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Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal reveal if they'd rather fight a bear or a gorilla
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Updated 21:00 27 Mar 2024 GMTPublished 20:58 27 Mar 2024 GMT

Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal reveal if they'd rather fight a bear or a gorilla

McGregor took a dig at a former opponent in his answer

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

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Topics: Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor McGregor, Film and TV

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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You probably wouldn’t fare well going up against either animal, but Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal know which beast they’d prefer to tussle with.

Having to fight either a bear or gorilla sounds well... a sure way to die and go out rather painfully.

Compared to the average person, both animals are considerably stronger, with, let’s say, unconventional fighting styles.

And it is also worth pointing out, animals don’t often fight fair.

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Would you rather fight a bear or a gorilla?
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So, it might be worth pulling out all your tricks if you end up having to fight off a bear or gorilla.

Speaking to UNILAD and playing the game This or That, Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal, who star in Amazon Prime Video’s Road House, the two know exactly which one they are picking.

Funnily enough, the former MMA fighter took a jab at Khabib Nurmagomedov in his answer.

As part of the game, the pair would hold up cards that say ‘This’ or ‘That’. In this instance, This represented a Bear and That represented the Gorilla.

McGregor said: “I'll go this [bear]. Fighting a bear is handy. I fought one that trained with bears back in the day. He's only a little fool. He went running."

Nurmagomedov famously claimed to have trained with bears in his youth and he would eventually go on to solidify himself as one of the best fighters in the sport.

In a hotly anticipated UFC match in 2018, the pair faced off and Nurmagomedov beat McGregor with a submission in the fourth round.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor discussed whether they’d prefer to fight a gorilla or bear.
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Seemingly ignoring McGregor’s comments, Gyllenhaal added: “I’m going bear too and the only reason I am going bear is there are more information online about that, there is less information about fighting gorillas.

“I’ve seen more stuff about fighting [bears].”

McGregor chimed in: “Jesus, I would like to fight a gorilla. Imagine it fighting me."

McGregor took a jab at former opponent Khabib Nurmagomedov in his answer
McGregor took a jab at former opponent Khabib Nurmagomedov in his answer

But he conceded that he would stick with his option of the bear.

The duo’s chemistry during the UNILAD game is quite apparent and it seems to have translated into their film, a remake of the Patrick Swayze 1989 original.

The film currently sits on IMDb with a rating of 6.2/10 after over 55,000 views, so not too bad.

On Rotten Tomatoes, it is much of the same, but critics seemed to like it a touch more as the film has a critics' score of 61 percent while the audience score has the score pegged at 55 percent.

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