You may not be surprised to learn that George Hook has a typically fusty opinion of the whole MMA business, believing it to be something no civilised society could tolerate.
Ewan MacKenna is a bit less moralistic about the whole thing but he does like seeing a bandwagon lying sideways in a ditch.
On the Right Hook today, he hungrily laid into McGregor, describing him as the embodiment of the Celtic Tiger in a sportsman.
People said aahh, he's funny, he's different, he's amusing, he's all these things. He was ignorant and he's been like the embodiment of the Celtic Tiger in a sportsman. Loud, obnoxious, ignorant. And justified for the sake of a profit. That was always people's great excuse when it came to him. No matter what he said. I mean he called a German opponent 'a nazi, a steroid head'. He's been like that throughout his career in the UFC.
However, it didn't end there. McGregor isn't done embodying things. He embodies something even larger than our piffling little Celtic Tiger - the entire neo-liberal world order.
Over on BBC Radio Five Live, journalist JP O'Malley said that McGregor was a 'vulgar corporate sellout' who behaves 'like an infant' who thinks he's in the Cosa Nostra in his pre-fight press conference. Not only that but his behaviour in press conferences have bordered on racism at times.
