- The Australian boxer is sponsored by the great UFC
- The pair enjoy a strong friendship, but fight fans claim they are more
- Bridges has exploited the luxury of constant innuendo.
Australian boxer Ebanie Bridges has lashed out at fight fans who have a ‘fantasy’ about her and Conor McGregor, lashing out after continually having to defend her friendship with the UFC legend.
McGregor and Bridges first met at professional boxer and former Irish footballer Katie Taylor’s opening fight against Chantelle Cameron last May and then went to see Anthony Joshua fight Robert Helenius a few months later.
After the match, Bridges had to respond to criticism about his friendship with McGregor. Two months later, they confirmed their relationship by announcing a sponsorship deal.
Now, Bridges is sponsored by McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout.
Australian boxer Ebanie Bridges and UFC superstar Conor McGregor have a strong friendship and business relationship.
Despite repeatedly saying that they are just friends, rumors continue to swirl on social media among fight fans.
That has done little to quiet the online noise from fans suggesting the duo are more than just friends, and Bridges has had enough.
‘Yes, it’s fucking annoying [that I have to defend our friendship] because I’m very clear about it,” Bridges told instantcasinos.com.
‘Maybe I’m too smart or I just think it’s common sense. I think they [fans] They have this little fantasy that we’re getting fucked, and then they get excited about it and maybe they’re going to get fucked.
‘I don’t know, but that’s all I can think of. Because honestly, if something was going on, I feel like we wouldn’t be together in public if we were doing something like that.
‘I wouldn’t wear those designer clothes all the time and have a forged Irish Stout in my hand all the time. It is clearly a promotion.
“They want to think about it in their head for whatever reason, for their own little fantasies or to try to take me down or try to take down Conor, because he has a lot of enemies too.”
But in the end, people who say that are just trying to spread rumors and make things up or get excited.’
Bridges has become as known for showing off the flesh as she is for her boxing skills.
Irish fighter McGregor has four children with his long-term partner Dee Devlin
McGregor and Bridges insist their relationship is strictly business and the Australian said anything else is a “fantasy”.
It’s not the first time Bridges has been forced to defend her friendship with the UFC star and budding Hollywood action hero.
The former world champion traveled to Dublin in February to visit McGregor and spend the night partying in one of his pubs.
Bridges shared photos of her night on the tiles with former two-weight champion and 6-1 professional boxer Jasmina Zapotoczna.
That sparked a series of inappropriate comments questioning Bridges’ relationship with McGregor, who has four children with his long-time partner Dee Devlin.
Bridges put them in their place with a four-word response: “That’s what friends do.”
The Australian boxer said in November that her and McGregor’s numerous public appearances together were purely business.
He really uses me for influence. He is sponsoring me to get his brand out there. That’s what sponsors do,” he said at the time.
‘We met at the AJ fight and I used his brand there, because he’s using me to get his brand out. Otherwise, he would wear a thick shirt.
‘But we work together because he knows, he and I, that people will talk about his brand.
“Not that I need it, but we both help each other, we’re both an asset to each other’s brands, we both help build each other up, it’s not one-sided.”
“They approached me, I wasn’t the one chasing them.”