CONOR McGREGOR tried to deflect jokes about his awful pitch at the Chicago Cubs baseball game by boasting that he was richer than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Notorious also trolled 50 Cent after Twitter fans compared his embarrassing effort to that of the US rapper's.

UFC star McGregor was a special guest at Wrigley Field for the Cubs' Major League Baseball clash with the Minnesota Twins this week.

But it all went wrong as the Irishman stepped up to the plate to throw the ceremonial first pitch.

A dapper-looking McGregor, who was wearing an expensive-looking suit, missed the receiver by a country mile, so much so the ball nearly hit a fan in the crowd.

He received plenty of stick online, but one fan who asked whether McGregor's was worse than 50 Cent's famous stinker appeared to touch a nerve.

The rap legend's was equally inaccurate but arguably much weaker.

McGregor posted videos of the two and wrote: "The audacity to compare mine with this p***!

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"Picture to picture alone buries this. Mine, bar the accuracy, was the most powerful and fastest first pitch of any of these other athletes/ artist over the years. No comparison."

And then it took a turn with McGregor mentioning his superior ranking on the Forbes richlist.

He continued: "Smoke them up and down that Forbes I do. Get Messi over. Smoked. Cris. Smoked. Federer. Doubled. All time Most Power!

"Put me in the Wrigley hall of fame for that rocket launch. Beside some of that nice red brick. Mahogany Oak Frame. Wimbledon lines in the grass.

"The great Wrigley Field reminds me of the grounds on my land in Ireland. Impeccable."

And then another change in direction saw McGregor bring up the expensive looking watch he had on his pitching arm that nearly came off as he launched the ball.

He continued: "Anyway back to the pitch. Venom. Composure. Balance!

"The gold bar of Patek almost came flying off me it was that fast and powerful. I’d take it back to @patekphilippe for adjusting but this watch is now discontinued.

"A rare. I Bought for 80k in Weirs jeweler of Ireland and today it is worth close to 500k. And going up.

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"Fifty has a nice Hublot too. Big Bang. Small bucks 50cent.

"One has power. One is the director of media relations for some show called Power.

"You know what it is. The Mac in Chicago! @tidlsport #tidltour."

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