Conor McGregor Gifted His Booze to Anti-Doping Agents

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• MMA megastar Conor McGregor recently underwent anti-doping drug tests ahead of a return to the ring.

• As a thank-you gift, McGregor reportedly gave the anti-doping agents samples of his whiskey and beer brands.

• This is because Conor McGregor's whole vibe can only be described as "gloriously absurd."

Y'know, in the old days, we used to have a lot of athletes who were wild, larger-than-life characters. Ty Cobb jumping into the stands to beat a heckler. Dennis Rodman ditching Bulls practice to wrestle with the NWO. Diego Maradona's downtime habits making The Wolf of Wall Street look like The Waltons. And just... all of Mike Tyson's 80s, 90s and 2000s.

Nowadays, most famous athletes (and, more importantly, their teams) know there's more money to be made by keeping their act clean, playing it safe, and avoiding scandalous situations (or, at the very least, ensuring nobody is livestreaming them).

And then there's Conor McGregor.

One of the most famous Irish sports stars in the world, stories of MMA and boxing star McGregor's antics outside the ring/octagon are such that, well, you'd think they're the kind of things an author would make up about a fictional Irish boxer named Conor McGregor in the kind of book we'd now say has "aged poorly" for "outdated cliches." Like, Saturday Night Live did a sketch making McGregor out to be a constant barroom brawler, even punching a guy in a pub and then buying the very pub he assaulted the guy in; and it turns out, those weren't jokes. That's just him.

This brings us to what McGregor got up to when anti-doping agents recently visited him.

"I was tested two separate times yesterday, and within an hour of each other," McGregor said in a video he posted on X (formerly Twitter). "Blood and urine. 3 samples of each were requested and given in both instances."

McGregor undergoing these tests is likely in anticipation of a return to UFC in 2024. As an article in Whiskey Raiders (you'll see why they're reporting on this in a moment), McGregor and the president of the UFC, Dana White, had previously reportedly tried to "bend the rules and speed up the testing process so McGregor could fight in 2023."

So McGregor submitted to testing, though he did make the testers come to him. "They came aboard my yacht. I welcomed them," he said. But don't worry, he didn't send them home empty-handed. And if you read that and went, "Oh, he probably gave them...well, no, that's silly of me to assume he gave them whiskey and beer just because..." Don't worry, that's 100% what he did.

"Gave them a can of @ForgedStout and a @ProperWhiskey. Life is good." McGregor said, concluding his post by tagging the social media handles for the two alcoholic beverage companies he owns, Forged Irish Stout and Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey.

Yep, McGregor gave the anti-doping agents who came to test him whiskey and beer as a thank-you gift. Because Conor McGregor hears people of Irish ancestry like me say, "I wish people saw the Irish as more than just men who love whiskey and a good donnybrook. We're so much more than that," and he laughs at us while knocking back a pint.

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