A wolf in black sweats prowled the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn on April 6th. Manic and swaggering was Conor McGregor as he lead his pack through the bowels of the arena looking not for prey, but to make a point.
Days earlier one of McGregor’s den-mates had been surrounded, humiliated. A patronizing squeeze on the scruff of his neck had told the world that Khabib Nurmagomedov, the undefeated Eagle of the North Caucasus, thought the lowly Russian Hammer Artem Lobov — an adopted Irishman — was beneath him.
The tableau was beamed across the globe, reaching Dublin.