{"id":1517,"date":"2023-06-23T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2023-06-24T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:49:13","slug":"stephen-thompson-is-considering-an-invitation-from-conor-mcgregor-to-train-at-tuf-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/stephen-thompson-is-considering-an-invitation-from-conor-mcgregor-to-train-at-tuf-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Thompson is considering an invitation from Conor McGregor to train at TUF 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Stephen Thompson&#8217;s recent interview with ESPN MMA, he spoke of his thrill at being invited by Conor McGregor to train at TUF 31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Thompson, it will be a great experience to participate in a group of young and ambitious UFC fighters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson has expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to coach the next generation of UFC superstars in Season 31 alongside trainer Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_12691\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mr8-ye10gRo?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ESPN MMA released a hilarious collage on Instagram featuring &#8216;Wonderboy&#8217; being called upon like Batman to the bat-signal, except the signal is Thompson&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Check out the picture below:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sportskeeda-embed\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-src=\"instagram\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CtvEW9mR5NA\/embed\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportskeeda.com&amp;rp=%2Fmma%2Fnews-he-can-t-coach-guys-himself-fans-hilariously-react-conor-mcgregor-calling-upon-stephen-thompson-train-tuf-31-team#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2098%7D\" height=\"746\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As expected, fans were quick to jump in the comments section and post hilarious replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Stephen Thompson&#8217;s recent interview with ESPN MMA, he spoke of his thrill at being invited by Conor McGregor to train at TUF 31. For Thompson, it will be a great experience to participate in a group of young and ambitious UFC fighters. UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson has expressed his gratitude for the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}