When a client walked into his shop last week asking for a Conor McGregor tattoo, Steve Butcher had a vision of what he wanted the piece to look like.
“I really wanted to do one of Conor where he had a nice shirt on, his glasses on and he’s smiling, looking like a rich guy,” Butcher told MMA Fighting. “Because I love that about him, that cockiness about him. He wasn’t going for it.”
The customer, Luke Lorenzen, wanted his McGregor tattoo to be “The Notorious” in “fight mode,” Butcher said. So, that’s what the famed artist from New Zealand — known for his brilliant sports portraits — ended up doing.