare\u201d with Cowboy like he did with recent opponents, as he already had such a huge advantage over the Colorado-born fighter. Rogan\u2019s podcast often brings in a strange assortment of guests and conversational topics, so it\u2019s nice to see him discussing an industry that he is so heavily involved in and where his roots stemmed from. Whether his theory that McGregor is cleaning up his act turns out to be true remains to be seen, but he\u2019s definitely right in that the usually loud-mouthed fighter has strayed from the limelight a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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