Conor McGregor allegedly punches elderly man at Irish pub as Dublin police investigate April 2019 incident
- ‘The Notorious’ appears to throw a punch at patron who refuses a glass of McGregor’s personal Irish whiskey brand in a Dublin bar
- UFC president Dana White compares McGregor’s personal troubles to Mike Tyson and admits ‘it’s pretty bad’
Conor McGregor has come under fire again after a video emerged online of him appearing to strike an elderly patron at a pub who refused a shot of his personal whiskey brand, an incident police in Dublin are believed to be investigating.
The UFC star has not fought since last October when he suffered a fourth-round submission loss to lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. But he is reported to have got into a scrap at the Marble Arch Pub in his native Ireland in April this year.
The footage appears to show McGregor offering fellow drinkers at the bar a shot of his “Proper No. Twelve” Irish whiskey, a brand he launched in 2018.
McGregor puts a glass down in front of an elderly man sitting at the bar, but the man puts the glass down on one of the drip mats in front of him. Seemingly annoyed, McGregor puts another glass in front of him, but the man does the same thing, refusing the whiskey.
The former lightweight and featherweight champion appears to have words with the man, before pouring the whiskey into several glasses. He makes a toasts to other patrons who have not refused the whiskey, drinks some himself, puts his glass down and then, in the footage, he appears to throw a punch with his left hand before being pulled away by others at the bar.
UFC president Dana White said during an appearance on The Jim Rome Show on Thursday that McGregor’s behaviour was “pretty bad” – but he did not dispute it.