UFC star Mcgregor facing criminal charges
UFC star Conor Mcgregor is facing criminal charges after a backstage melee injured two fighters and forced the removal of three bouts on Saturday night from UFC’S biggest card this year.
Video footage appears to show the promotion’s most bankable star throwing a hand truck at a bus full of fighters on Thursday after a news conference for UFC 223 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
The New York Police Department says Mcgregor was charged, facing three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief.
UFC President Dana White said Friday he spoke to Mcgregor via text and the brawler said the confrontation “had to be done.”
“It was probably the worst conversation we ever had,” White told FS1’S “First Things First” on Friday. “We talked yesterday before he turned himself in.
“It’s not that I don’t think he understood what happened. He Conor Mcgregor is led by an official to an unmarked vehicle while leaving the 78th Precinct of the New York Police Department yesterday in Brooklyn.
justified it. It was justified to him.”
White said the 29-year-old McGregor said he was sorry about the fighters who were injured, but, “this had to be done.”
Video showed Mcgregor with a group of people causing chaos Thursday as they took an elevator to the loading dock at Barclays
Center. He can be seen tossing trash cans and being prevented from throwing a barricade at a bus during his unannounced appearance in New York.
Michael Chiesa was sent to the hospital with injuries sustained in the attack and was forced out of his scheduled fight against Anthony Pettis.