McBLOODY MESS
New view of Conor carnage
The UFC on Saturday released new video footage of Conor McGregor’s Brooklyn meltdown, in which he smashed bus windows and challenged a busload of MMA combatants to fight on the spot.
Action filmed from inside the bus carrying fighters at the Barclays Center shows McGregor wildly hurling a hand truck that smashed through the vehicle’s windows and cut the face of UFC combatant Mike Chiesa.
“What the f--k?” Chiesa says with blood running down his face.
At one point, McGregor pounds on bus windows with his fists, screaming, “Get out, get out!”
“Smash the windows!” McGregor tells his cohorts.
A metal barricade, garbage can and a chair were among the items McGregor attempted to fling at the bus of fighters in the bizarre outburst, which sparked confusion among those inside the vehicle.
“Who are these guys?” a person is heard saying on the bus just after the hand truck was hurled.
“Conor’s guys,” another man responds.
“What the f--k is wrong with him?” someone says.
McGregor’s freak-out came after a UFC news conference Thursday to hype its card for Saturday’s Barclays Center bouts.
The ire-filled Irishman was enraged that UFC planned to strip him of his lightweight title due to inactivity. McGregor hasn’t fought in a UFC event since 2016.
He famously took on boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. last year in a crossover bout that reportedly earned him $100 million.
McGregor, and at least 10 others, scampered out of a Barclays loading dock after the attack, joyfully hooting and hollering, the video shows.
As the dust settled, lightweight contender Khabib Nurmagomedov exited the bus and said McGregor should meet him mano a mano, the footage shows.
“Just tell me where and that’s it,” Nurmagomedov says. “Why you need [to] come here, show up like you want to fight or something like this? Send a message, ‘Hey, come here, this place,’ and that’s it, without security, without UFC, without nothing.”
The video also captured UFC Vice President Reed Harris calling from inside the bus, telling his boss, UFC CEO Dana White, what had just unfolded.
“Conor McGregor’s team just at- tacked our bus,” Harris says. “They threw [an object] through the window of our bus, and we’re stuck at Barclays arena. Mike Chiesa’s cut really bad.”
McGregor surrendered to cops on assault charges late Thursday and is due in court in June.
McGregor will fight again, despite jail time and a possible suspension hanging over his head, his manager tweeted.
“Conor is a great father, a fiercely loyal friend, and one of the best athletes in the world. He looks forward to getting back to fighting as soon as possible,” Audie Attar wrote.
McGregor was holed up in a Manhattan hotel Saturday, keeping quiet as he emerged in the early evening surrounded by bodyguards.