Conor McGregor had a memorable meeting with Super Bowl winner Ryan Clark at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas last weekend while attending a boxing match.
The legendary former two-weight UFC champion returned to Sin City to watch Gervonta Davis stop Ryan Garcia in the seventh round of their super-fight, and met with a number of big names during the night. He was spotted in Garcia's dressing room after the fight as well as meeting Floyd Mayweather Sr, but found time to take a picture with Clark and his son Jordan.
Clark is an avid MMA fan, and hosts a show on ESPN with the iconic former heavyweight and light-heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, who is one of just three people other than McGregor to also hold two belts in the UFC simultaneously. The pair discussed the event on their show DC & RC, with the football player noting how "gracious" McGregor was with his time.
"Here's what's crazy about it, he goes to talking about being an athlete, he's standing on one foot and he's talking to [my son] Jordan about balance," Clark explained of the meeting to Cormier. "That's the type of charisma and magnetism that this dude has is that he was about to have my grown adult son, who plays college football, standing on one foot in the back of T-Mobile [Arena]."
The pair had met previously on the set of SportsCentre on ESPN when McGregor was preparing to face Jose Aldo in 2015 and Clark had just retired from the sport. The football player noted that he hadn't forgotten the moment between them, and was complimentary of his show with Cormier.
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"I actually met Conor [McGregor] before. He was ESPN, he was in Bristol, it was before he fought Jose Aldo and this was before the suits, he was just going around shadowboxing. He talks to me before I go on set to do SportsCenter. And as soon as I saw him, he recalled that moment.
"He actually told me 'I love what you're doing with UFC it's super cool to see you grow. I said 'hey man, I would be really grateful, it's my son's birthday, would you take a picture with him?' He said 'absolutely'... It was crazy, and Conor is frickin' swole. This ain't 145lb Conor no more, dog. Conor is swole.
"But it was like, we get opportunities to be around these extremely successful, famous, powerful athletes and people in general. Some of those people have an aura, Conor has an aura, bro. When you meet him, it was like when Bruce Leroy got the glow when he was fighting in Sho 'Nuff [a comedy film]? Remember that? Conor got the glow, bro, Conor's the master."
