Conor McGregor, the richest mixed martial artist of all time and a former UFC two-division champion, is renowned for his trash talk and is arguably the most conceited fighter to have ever competed in the octagon. For his first major Hollywood part, however, he adopted a very different strategy.
In the 1989 cult film “Road House,” starring Patrick Swayze remake McGregor plays Knox, the main antagonist of Jake Gyllenhaal’s “Elwood Dalton,” a former UFC fighter employed as a bar manager to maintain order in a noisy roadhouse. The movie will debut on Prime Video on March 21.
Conor McGregor did not need to make an effort for the fight scenes during the shoot of the movie, it was all natural to him, for which Conor McGregor gave the credits to Dana White. Additionally, McGregor has not stopped hinting at his purportedly impending comeback to the octagon on June 29, International Fight Week. However, Dana White has often stated that he believes the Irishman does not require the kind of money the UFC is paying him to compete.
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The UFC superstar has never shied away from a challenge, having won two world titles and box office bouts with the finest in the game. Simply ask Floyd Mayweather, who gave McGregor his first boxing ring introduction in 2017.
‘The Notorious’s’ most recent project, however, does not fall inside either the Octagon or the Squared Circle. Rather, McGregor storms the film business, securing the part of “Knox” in Jake Gyllenhaal’s “Road House” remake.
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While the rest of the world waits to see the movie on Amazon Prime Video on March 21, it had its debut at the SXSW Festival on Friday. In “Road House,” McGregor (22–6) fights with Gyllenhaal, and he is quite pleased with how the planned fight scenes turned out in the end.
In his acting debut, McGregor co-stars with Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Donnie Darko), with whom he claims to have gotten along better than anyone.
When McGregor first arrived in Hollywood, he didn’t realize how minor of a part he would play as “Knox.” However, the storyline seemed to shift for the former champion as the UFC became more engaged in the film.
