When Conor McGregor landed in New York City to take part in the UFC 229 press conference, many expected the brash Irishman to provide some entertaining banter in an attempt to promote his upcoming fight against UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. However, few anticipated that the former two-division champion would call Nurmagomedov’s father a coward, his manager a “terrorist snitch,” or make light of the shady figures linked to the current UFC champion.
During the course of the press conference, which took place at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, McGregor took aim at Nurmagomedov by making references to Ziyavudin Magomedov, the Russian oligarch who sponsored Nurmagomedov until his arrest on embezzlement charges earlier this year: “When money got pumped into your camp by that little scumbag that’s now in the little 8×10 cell, you thought you were a don.