Prizefighting is about drama, and the main event of UFC 229 has plenty of it. Even without his usual crowd to bolster his talking points, Conor McGregor took full advantage of the mic at September’s press conference. He called out Khabib Nurmagomedov’s manager Ali Abdelaziz for being a deadbeat dad; he criticized Nurmagomedov’s connections to Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, calling him a “lick-arse rat”; both men decried one another and their respective teams for their actions (or lack thereof) leading up to, during, and after McGregor’s infamous (or should we say “Notorious”) bus attack; McGregor even offered the Muslim Nurmagomedov a glass of his new whiskey (an official sponsor of UFC 229!
UFC 229 breakdown: How Khabib Nurmagomedov dominates his opponents
