UFC legend Conor McGregor ‘in serious talks’ to buy OnlyFans with £6BILLION adult website up for sale
CONOR MCGREGOR has sensationally claimed he's "in talks" to buy online content platform OnlyFans.
OnlyFans has taken the world by storm in the last five years, with everyone from musicians to your ordinary Joe using the platform to give their followers exclusive access to content and their daily lives.
The online subscription service, however, is now dominated by adult content creators, who account for a large portion of their revenue.
The platform's revenue jumped from £277million ($375m) to a whopping £4.8BILLION ($6B) in 2023 in large part due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The company is now valued at just over SIX BILLION POUNDS (EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS) and owner Leonid Radvinsky is keen to cash in.
And UFC icon McGregor has claimed he's one of the parties interested in acquiring the platform, which is expected to field multiple offers.
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Resharing an Instagram post about the service being up for sale, McGregor wrote on his story: "I'm in serious talks to buy this."
The Irishman, 36, is said to have a net worth of £147m ($200m), meaning he'd have to have some serious additional financial backing to become the owner of OnlyFans.
McGregor hasn't set foot inside the octagon since breaking his left leg in his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier nearly four years ago.
He's turned his attention to promoting during his hiatus, acquiring shares in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship in April 2024.
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McGregor jumped at the opportunity to become a major shareholder in the promotion, telling SunSport in an exclusive interview: "This is a major player in this industry.
"Bareknuckle Fighting Championship is a major, major player in this industry. And it's growing fast.
"And it's got an unbelievable foundation, it's a rock-solid [foundation].
"With the stable of fighters and a stable team, the team around it that's grown it and built it, this is a serious player in the game."
McGregor was set to make his grand return to the cage last June in a long-overdue showdown with rival Ultimate Fighter season 31 coach Michael Chandler.
But he withdrew from their Sin City showdown with a broken left pinky toe.
The UFC's poster boy recently urged the promotion to put the wheels in motion for his return.
I'm in serious talks to buy this."
Conor McGregor on OnlyFans
But Dana White has pumped the brakes on the prospect of the former two-weight champion returning to the cage anytime soon.
The UFC's President and CEO told Adam Glyn: "He's not fighting anytime soon. I haven't talked to him in a minute.
"But yeah, I don't know when [he'll fight again]."
If McGregor does ever fight again, his next outing will be his first since being found civilly liable for assaulting Nikita Hand at a Dublin Hotel in December 2018.
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The former two-division champion appealed the verdict returned at Dublin's High Court last November.
He's hoping the introduction of new evidence will overturn the result of the civil trial.
