Conor McGregor: Notorious - Doco showing the more human side of the man
I've not really ever considered myself a fan of Conor McGregor. The arrogance that he has displayed over the years on his rise to being the number one paid MMA fighter (by far) was one that kind of ground at my nerves to the point where I reveled in his defeats.
That being said, this new-to-Netflix (but released in 2017) documentary called Notorious is a winner and shows what Conor had to go through in order to rise to the level that he has achieved.
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While watching the opening credits I noticed that McGregor is actually the producer of this documentary so I was thinking it would only focus on his successes. If you assume like I do, you would also be wrong and aside from one specific incident where they kind of glance over the fact that many people, including Dana White, don't believe that Conor actually won the second fight against Diaz, the portrayal is actually very fair.
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The show takes us back to a humble, not-yet-covered-in-tattoos Conor, who is struggling to make ends meet, sparring with friends in tiny gyms with no funding.
Director Gavin Fitzgerald must have had a tremendous amount of faith in Conor's ability to rise to and maintain his position because this footage consists of clips collected over 4 years that Fitzgerald spent following Conor all over the world. This began right around the time that McGregor suffered his first loss at the hands of Nate Diaz.
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I was kind of surprised that even with McGregor as the executive producer, they didn't just glance over this loss and try to sweep it under the rug, but instead spent a lot of time focusing on it, including showing some very rare footage of Conor being humble and admitting defeat - he makes no excuses.
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While I found this to be extremely entertaining and is also one of the few times in the past week that I have put my phone down and stared intently at the tv for 90 minutes, I will admit that I am a UFC junkie. For die-hard fans like me, this will be a great watch. However, I seriously doubt that it can entertain a wider audience.
For me Notorious showed a more modest side of the man and since his crazy antics in the past have actually turned me off to the dude, it was nice to see a more human side as far as his interactions with other fighters, particularly in his younger years, carried out.
Basically, I loved it, But I also realize that if you don't like UFC or fighting sports, this documentary is not going to change that.
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oooh, forgot this existed. Time to fire up the Netflix
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My! I believe he knows that people will feel that the documentary will be one sided hence he proved people wrong, as a man I like Connor. The documentary is of course something people would look at and Understanding some intricate part of him, he's been a loser and that's why he's a winner today
I forgot about this film. Thank you!
I will be watching this as I love the behind the scenes sort of stuff that shows the true person and what they have to do to make it.
Woohoo. It's on Netflix, I am gonna watch it! I'm a big fan of the man, I know as you say he has a lot of negative qualities but I still think he is smashing
Kind of reminds me a bit of Miley Cyrus. Okay stay with me here. She had her crazy wild times where everyone got that opinion of her that she is a just a crazy twerker. That was all after the Hannah Montana stuff. More recently she has calmed down quite a bit and has taken up some social and charity work and has turned her reputation around quite a bit. I think being able to see that side of people like Connor is really valuable for us as fans or not fans etc. That's what I think anyway. I might have to check this one out.
yeah, Conor doesn't really feature any of his really bad antics like when he was attacking buses with hand trucks and punching old men in bars but to be fair when this was made he hadn't yet done those things.
He's still got a mouth on him, but I don't think he actually needs to do that stuff anymore for attention.
I think that last part is the biggest factor in his change. Conor no longer needs to act a fool for attention to increase his purse amounts. He's now hitting the point where he is the man and his name alone will bring the $$$. I expect we'll continue to see a more statesman version of McGregor when it comes to his out of the octagon personality.
I don't usually sit down for a lot of these but after you got me to watch Killer Inside I might give this a run too. I'm not a huge McGregor fan but more so a fan of his greatness so always exciting to watch his fights. This might be good background noise for the day.
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This is a great post and interesting topic, I think it's always good to see the reality of what people go through in order to reach success and this story of Conner McGregor is a classic example.
Very interesting sir gooddream. I'm not a huge fan mostly just because I haven't followed the UFC but I'm fascinated by it. Is it like pro boxing where they make millions per fight?