UFC president Dana White confirmed on Wednesday that Conor McGregor will appear on Season 7 of Game of Thrones, everyone’s some people’s favorite gory television show where no one lives for very long. Seeing as everybody eventually bites the dust and White says that McGregor — a strong, often angry dude — has already shot some scenes, we here at SB Nation are fairly certain that McGregor will murder at least 17 people. Here are our best guesses as to how he will do it (SPOILER ALERT!!!).
Conor McGregor is going to be on ‘Game of Thrones.’ Here’s how we think he’ll kill people
Highly educated and very scientific guesses from the SB Nation staff.
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Matt Ufford: Given the cottage industry of celebrity-as-zombie that The Walking Dead enjoyed a few years back (not to mention Game of Thrones’ established preference for respected dramatic actors), we may be getting overexcited for what might be a wordless cameo for McGregor. But hey, this is a show that employs an Icelandic strongman to smash people’s skulls like grapes, so don’t underestimate its capacity for ass kicking. My preferences:
- McGregor trades a series of devastating one-liners with Bronn that ultimately kills both characters.
- McGregor plays a very tall dwarf who baits Tyrion into combat.
- McGregor punches a dragon. Oh, he’ll punch a dragon all right. He’ll go to a zoo to punch the komodos if you even suggest he won’t.
Tom Ziller: Conor McGregor will be a White Walker. The Night King blows the Horn of Joramun, The Wall falls, and McGregor does the Billionaire Strut into Castle Black and sticks an axe into poor Dolorous Edd’s dome.
Charlotte Wilder: First of all, I should preface this hypothesis by saying that I don’t watch Game of Thrones. I used to — I made it through Season 2 and then I skipped ahead and watched the episode with the Red Wedding. I was so bummed when that Dude with the Great Hair (I can’t remember his name, and Googling “that Dude with the Great Hair in Game of Thrones” only turns up pictures of Kit Harington, AKA Jon Snow, AKA not the guy I’m talking about) and Lady Stark got sliced to death that I was like, “NOPE,” and dropped GOT like a statistics class in college.
That said, I think Conor McGregor will definitely choke someone out. Have you seen his arms? They’re basically choking-out machines. Here’s my Clue-like prediction: It’ll be McGregor, starring as a Grildorf, one of the Purple Borginders. In the land of Shmake Shmelieve. With his bare hands.
Ryan Nanni:
Kevin McCauley: I’ve never seen Game of Thrones and can’t name one character or creature on it. But I hope Conor McGregor punches someone in the face.
Richard Johnson: All I know about Game Of Thrones is that people have sex and die. McGregor is on record saying he’s very OK with doing the former before a fight, which is rare, because fighters are often superstitious. But McGregor went on Conan and said “I definitely have as much sex as possible.” As far as how he’ll kill? This seems MMA-y:
Cameron Neimand: Here is what will obviously happen: One of the Faceless Men assassins will use Floyd Mayweather’s face as a disguise in an unexplained moment of anachronism, and McGregor will drop down from the sky and kill him with his brawny Irish fists faster than you can say potato.
Jessica Smetana: It took every ounce of self-control to not write a 10-page dissertation on this subject. (Ed. Note: we’re proud of Jess for holding herself back.)
Conor McGregor will play the true son of — get this — Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen. Ned Stark callously threw baby McGregor into the wild after rescuing him from his dying mother. McGregor was raised by a pack of wolves in the north, hence his silly northern accent. He grows up knowing his true identity, which propels him to become the best fighter of his generation. He storms into Winterfell where he kills Jon Snow with a single punch. Snow’s men rally around McGregor as he declares himself KING OF THE NORTH!
Alternatively, McGregor is the wildling brother of Ygritte (they kiiiind of look alike right? K, maybe not) and then he kills Jon Snow to avenge his sister.
Either way, McGregor kills Snow. I’m calling it.
Tyler Tynes: I hope Conor gets eaten by a dragon.
Mark Hinog: I’ve barely seen an episode of Game of Thrones, but I’ve been watching a lot of the Japanese reality show Terrace House on Netflix. No one gets killed on Terrace House (and hopefully they won’t anytime soon), but someone does get angry about meat that wasn’t supposed to be eaten. So I hope someone eats the meat that Conor was saving for a special occasion, because then he can just get angry and punch that person a bunch of times.
Main takeaway, here: We think there’s probably lot of punching heading our way.
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