Paulie Malignaggi thought he and Conor McGregor had buried the hatchet after their well-publicized second sparring session, but two days later he left the camp after photographs of their session were leaked.
McGregor quipping about having “some good ones (photographs)” after the retired boxer specifically asked him not to post pictures of their sparring sessions made him slightly uneasy.
The day after the spar, Malignaggi claimed that McGregor sent him a direct message on Twitter with both of the pictures that would later be at the forefront of the controversy, without any text to accompany them.