Conor Mcgregor Was On Welfare In 2013 Next Month He Ll Make 150 Million Fighting Floyd Mayweather

A recent Yahoo story on McGregor’s unlikely career trajectory states that only a few days before his starmaking debut UFC fight against Marcus Brimage in Stockholm in 2013, McGregor received a welfare check from the Irish government to the tune of $225. Before breaking into professional fighting in Irish mixed martial arts, McGregor worked as a plumber’s apprentice, and in 2015 he told The Guardian about how he went from plumbing to his current, more violent vocation: After quitting plumbing and devoting himself to mixed martial arts full time, McGregor lost two of his first three professional fights. But then, he was destined for a nine-fight winning streak, eventually snagging the UFC contract that would lead to his debut fight, as well as a $60,000 bonus for scoring the “Knockout of the Night.” Sixty grand isn’t much compared to the $100 million he’s getting to box Floyd Mayweather, but in a Yahoo interview given after his debut, it seemed like all the money in the world: Given that the match will be his boxing debut, McGregor is the easy underdog going into his Mayweather fight. But no matter how the fight goes, it must be nice for somebody who was receiving welfare checks not too long ago to be set to earn a $100 million payday.