Alright, so I kept hearing bits and pieces about this whole Conor McGregor CJ Watson thing floating around online. You know how it is, you see a name pop up with another name, and you’re like, ‘Wait, what’s the connection there?’ It bugged me for a bit, so I decided, okay, let me actually figure out what this was all about.
My first step was just jumping onto the search engines. Typed in ‘Conor McGregor CJ Watson’. Simple enough, right? Well, yeah, but it immediately threw up a ton of articles, mostly old news from around the time McGregor was fighting Mayweather. Lots of headlines screaming about trash talk and insults.
Digging Deeper
It wasn’t immediately clear why McGregor would even mention CJ Watson, who’s a basketball player. Seemed random. So, I had to backtrack. Most of the search results also mentioned Floyd Mayweather. Okay, connection found. I started looking specifically into the Mayweather and CJ Watson link.
That led me down another path. Found out the connection was through Mayweather’s ex-girlfriend. Apparently, there was some history there involving Watson and Mayweather’s personal life, some pretty serious stuff actually related to domestic issues Mayweather had. It was messy.
Once I got that piece of the puzzle, I went back to the McGregor stuff. Found clips and reports from the press conferences for the McGregor-Mayweather fight. And there it was. McGregor was using Watson’s name to get under Mayweather’s skin. Bringing up past drama, personal stuff, just pure trash talk fuel.
- Searched “Conor McGregor CJ Watson”.
- Saw Mayweather’s name kept appearing.
- Searched “Mayweather CJ Watson connection”.
- Found the link through Mayweather’s ex and past issues.
- Went back to McGregor context – found the press conference insults.
The Online Mess
Honestly, trying to piece this together was kind of annoying. You wade through so much junk online. Forum posts with people arguing back and forth, fan theories that make no sense, clickbait articles that barely tell you anything new. It took a while to sift through the noise and find the actual sequence of events.
You see the original comments, then you see how they get spun, re-reported, and debated endlessly. It’s like a game of telephone, but with way more anger and speculation.
What I Reckon Now
So, after spending more time than I probably should have on this, what did I figure out? Well, mainly that fighters, especially in big money fights, will grab onto anything personal to use against their opponent. Nothing seems off-limits when it comes to psychological warfare before a fight. It’s brutal.
And it also showed me just how easily old drama can be dug up and thrown back into the spotlight years later, especially online. This whole CJ Watson angle was related to stuff that happened way before McGregor even brought it up. Just sits there, waiting to be used.
It was an interesting little dive into how that world works, I guess. Mostly reminded me how much time you can lose just trying to untangle internet gossip. A bit of a rabbit hole, that one.
