Vince McMahon had a concrete plan to bring Conor McGregor to WrestleMania for a match against then-WWE star Enzo Amore. The revelation came from Amore himself, who detailed the previously unknown storyline during an appearance on the Julian Dorey Podcast.
According to Amore, the directive came directly from McMahon around 2016, coinciding with the breakup of his popular tag team with Big Cass. While Cass was being informed of his own creative direction, McMahon laid out a multi-step plan for Amore.
“You’re going to be the cruiserweight champ, and I want you tweeting at Conor McGregor, picking a fight,” Amore recalled McMahon telling him. “We want McGregor for fcking WrestleMania.”
The proposed angle was designed to capitalize on real-world tension McGregor had generated that same year. The UFC star drew significant heat from the wrestling world after claiming he would “slap everyone” on the WWE roster ahead of his UFC 202 fight with Nate Diaz, creating a ready-made narrative for a crossover feud.
Although the match between Amore and McGregor never came to fruition, the dynamic of a WWE star targeting the Irish fighter to generate a reaction continues under the TKO umbrella.
Most recently, Logan Paul has taken aim at McGregor. During a recent SmackDown taping in Dublin, Paul insulted the live crowd and later used his YouTube vlog to call the Irish people “drunk, washed up failures,” specifically labeling McGregor as “washed up.” This continues a verbal feud between the two that was once slated to become a boxing match before the UFC reportedly intervened.