{"id":33347,"date":"2021-08-02T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=33347"},"modified":"2021-08-02T07:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:00:59","slug":"mcgregor-signs-on-for-charity-wheelchair-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=33347","title":{"rendered":"McGregor Signs On For Charity Wheelchair Boxing Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After breaking his leg badly in his fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264, Conor McGregor won\u2019t be stepping back into the cage any time soon. But that won\u2019t stop him from rolling into a ring for a charity wheelchair boxing match.<\/p>\n<p>No, this isn\u2019t a joke: McGregor will participate in a wheelchair boxing match on September 11th in Galway, Ireland against comedian Al Foran, whose Conor McGregor impressions have racked up tens of thousands of views over the years. All proceeds from the \u2018fight\u2019 will go to the Irish Wheelchair Association.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drum roll ladies and gentlemen   <\/p>\n<p>The co-main event: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheNotoriousMMA<\/a> v <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImpressionistAL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImpressionistAL<\/a> aka The Notorious v The Notorious Impressionist all in aid of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishWheelchair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IrishWheelchair<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please donate here if you can: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lDMJxs1MvE\">https:\/\/t.co\/lDMJxs1MvE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madebyGoodie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@madebyGoodie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kqFIXApdzu\">pic.twitter.com\/kqFIXApdzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sir Stevo Timothy (@SirStevoTimothy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SirStevoTimothy\/status\/1421123087152697348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fight was announced by Stevo Timothy, a wheelchair-bound comedian who is spearheading the project. He\u2019ll face Olympic boxer Paddy Barnes in the main event with McGregor accepting his first co-main in years. <\/p>\n<p>Timothy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/paddy-barnes-v-stevo-timothy-boxing-spectacular?member=10690625&amp;sharetype=teams&amp;utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&amp;utm_medium=copy_link&amp;utm_source=customer\">included a link to a GoFundMe for donations,<\/a> which have already eclipsed \u20ac30,000 ($35,500). \u20ac10,000 of that was a donation directly from McGregor, proving that he\u2019s still got some good in him beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/7\/27\/22595891\/ufc-conor-mcgregor-suggests-covid-good-because-it-killed-khabibs-evil-father-mma\">the terrible smacktalk he\u2019s been engaged in<\/a> lately.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maybe he should just let Al Foran do the talking for both of them on this one. It\u2019s been noted that McGregor seemed like a shadow of his typical promotional self coming into the third Poirier fight. Al can reach back and channel golden age Conor, which I think we can all agree is much better than what we\u2019ve witnessed over the past six months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC After breaking his leg badly in his fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264, Conor McGregor won\u2019t be stepping back into the cage any time soon. But that won\u2019t stop him from rolling into a ring for a charity wheelchair boxing match. No, this isn\u2019t a joke: McGregor will participate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}