MMA Fighter Conor McGregor and Proper No. 12 Irish Whiskey
By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media MMA Correspondent
This week, at a local convenience and liquor store, a poster on the glass door of the store presented a unique boxing mystery. This reporter could not immediately identify the person in a boxing pose on the liquor advertisement for Proper No. 12 Irish Whiskey on the store door. Of course, the screenshot of the second image with this story gives the answer away. The answer came later, after an initial misidentification.
With help from third parties, the boxer on the poster was originally misidentified as Irish southpaw middleweight Andy Lee, who held the World Boxing Organization World Middleweight title from 2014 to 2015. Lee competed professionally between 2006 and 2017, compiling a record of 35-3-1 with 24 knockouts. Lee retired after winning by eighth-round decision over KeAndre Leatherwood in 2017.
The fighter on the liquor store poster is actually UFC Featherweight and Lightweight champion Conor McGregor, who began producing his Proper 12 Irish Whiskey in 2018.
Ironically, Andy Lee was loud in verbal criticism of McGregor, after McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather Jr., as a mismatch. While the two fighters are both Irish by ethnic identity, and both have had scruffy beards, similarities ended there. McGregor took the payday with Floyd and does not care about Lee’s opinions. Here’s to Irish green whiskey.
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