{"id":1325,"date":"2016-05-28T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:03:53","slug":"comeback-king-conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather-mma-trash-talking-ufc-mix-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"What Indians Can Learn from Comeback King Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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t least once in your life, you will probably think of a witty comeback instantly, that will make everyone in the room laugh out loud, and make you new friends. Most other times though, you\u2019ll probably end up standing there, mouth gaping, wishing you had something caustic and cutting to say to the person who just insulted you. Obviously, the perfect reply will occur to you hours later and texting it to the insulter will clearly not have the same effect — not for the insult, not for your ego. <\/span>\n\nThe French have the perfect phrase to describe this situation: L\u2019esprit de l\u2019escalier or \u201cstaircase wit\u201d. If you are one of those people who finds themselves in the latter situation often, you could take a few tips from the motormouth that is Conor McGregor. All the way in the lead up to yesterday\u2019s big fight with champion boxer Floyd Mayweather, and indeed back in his own UFC career, the Irishman has made a name for being especially crass.<\/span>\n\nThis backfired pretty heavily in some ways over the weekend. All of McGregor\u2019s last few months spent <\/span>talking shit <\/span><\/a>about Mayweather and his family, culminated right there with him getting slapped around like he was one of <\/span>Mayweather\u2019s ex-girlfriends<\/span><\/a>. But that was not a big deal, the match ended in a technical knock-out so he wasn\u2019t too humiliated. Meanwhile, the UFC fighter made history by being the most successful 0-1 boxer in the world, considering his payout was more than the GDP of a few countries. But that isn\u2019t the point. <\/span>\n\nThe point is that most of us could\u2019ve used a guy like Conor McGregor around us growing up, considering how naturally shitty most Indians are with our comebacks and trash talk. Conor McGregor\u2019s Irish wit allows for him to instantly be the most popular guy in the room. Meanwhile, in school I once heard a guy respond to, \u201cYour face is a toilet\u201d, with \u201cNo, it is actually my face.\u201d As I was saying earlier, thinking of a good comeback at the opportune moment is like finding a wild animal in the bathroom. For us Indians, the animal might as well be a unicorn. <\/span>\n\n

Floyd \u201cMoney\u201d Mayweather may be a boxing veteran but he is very far from being a trash-talk legend, often failing in the face of McGregor\u2019s brilliant insults in the the build-up to the fight.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nTrash talk, insult comedy, and comebacks have always been virtues appreciated in a young man growing up where I have. When we were in school, the most charismatic guys always got the most laughs, even if their comebacks involved just yelling, \u201cBlah, blah, blah\u201d back at the person. Sometimes all it took \u00a0for a successful comeback was repeating the insult that was just hurled at you, but much louder. Like countering, \u201cYou smell like my dog\u2019s mouth\u201d with, \u201cNo, YOU smell like my dog\u2019s MOUTH!!!\u201d <\/span>\n\nNow I\u2019m much older, but the comeback game sadly hasn\u2019t improved. It might have been funny earlier, but it no longer makes sense to see two grown men baby-talking over each other at a traffic signal. \u201cTalk to the hand\u201d became a thing for a short while in college, but everyone knows that\u2019s weaker than the canteen tea. Still, it is marginally better than witnessing that highly irritating guy who makes a grand ceremony of his comebacks. He will stall exaggeratedly, so everyone\u2019s attention is turned to him, only to mumble something like, \u201cYour mom!\u201d, the lamest, most ineffective comeback in the history of comebacks. You can still find this type doing the 8 pm set every time there\u2019s an open mic. McGregor will make this guy slit his wrists. <\/span>\n\nThat\u2019s because McGregor is an absolute living legend of trash talk, the kind who can get away with <\/span>saying<\/span><\/a>: <\/span>\u201cA lot of media are saying I\u2019m racist against black people. That\u2019s absolutely f… ridiculous. Do they not know I\u2019m half-black? Yeeeeeah. I\u2019m half-black from the belly button down.\u201d<\/span>\n\nCan you really argue with that? <\/span>\n\n\"\"\n

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But McGregor\u2019s great talent might have also been his greatest flaw. Like many other trash-talk legends before him, he overestimated his own talent.<\/p>\n

Image Credit\/ David Becker, Stringer<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\nFloyd \u201cMoney\u201d Mayweather may be a boxing veteran but he is very far from being a trash-talk legend, often failing in the face of McGregor\u2019s brilliant insults in the the build-up to the fight. McGregor danced in his face, stole a belt in front of him, called him an aged man, and made an entire crowd chant \u201c<\/span>Fuck Mayweather<\/span><\/a>\u201d. All the boxer could come back with was <\/span>lines like<\/span><\/a>: <\/span>\u201cI\u2019m the IRS and I\u2019m gonna tax your ass\u201d and \u201cGod don\u2019t make mistakes and God only made one thing perfect. And that\u2019s my boxing record.\u201d<\/span> Clearly, one is better than the other. <\/span>\n\nBut McGregor\u2019s great talent might have also been his greatest flaw. Like many other trash-talk legends before him, he overestimated his own talent. He said he would knock Mayweather out in six rounds, he didn\u2019t even come close. He called Mayweather an old man, but looked like an octogenarian himself when he was throwing punches. McGregor even tried to trash talk Mayweather during the fight, which I\u2019m sure didn\u2019t help much. The McGregors of the world may win a few hearts, but the Mayweathers of the world will always knock them out. <\/span>\n\nThat still doesn\u2019t solve our original problem. Us Indians, who think \u201cTeri ma ki,\u201d is a good comeback to pretty much anything. In that respect, we are neither McGregors nor Mayweathers.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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