This fucking guy, you can’t take him anywhere. Not to the corner pub. Not to the VMAs. Definitely not to the Fontainebleu. And, apparently, not even to party with some famous DJ in Rome.
Fucking Conor McGregor, man. Here we thought that maybe confining him to a rascal scooter for a while would at least cut down on the number of crimes he gets accused of. What we failed to factor in, however, was that once his leg healed up enough to allow him to limp around on a cane he would inevitably head back out on another one of his vacations. And damned if a Conor McGregor vacation ain’t the surest way to raise the crime rate in Europe.
News of the latest incident broke over the weekend, when McGregor was accused of punching Italian DJ Franceso Facchinetti in the face more or less completely out of the blue as they were hanging out in Rome. According to Facchinetti and his wife, they were chilling with McGregor and his crew, having a nice time, when for no apparent reason McGregor started throwing them bungalows. According to Facchinetti’s wife, Wilma, the whole shit was about as unprovoked as it gets.
“He was inviting us to another party,” Wilma Faissol wrote on social media after the incident. “Francesco said, ‘Okay, let’s go’ and (McGregor) hit him.”
Now what the hell kind of way is that to act? Facchinetti, who is apparently kind of a big deal in Italy, had a swollen lip to show off on Instagram afterwards. He said his nose was broken and that he plans to sue McGregor. His wife added, by way of public warning, that McGregor would be in Italy until October 26 and advised people to avoid him if they see him.
“Don’t go near him and ask for autographs because he is an unstable and dangerous person,” she wrote.
So that’s what it’s come to. Once an international superstar, now treated like a rabid dog in godawful overpriced polos. Real nice.
It is at this point that we must ask: What the fuck, man? How did you turn into such a joke? Don’t you know that it’s a bad enough look for pro fighters to go around laying hands on regular people, but it’s an even worse look when you do it between ass-kickings served up by their peers?
Throwing a drink at Machine Gun Kelly is one thing. Seems a little Real Housewives-ish, but whatever. When two attention-seeking fame-whores occupy the same red carpet at the same time, we expect someone’s Gucci loafers to get stepped on every now and then.
But here we are, what, a month later? McGregor is running around Rome with his family and he hauls off and hits some Italian DJ who, according to the one account we’ve heard so far, was guilty only of being willing to kick it? I mean, look at this guy, running around these Italian streets talking about “I love pizza.” That’s the guy you want to haul off and punch at 2:30 a.m.? That’s you being some gangster tough guy?
But then, what else do we expect? It’s not like McGregor has faced any real consequences for any of his bullshit so far.
Remember when he punched some old guy minding his own business in the pub? Remember how it was only when the rest of us saw the surveillance video that he claimed to be sorry for it? Remember how he threw a goddamn hand truck through the window of a bus filled with UFC fighters, resulting in injuries to several people and the cancellation of a couple bouts on that week’s fight card? Remember about a dozen other various crimes and misdeeds, up to and including multiple sexual assault allegations?
And what happens each time. He ends up writing a check. In extreme situations he may even have to say he’s sorry in public. UFC President Dana White has to go from pretending to care how UFC fighters behave to saying shit like “I got 700 lunatics under contract here” just to excuse McGregor’s bullshit. (Which, hey, you must really love that if you’re one of the UFC fighters under contract who doesn’t act a damn fool all the time, since now the UFC boss just went and said ‘hey they’re all unhinged psychos’ all so he had an excuse to do nothing about the richest brat on the roster.)
For crying out loud, a couple years after getting arrested in Miami for smashing and then stealing some dude’s phone he was GIVEN THE KEY TO THE CITY for no apparent reason. Meaningful consequences for his own actions must be a totally foreign concept at this point.
So now this man is running around punching DJs. And not even for a good reason! You want to punch a DJ, shit, start with that dude at UFC events who keeps playing his own garbage version of “Hotel California” that no one but him seems to enjoy. Instead you’re like, ‘hey do you want to go to a party with me?’ Then bombing on anyone dumb enough to say yes. The fuck is that?
Guess what we’re saying is, MMA deserves a better class of bad boy hooligan. If you’re going to wild out in the club, at least make it seem fun. If you’re going to throw drinks at celebrities, make sure you don’t need someone to pick up your cane for you afterwards. Punch someone who’s got it coming, and who is in a position to punch back. Or better yet, restrict your punching to the people who have agreed to it in advance for money, since that is YOUR WHOLE FUCKING JOB.
Instead, he’s basically paying people after the fact all so he can punch them when he’s feeling froggy in the club late at night. That’s the opposite of how the money is supposed to flow when you’re a pro fighter! But then, when you can’t land the left hand in the cage maybe you have to look for chances to land it in the club. That’s not totally sad or anything.
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