Mixed Martial Arts - McGregor charged with assault in New York after rampage

By Philip O'Connor

 

FILE PHOTO - Boxing - Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Conor McGregor - Las Vegas, USA - August 26, 2017 Conor McGregor makes his entrance before the fight REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Conor McGregor has been charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief following a rampage at a UFC press event in Brooklyn on Thursday, the New York Police Department has said.

 

The 29-year-old, who became the first UFC fighter to hold two world titles simultaneously when he beat Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight belt in Manhattan in 2016, turned himself in to police on Thursday evening after the violent incident.

 

"He's been charged with assault, three counts of assault, and one count of criminal mischief," Thomas Antonetti of the NYPD told Reuters.

 

"He's still in custody, still at the police precinct until he's removed to court this morning."

 

As the UFC held a media day on Thursday ahead of the upcoming fight card at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, McGregor and his entourage entered through a side entrance and attacked a van containing other fighters.

 

Video of the fracas circulated on social media showed objects being thrown at the van, and a number of people were injured by glass fragments as windows were smashed.

 

McGregor, who previously told Reuters that he made an eye-watering 140 million dollars from his boxing match with Floyd Mayweather last August, has not fought in the Octagon since the win over Alvarez in November 2016.

 

UFC president Dana White has said that the van attack was "the most disgusting thing that ever happened in the history" of the UFC.

 

(Reporting by Philip O'Connor; editing by Sudipto Ganguly)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-4-6

Hope this pikey is banned for life . He should have stuck to tarmacing drives. The mans unstable.

I never liked this man because he has a track record of being rude and crude. There are plenty of fighters who are not arrogant, or bullies.

He is obviously exceptional at what he does but that doesn’t give him the right to act above the law, unfortunately he is not intelligent enough to realise that !!

1 hour ago, Thongkorn said:

Hope this pikey is banned for life . He should have stuck to tarmacing drives. The mans unstable.

Yeah, he could have made a mint in construction, had he just kept his head down and mouth shut. 

People who have had head injuries report more violent behavior:

 

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/8423

9 hours ago, Thongkorn said:

Hope this pikey is banned for life . He should have stuck to tarmacing drives. The mans unstable.

He might act like a pikey (Irish gypsy) from the movie Snatch but, just for the record, he's working class Dublin and was apprenticed as a plumber.

19 hours ago, Thongkorn said:

Hope this pikey is banned for life . He should have stuck to tarmacing drives. The mans unstable.

Do you even know what a Pikey is? 

39 minutes ago, Nip said:

Do you even know what a Pikey is? 

Yes usualy a person who scavenger who leaves there shit everywhere after they leave and don’t give a dam that the tax payer has to clean it up. Because they don’t pay any taxes. Most can’t speak English. They think themselves above the law. Mostly drive Round in untaxed and tested vehicles. Most have problems with there hands because they cannot help lifting other people property. Yes I know because I have had dealings with them.

27 minutes ago, Thongkorn said:

Yes usualy a person who scavenger who leaves there shit everywhere after they leave and don’t give a dam that the tax payer has to clean it up. Because they don’t pay any taxes. Most can’t speak English. They think themselves above the law. Mostly drive Round in untaxed and tested vehicles. Most have problems with there hands because they cannot help lifting other people property. Yes I know because I have had dealings with them.

I actually meant the origin of the name Pikey but your not wrong. A blight on the landscape and all unfortunate to come in contact with them. 

21 hours ago, Thongkorn said:

Hope this pikey is banned for life . He should have stuck to tarmacing drives. The mans unstable.

Lunatic

Not the first actor/athelete to go overboard in a performance. He didn't mean any harm to anyone, just part of the showmanship. Hell, if it were a movie he'd get an award of some kind. 

'roid rage?

On 06/04/2018 at 8:30 PM, Thongkorn said:

Hope this pikey is banned for life . He should have stuck to tarmacing drives. The mans unstable.

Disgraceful derogatory term.

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