Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor continues to make headlines for his actions exterior of the cage. The Irishman was caught on video spitting in a fan’s face and will face authorized motion consequently.
McGregor was strolling along with his entourage when a fan requested him for a photograph. One other fan started chanting ‘Let’s go Khabib,’ referencing McGregor’s storied rivalry with Khabib Nurmagomedov. McGregor rotated and approached the male in query after which spit in his face.
“I spit in your face. What you do? Nothing,” McGregor stated to the fan as he walked away.
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Spitting on somebody is against the law. It sometimes ends in a battery or assault cost in almost each nation on the planet. It is unclear whether or not the fan will pursuit authorized motion.
The incident is simply the most recent in McGregor’s lengthy historical past of controversy. In November, an Irish court docket jury discovered McGregor chargeable for sexually assaulting Nikita Hand in December 2018. Hand was awarded roughly $250,000 in damages and McGregor was additionally ordered to pay her authorized charges. In 2019, McGregor was convicted and fined in an Irish court docket on for assaulting a person in a Dublin pub.
In March 2019, McGregor was arrested and charged in Miami, Florida, for allegedly smashing and taking a fan’s telephone. It was the second time in lower than a 12 months that McGregor had been served with felony fees. He was additionally arrested on a felony cost for attacking a bus stuffed with UFC 223 fighters following that occasion’s media day in Brooklyn in April of 2018.
