McGregor goes off on Twitter, says Poirier fight is off

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UFC 257 Dustin Poirier v Conor McGregor: Weigh-Ins


Yesterday Dustin Poirier claimed that, despite Conor McGregor agreeing to donate $500,000 to his The Good Fight Foundation, McGregor’s team has yet to follow through on the offer. McGregor responded, leading to a terse back and forth between the two fighters.

Today McGregor has decided to continue the war of words.

conor mcgregor, dustin poirier


“You’re ripped you inbred hillbilly.” wrote McGregor. “Why do you wink with your ears? You fucking brain dead hillbilly. 500k with no plan in place. Ye hang tight. Fool. You must be new to money. The fight is off btw. I’m going to fight someone else on the 10th. Good luck on your old contract kid.”

In the tweet McGregor threatens that he is pulling out of his trilogy fight with Poirier, which is currently scheduled for UFC 264 on July 10.

Moments after that post McGregor tweeted again and appeared to walk back his threat of pulling out.

conor mcgregor, dustin poirier


“My team does their due diligence to make sure every donation meets the mark,” wrote McGregor, responding to a Poirier tweet from yesterday. “My generosity is known. You will pay with your brain for this attempt at smearing my name. Shooting ass shelling ass bitch. Little bitch kicks from a shell. Good luck when you’re caught. You’re fucked.”

McGregor’s manager Audie Attar also got in on the argument. Tweeting to Poirier to defend his client’s reputation for charitable giving.

conor mcgregor, dustin poirier, audie attar


“Dustin! Why you frontin?” wrote Attar. “Did you forget the face to face meeting we just had in Utah with our families? Where we stood by you as you tried to get more $ from the UFC? Conor is as generous as it gets. Don’t dismiss his business savvy. He always gets it done. This is a low move man.”

Poirier was quick to respond to that one, tweeting: “His team hasn’t responded to our emails about anything involving my foundation after they reached out to us originally. All good. Dinner and talk was great but don’t get on Twitter and be a tough guy lol.”

Poirier also had a response for McGregor’s ‘hillbilly’ tirade. See that below:

Ok pic.twitter.com/Fwg0GM7bs2

— The Diamond (@DustinPoirier) April 12, 2021
In January Poirier handed McGregor the first TKO loss of the Irishman’s career. That win was revenge for when McGregor TKO’d Poirier back in 2014. This twitter spat aside, the pair are still expected to meet in a trilogy fight at UFC 264 this summer.


Conor McGregor explodes over Poirier charity issue, threatens to pull out of UFC 264
 
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You've gotta wonder why Dustin didn't just give the details on how the money is going to be used. What exactly is he trying to hide?
 

Sheepdog

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This is incredibly lame.

I signed up to be a piece of shit cage fight watching degenerate, not be a piece of shit twitter-feud-over-a-fucking-charity-donation watching degenerate.
 

Judobill

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What if, just consider it, that Conor’s financial people took a close look at Dustin’s charity and decided it sucked?
 

jason73

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this is how you know conor is over. even a couple years ago anything conor did would be 20 pages by now. now nobody even cares .he has no hype now.
 

blas4ublasphemy

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Conor promised his opponent half a million before the fight, the fight doesn't go Conor's way and he decides not to pay. Was this an attempt at bribery?
 

ejlarson

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Man did Conor just get cucked by the UFC. Lol! What a goof. He knows where he stands now at least.
 

Mace

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What if, just consider it, that Conor’s financial people took a close look at Dustin’s charity and decided it sucked?
If that were to be the case it could only come down to a matter of opinion on what the charity should do with the donation. They are very forthcoming and transparent. They work with city and state government, which have their own auditors and tax attorneys who look for safe havens and any unaccounted funds. It very well may be Conor seeing the financial ramifications of donating that amount to an American charity while a citizen and resident of another country. He would be paying a great deal more than 500k for the charity to receive that amount. I think he's trying to recreate the emotional hate filled Dustin like the first fight hoping he'll abandon his plan and start brawling.
 
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What if, just consider it, that Conor’s financial people took a close look at Dustin’s charity and decided it sucked?
From Reddit:

Poirier's Good Fight Foundation, unlike a typical reputable charity, has no publicly available financial statements and no detailed breakdown of expenses. His wife is the treasurer. The charity is neither rated nor profiled by any major charity watch.

1) No publicly available detailed list of expenses.

The charity's IRS Form 990 provides no details or breakdown on how its money is spent. The form just has two entries for expenses: $4,810 in office expenses and $178,210 in "other expenses." The form provides no specifics on what these "other expenses" are.

Sec. 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code gives charities tax-exempt status only if they comply with Federal disclosure and recordkeeping requirements.

Dustin's IRS filing explicitly claims tax -exempt status but has nowhere near the level of detail required.

As an accountant below pointed out: "No way in hell I would ever put 90%+ of a client’s deductions into miscellaneous expenses. That’s a big no-no and a red flag."

The charity's website has some pictures and blurbs about its activities, but no audited financial statements providing a detailed breakdown of actual expenses. Even unaudited statements cannot be found.

Publicly available audited financial statements are standard for a reputable charity. See for example the highly rated Malaria Foundation and Hellen Keller International.

Granted, Dustin's charity isn't as big as these examples. That doesn't excuse him from the legal obligation of financial transparency, an obligation that applies to everyone who solicits money from the public while claiming tax-exempt status under Sec. 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. If for some reason he can't hire even a local accountant to audit his charity (despite bringing in at least $300K), why not post at least a detailed breakdown of expenses?

2) Conflict of Interest

The same IRS form indicates that the charity has three officers, two of whom are Dustin and his wife, who is the Treasurer of the charity.

Having your wife as Treasurer of your charity represents a massive conflict of interest, which IRS regulations specifically require you to avoid.

Reputable charities typically have an independent professional in this position. It isn't necessarily expensive to do this. It is really not that hard to ask a professional acquaintance to volunteer his time. Just don't put your wife there, for chrissake.

3) No ratings or financial information available on major charity watches

Charity Navigator: not scored

Charity Watch: no results found

Guidestar: profile needs more info

Being unrated and unprofiled by these organizations doesn't necessarily mean anything sinister. However, at the very least this indicates a lack of substantial and verifiable track record. What is even more concerning is the fact that the charity has not disclosed or posted any financial information to these sites, which you can do regardless of how new your company is.

None of these indicates any wrongdoing by Dustin, of course. However, it does raise red flags, especially the lack of independent oversight in the charity's board.

If a client were to ask me, based on these documents, whether I could recommend the charity for a $500,000 donation, I could not ethically do so.
 

BenAskrensStrikingcoach

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A bit shit of Poirier to air this out in public but McGregor as usual is being a cunt, he wasn’t asked to donate, he volunteered he wanted the charitable man clout, only this time he wasn’t using it to buy good pr after a rape case or an assault

It’s not on Dustin to chase him with his hands out.

That said McGregor is right as well, Dustin should have a proper plan for the money and he wants to see where it is all going, can’t really argue with that.

Either way this is pointless fight and no amount of bullshit will increase the buy rate.
 

Tuc Ouiner

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Don't care if the cousin-fucker eats potatoes or jambalaya, the bearded one is a double talking welching-ass jive turkey.