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Fightweets: Conor McGregor’s dangerous path

Related Topics: Whitey Bulger

We’re smack dab in the middle of one of the year’s busiest fight weekends, so let’s waste no further time getting into another edition of Fightweets:

Conor’s hijinx: Cause for concern?

@greekkid31: How real do you take the reports of Conor’s run-in with the mob?

Not very. Want to know what happens when the Irish mobsters have you in their crosshairs? Consider this: Sometime back in the 1990s, a young hothead named Dana White was running a small-time boxing gym in South Boston. One day, a representative of murderous Irish-American mobster Whitey Bulger came by and gave White a day to come up with “protection” money.