- An Irish bar owner named Sean Rice has branded Conor McGregor a “scumbag lowlife” afterrecent CCTV footage appeared to show the former UFC champion punch an elderly man in a Dublin pub.
- Rice, who owns the Salty Shamrock bar in Florida, filmed himself pouring numerous bottles of the fighter’s Proper No. Twelve whiskey down the toilet while repeatedly insulting him.
- “We will discard his whiskey in a fashion that’s only fitting to his behavior,” the bar owner said in anaccompanying message on Facebook.
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Conor McGregor has been branded a “scumbag lowlife” by an Irish bar owner who filmed himself pouring the former UFC champion’s Proper No. Twelve whiskey down the toilet.
Ina Facebook post, Sean Rice, who owns the Salty Shamrock bar in Florida, also said the Dublin-born fighter was “not a true representative of the Irish people.”
Rice’s video came in response to therecent CCTV footage leaked by TMZ that appeared to show McGregor throwing a left fist at an older man in a Dublin pub.
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“That’s the lowlife there that we’ve all supported,” Rice said to a photo of McGregor hanging just above the toilet as he prepared to flush away the $34-a-bottle liquor.
“All right guys, get that in the toilet, cause that’s where his whiskey belong right now. Proper No. Twelve to hell with it — it will never be sold at this bar.”
Rice added: “That’s where McGregor’s whiskey belongs, the scumbag lowlife.”
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Rice’s video is just one example of the backlash McGregor has faced in recent days after the video of his appearing to attack a man in a Dublin pub surfaced.
Dana White, the UFC’s president, told “The Jim Rome Show” on Thursday that “it won’t end well” for McGregor should be continue with his worrying pattern of behavior outside the ring.
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Sen. Catherine Noone of Dublin alsotold the Irish Sun that she thought McGregor should be punished heavily over the incident because of his “unique ability in the area of fighting.”
McGregorannounced his retirement from MMA in March butis expected to return to the sport in the next year.
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