Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
CONOR RELIEF OVER ‘COWARD’ KHABIB
CONOR MCGREGOR has claimed Khabib Nurmagomedov would be “dead right now” if there had been a confrontation between the pair when the Irishman hurled a metal dolly at a bus in which the Russian was sat.
In July, Mcgregor was sentenced to five days of community service in the US after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct over the April 5 incident at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Mcgregor now returns to the Octagon for the first time in almost two years on October 6 to face Nurmagomedov, who holds the lightweight title he was stripped of due to inactivity, in Las Vegas.
And the bus incident was a talking point when the fighters spoke at a fiery press conference early yesterday.
Mcgregor said: “I came back for the love of this, to come and shut this man up - a little rat, a little weasel, a little hard man in groups. A man who grows in numbers but on his own and when confronted in a similar situation, cowers away. And that’s what you saw with that little s **** on the bus. He s*** his jocks.
“Did you not see me outside the bus? I showed you my hands - no weapons. To let him know I came unarmed. Step off the bus. You talked the big game, now I’m here. He done f ****** nothing. He sat and took a s*** on that bus. Hid and cowered behind f ****** women and caused what happened to happen.
“I just thank the Lord Jesus Christ that that man had not got the balls to step foot off that bus, or that the door did not open, because if it had, this man would be dead right now. He would be in a box and I would be in a cell and we would not have this great fight ahead of us.”