By: Stephen Hardy-Delaney
Conor McGregor finds himself in trouble again as he is charged with assault from his bar punch in Dublin, Ireland this past April.
The former UFC Featherweight and Lightweight champion is due in court October 11, in Dublin, Ireland according to McGregor’s spokesperson Karen Kessler who told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani.
McGregor finds himself facing 6 months of prison time if convicted with the assault with a fine of $1,646 or both according to The Independent.
The assault took place April 6 at The Marble Arch pub in Dublin where cameras captured McGregor sucker-punching a man in his 50s for allegedly turning down his Proper No. 12 whiskey which McGregor has been marketing for the past two years most noticeably making its first big appearance at his post-fight press conference against Floyd Mayweather.
McGregor would later make an appearance this past August on ESPN by showing remorse for his unacceptable behavior in an interview with Ariel Helwani.
“I was in the wrong,” McGregor said. “That man deserved to enjoy his time in the pub without having it end the way it did. … I tried to make amends, and I made amends back then. But it doesn’t matter. I was in the wrong. I must come here before you and take accountability and take responsibility. I owe it to the people that have been supporting me. I owe it to my mother, my father, my family. I owe it to the people who trained me in martial arts. That’s not who I am. That’s not the reason why I got into martial arts or studying combat sports. The reason I got into it was to defend against that type of scenario.”
“I must get my head screwed on and just get back in the game and fight for redemption, retribution, respect — the things that made me the man I am,” McGregor told ESPN in August. “And that’s what I will do.”
Conor McGregor has not fought since his last fight where he faced defeat at the hands of his bitter rival and undefeated lightweight champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 in October 2018. The former double-champ has found himself in a series of issues outside the octagon, but this could be the one that does it for him.
UFC President Dana White had confirmed earlier this year that McGregor will indeed fight this year even after McGregor’s retirement drama where we saw him tweet his retirement, but the Irishman has since refuted that he is retired and is looking for the perfect matchup. But we shall see how this assault charge shall affect his long-awaited return to the UFC octagon.
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