Conor McGregor has been taken into police custody on suspicion of attacking fellow UFC superstar, Khabib Nurmagomedov’s bus.
As the media day wrapped up on the upcoming UFC 223 event, McGregor and his entourage of 30 men crashed the Barclays Centre yesterday afternoon, April 5, attacking a bus and leaving UFC lightweight fighter Michael Chiesa injured.
McGregor was arrested at 10:23pm Eastern time according to Ariel Helwani – a respected UFC journalist:
29-year-old McGregor has since been charged on suspicion of multiple crimes, all pending at the time of writing, according to MMA Fighting on SBN, after he’s said to have turned himself in.
The Notorious, as he is aptly named, was held overnight at the 78th precinct in Brooklyn, New York, just a couple of blocks away from the Barclay Centre where the altercation took place.
Reports suggest McGregor was taken into custody through a side door with no one seeing him enter the precinct.
McGregor and his entourage swarmed the bus belonging to Khabib Nurmagomedov, who was involved in an altercation with Artem Lobov, one of McGregor’s training partners, earlier this week.
It’s alleged chairs were thrown at the bus, causing glass windows to smash.
UFC President Dana White has now confirmed Chiesa was injured during the attack and is currently in hospital.
Reports say he sustained cuts to his face which did not need stitches.
Ray Borg – a flyweight MMA fighter who was sitting by Chiesa at the time of the attack – was also taken to a local hospital, after glass apparently hit his eye, sources say.
Dana White released a full statement, saying:
There is a warrant out for Conor McGregor’s arrest. They are looking for him right now. His plane can not take off. He can not leave the state of New York.
He will be grounded. I am assuming eventually if they do don’t catch him he will hand himself in. You can imagine he is going to be sued beyond belief. This was a real bad career move for him.
Do you want to be in business with Conor McGregor right now? I don’t think anybody is going to want him right now.
He continued:
I think everybody is going to be pretty disgusted. Listen, if you don’t like Khabib then fight him. You can do it legally.
This fight is happening Saturday we could have done it. You could have done it within the rules of fighting.
But you want to grab 30 friends and come down here and do what you did today.
It is disgusting. I don’t know if he is on drugs or whatever his deal is. This is a guy who just had a baby.
Three fights – Chiesa v Anthony Pettis, Ray Borg v Brandon Moreno, and Alex Caceres v Lobov – have all been cancelled by the UFC in light of recent events.
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