Coked Conor 'Partying Real Hard'

12/15/2024 01:00 PM

Rogan doubts McGregor can return to fighting given how hard he's been partying for the past several years.

Joe Rogan isn't sure if Conor McGregor is ever going to fight again, and he blames the Irish sport's star's downfall on cocaine ... and too many hits to the head over the course of his UFC career.

In a conversation with YouTuber Derek Munro from More Plates More Dates, Rogan gave his thoughts on McGregor's recent guilty civil verdict for sexual assault in Ireland along with the drug use and partying it confirmed in black and white.

"I don't know if Conor's ever going to fight again," Rogan said. "I don't know the real details of that case. I know his version of it, and her version of it, and what played out in the court. But the reality is that guy's partying. And he's partying real hard. He talked about it in the court case. He was talking about cocaine. That was the whole thing: 'We were all doing cocaine and we were f**king.'"

Munro pointed out several recent videos of McGregor looking high on cocaine.

"Allegedly," Rogan added. "He seems at least excited ... He seems like he's tweaking."

Rogan went on to share a theory he had about fighters getting mixed up in drugs due to the damage done to their brains during competition and training.

''A lot of fighters, they've sustained a lot of damage over the course of their career, and there's no way to not get that," he said. "We've all seen Conor get beat up and knocked out. We've seen Conor's sparring footage. He's sparring pro boxers, he's sparring elite fighters. You're getting hit in the head. A lot. And a lot of fighters, especially toward the ends of their careers, turn to drugs."

"I think there's probably a constant state of discomfort that they live in where their dopamine levels are all f—ed up, their cortisol levels are all f—ed up. You're not supposed to get punched in the head a thousand times a year. It's just not supposed to happen, and that's the reality of consistent training."

Rogan detailed how often fighters took brain-rattling punches during sparring or even grappling classes and the prognosis was pretty grim.

"You've got consistent trauma to your f—ing dome over and over and over again," he said. "Then you get a little bit of coke and you're feeling good again. I bet you get addicted to it. The guy obviously likes extreme things, which is why he's such a great fighter. They're wild people. It's why Jon Jones liked cocaine too."

Whatever the reason for McGregor's increasingly erratic behavior, things are not exactly moving in a positive direction for the UFC's former mega-star.