Conor McGregor is in the process of being arraigned in New York following his attack on a bus full of UFC fighters on Thursday afternoon. The UFC star and an entourage of about 10 men threw dollies and barricades at the vehicle, smashing windows and sending several fighters and staff to the hospital with cuts. McGregor was charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief following the incident and surrendered to the police on Thursday night.
Footage from Friday morning showed McGregor being taken from the 78th Precinct to his arraignment in handcuffs. Scans of his mugshot leaked to the internet soon after.
#BREAKING @TheNotoriousMMA walked out of @NYPD78Pct after being charged with @barclayscenter brawl. @PIX11News #conormcgregor pic.twitter.com/YbMF8LimPg
— Anthony DiLorenzo (@ADiLorenzoTV) April 6, 2018
Here's Conor McGregor's mugshot.
Somebody put this on a shirt ASAP. pic.twitter.com/OwaH9skoyb
— Thomas Duffy (@TJDhoops) April 6, 2018
McGregor’s actions threw this weekend’s UFC 223 card into chaos. Three fights have now been cancelled from the Saturday event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Alex Caceres vs. Artem Lobov is off because Lobov was part of the McGregor gang that threw chairs and a dolly through the vehicle’s windows. Michael Chiesa vs. Anthony Pettis is off due to facial cuts Chiesa suffered due to broken glass. And Ray Borg vs. Brandon Moreno is off becuse Borg got glass fragments in his eye.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the main event between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Max Holloway was cancelled on Friday morning due to a bad weight cut on Holloway’s end. The New York athletic commission ruled Holloway medically unfit to fight, scrapping a fight that was itself a last minute replacement for a Khabib vs. Tony Ferguson fight that was called off due to a freak Ferguson knee injury. The UFC is still looking for another opponent for Khabib.
It’s been a wild week for the world of MMA to say the least. We’ll continue to update you on the situation as it evolves.
