Conor McGregor has reached the point in his fame where everyone wants to know what he's really like behind the scenes. The former UFC champion has a larger-than-life persona and it's made him very famous.

The Irishman's bodyguard recently did an interview, that has since been deleted, where he discussed what the Irishman is actually like when the cameras aren't rolling. It turns out the UFC fighter is not quite The Notorious when the cameras are off.

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“What you see in the media isn’t necessarily how they are as a person,” Atkinson said on The Fisticuffs podcast about the UFC fighter. “I always said, ‘Conor, he’s a great actor, do you know what I mean?

“The man… There’s no doubt about it, he’s an absolute genius but the Notorious MMA [persona] is very much a character who he plays a lot of the time. He’s a much quieter [person] and he’s, yeah, he’s very quiet and he’s got a personality like an artist where he kind of wears his heart on his sleeve…he’s a phenomenal actor and he’s a genius, you know, notorious MMA is a character who he plays that made him a billionaire within a matter of years.” (Transcribed by Sportskeeda)

Conor McGregor is always going to be an intriguing character whether he's different off-camera or not. The former two-division UFC champion has captured the imagination of fans and is always going to draw interest. There is still no word on who exactly he will fight when he returns to the UFC cage.