In 2023, you’d assume that the remainder of the world has accepted blended martial arts as a legit mainstream sport. However then you may have these like Hollywood A-Lister Liam Neeson, who nonetheless embodies a reasonably old-school mindset prefer it was nonetheless 1993.
Neeson just lately did a Q&A for Males’s Well being the place he addressed some fan questions, one in every of them about MMA. Right here was his response:
“UFC, I can’t stand. That, to me, is sort of a bar combat. I do know all of the practitioners would say, ‘No, you’re unsuitable! The months of coaching we do…’ Why don’t you simply seize a beer bottle and hit the opposite man over the pinnacle? That’s the subsequent stage from UFC. I hate it.”
He additionally had the identical unflattering phrases for fellow Irishman Conor McGregor.
“That little leprechaun, Conor McGregor… oh please. He provides Eire a foul identify. I do know he’s match, and I love him for that. However, I can’t take it.
“Subsequent time I are available in at Dublin Airport… ‘Neeson! I’ll f—ng present you!’”
The 70-year-old Neeson does have a boxing background. As he acknowledged on this 2014 interview, he started coaching on the age of 9 and “gained a number of titles” earlier than deciding to give up the game at 17 to focus extra on newbie drama.
As for McGregor, he’s slated for a return someday in 2023 in opposition to Michael Chandler, whom he is coaching against within the upcoming thirty first season of the Final Fighter. Nonetheless, he has yet to re-enroll himself within the USADA testing pool.
