Conor McGregor finds himself with yet one more feud on his palms, this time with one in all his countrymen.
Eire’s Paul Hughes shined in his struggle with light-weight champion Usman Nurmagomedov this previous Saturday at UFC Dubai, the place he narrowly misplaced a majority resolution that had a number of fighters—together with McGregor—touting Hughes because the true victor. That good will seems to have dissipated shortly following post-fight feedback from the bout captured by Anatomy of a Fighter.
After the struggle, Hughes is seen talking to longtime McGregor rival Khabib Nurmagomedov, telling him, “I’m not like this different man. I’m my very own man.” McGregor caught wind of what gave the impression to be a reference to him and launched right into a sequence of social media insults geared toward Hughes.
“Too proper, you’re not,” McGregor wrote in response to Hughes’ feedback. He later went on to make gross assaults referring to Hughes being from Northern Eire, telling him to “get that flag off you, you little know-what-you-are c*nt from up there.”
McGregor later deleted these feedback together with a number of others.
On Wednesday, Hughes responded to McGregor, praising him, whereas additionally questioning the place McGregor is at from a psychological standpoint.
“[McGregor], at all times mentioned you had been the GOAT, paid homage at each alternative,” Hughes wrote. “However coming at my Irish identification simply reveals the place your head is at.”
Possible not serving to the scenario is McGregor’s contentious relationship with the Nurmagomedov household. Mcgregor famously challenged Khabib Nurmagomedov for the UFC light-weight title at UFC 229 in October 2018, the fruits of a feud that noticed Nurmagomedov submit McGregor within the fourth spherical. Nurmagomedov then sparked a brawl afterwards by attacking McGregor’s cornerman Dillon Danis, leading to a number of fighters becoming a member of the altercation and later being suspended and fined.
Nurmagomedov retired in 2020, however the dangerous blood between he and McGregor has regularly come up in interviews and on social media. On the opposite facet, Hughes has already earned the respect of the Nurmagomedov household, with Khabib inviting him to return to Dagestan (Hughes welcomed the concept, however desires a rematch with Usman Nurmagomedov first).
McGregor, a former two-division UFC champion, has not fought since breaking his leg in a loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. He was lately discovered answerable for sexual assault in a civil case tied to a 2018 incident in Dublin, and can also be going through one other civil swimsuit stemming from an alleged sexual assault at a Miami Warmth sport in 2023.
