At UFC 264 on July 10 former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor suffered a TKO loss to Dustin Poirier. That loss came as a result of a doctor’s stoppage due to McGregor sustaining a fractured tibia at the end of the first round.
McGregor’s immediate actions after that injury included screaming at the victor, and his wife, and threatening to have them killed in their sleep. McGregor later echoed those threats with desperate posts on social media.
Since those efforts to both secure a fourth fight with Poirier and rattle the American (something McGregor tried and failed at in the lead-up to the fight), McGregor appears to have switched gears.