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31 Jul, 2017

Referee McCarthy responds to Cormier’s post-UFC 214 apology

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In response to Cormier’s apology to Referee McCarthy, which he posted after his loss to Jon Jones….

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…McCarthy responds:

26 Nov, 2016

McGregor ‘controls the fight, hurts people’

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Referee McCarthy talks about McGregor’s performance in UFC 205.

Conor McGregor, whether you like him or don’t like him, the man can fight. He is so calm at what he’s doing. He controls the fight. Eddie probably did not fight the right fight for him against someone like Conor. I think he kinda got drawn into the whole thing of ‘I wanna beat you up’. I know what the guy has got. Everyone always wants to sit there and doubt someone [but] Conor McGregor has proved… the guy has got talent and he’s got power. His left hand, he hurts people all the time. They only guy who has stayed up with that left hand – but was multiple times knocked down – was Nate Diaz, and who knocks Nate Diaz out?

25 Aug, 2016

Video: White tells McGregor to go to hospital

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McGregor’s boxing coach releases video of McGregor from inside the SBG changing room, including McGregor’s walk out, his corner discussing the score before the official announcement, and McCarthy having an in-depth discussion with the featherweight champion moments before the fight. When White enters the dressing room after the fight and tells McGregor that ‘he’s gotta go to the hospital,’ McGregor replies:

I’ll have a shower, put on a suit, speak to the media and then I’ll go. I’m honestly grand.

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30 Apr, 2016

Referee: McGregor was guaranteed $10m

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McCarthy says McGregor was guaranteed $10m for UFC 200.

I talked to Lorenzo Fertitta at UFC 197 standing in the back and we started talking. And he said, ‘I never thought that when I had a guy guaranteed $10 million I would have a problem.’ If you don’t think $10 million is a lot of money to make for a fight, you are crazy. That is life changing money. That hand in poker, he lost. That $10 million might not be $10 million the next time he fights because it’s not UFC 200.