Conor McGregor punches a man in a club — again — and is anyone even surprised anymore?
Stop me if you've heard this one before: Conor McGregor was just caught on camera punching a man in a club. Twice, in fact. Because apparently the lesson he learned from punching an older fellow in a Dublin pub all those years ago was that it only makes you look worse when the other guy shrugs off your once-feared left hand and goes back to his pint, so you might as well clock him again.
This latest incident happened early Tuesday morning in a club on the Spanish island of Ibiza, according to The Sun. If you want to know just how far McGregor has fallen, note that the story identifies him as an 'ex-UFC star.'
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There's also a quote in the story from an unnamed witness who said that there did not appear to be any 'consequences for Conor, but the guy he punched was taken away and I didn't see him again.'
Which, yeah, don't that just say it all?
At this point it would almost be more newsworthy if McGregor went on vacation and didn't hurt anybody. Then again, can you even call it vacation when the guy doesn't really do anything? McGregor made millions from becoming a star in the UFC and then slapping his name on a whiskey brand that he later sold, which now wants nothing to do with him. Ever since, he's been a professional problem child the world over, with accusations often followed by legal charges trailing behind wherever he goes.
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At this point it takes longer to scroll through the 'charges and controversies' section of his Wikipedia page than the 'professional mixed martial arts career' portion. That discrepancy is likely to continue, since there's only one of those sections that he still seems interested in adding on to.
McGregor hasn't done the kind of fighting he gets paid for since 2021, when he suffered a broken leg and a TKO loss at the hands of Dustin Poirier at UFC 264. He was supposed to return against Michael Chandler last summer, but a devastating injury to his pinky toe forced him to pull out.
Since then, he's been found liable for sexual assault in his home country of Ireland, a nation he has also insisted he will soon lead as president. He also had a lawsuit filed against him earlier this year for an alleged sexual assault at a Miami Heat game in 2023. You might remember his appearance at that game since he also punched a mascot, who then had to be treated for his injuries at the hospital later that night.
All of this is in addition to his many other crimes and misdemeanors, like that time he threw a hand truck through the window of a bus filled with fellow fighters in New York. That, like this most recent club incident, was caught on video. So was that sucker-punch on a pub patron in Dublin. So was the incident where he snatched a man's phone and stomped on it outside a Florida nightclub in 2019.
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The other thing they have in common is that McGregor has suffered no meaningful consequences for any of it. He's paid out fines and settlements, sure. But the fact that he keeps doing this — and doesn't even seem to care that he's doing it on video — shows how much he fears being caught at it again.
The Dublin sexual assault case was the closest he's come to feeling any real pain as a result of his own actions. Everyone from video game makers to the whiskey brand owners to the people who put up a likeness of him in their wax museum all cut ties with him after that. Not the UFC, though. Those doors still seem open to him, if he ever rediscovers a willingness to punch someone who's ready and willing to punch back.
McGregor is a colossal embarrassment to this sport, but that's nothing new. That's been our reality for several years now. He's the worst of all worlds. He's a fighter who doesn't fight, except when he's not supposed to. He was the biggest star in UFC history, and the association is still strong enough that he can continue to heap shame onto MMA while offering it nothing in return.
Maybe the best we can hope for is that as these incidents become more common and even the hint of a UFC return becomes less plausible, eventually he'll become an embarrassment only to himself. It could be that we're almost there. They are calling him an 'ex-UFC star' now, after all.
That's a label that's hard to argue with, since he's certainly not a future one.
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