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Conor McGregor blasts Jake Paul in now-deleted homophobic six-word tweet as YouTuber responds to rape verdict

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Conor McGregor blasts Jake Paul in now-deleted homophobic six-word tweet as YouTuber responds to rape verdict

CONOR MCGREGOR took aim at Jake Paul just hours after he was found guilty of assault.

UFC poster boy was found to have assaulted a woman – Nikita Hand – on Dublin hotel in December 2018 after a civil trial.

Conor McGregor was found guilty in a civil trial of assaulting a woman in a Dublin hotel in December 2018.

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Conor McGregor was found guilty in a civil trial of assaulting a woman in a Dublin hotel in December 2018.1 credit
The UFC star was ordered to pay Hand £206,000 in damages.

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The UFC star was ordered to pay Hand £206,000 in damages.1 credit
An Irishman took aim at Jake Paul hours after his sentencing after the YouTuber mocked him on X.

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An Irishman took aim at Jake Paul hours after his sentencing after the YouTuber mocked him on X.1 credit

McGregor was accused of “brutally raping and beating” Nikita Hand at the Beacon Hotel in the south. Dublin but insisted that they had consensual sex.

YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul, who has been locked in a war of words with McGregor for nearly four years, reached out to X in a now-deleted post to share his thoughts.

He wrote: “Dana (White) beats his wife, Conor is convicted of rape, but am I the bad guy?”

And surprisingly, just hours after the jury’s verdict, McGregor responded: “No, you’re a little gay nerd.”

Paul’s inclusion of UFC leader Dana White in McGregor’s dig was a reference to video of the MMA mogul slapping his wife Anna after a heated nightclub argument on New Year’s Eve in 2022.

White apologized for his actions and said: “You will not recover from this. You will never recover from this.”

“Like I said, for the rest of my life—no matter how long it lasts—people will call me that.”

McGregor, 36, was ordered to pay Hand £206,000 (€250,000) in damages.

Does Conor McGregor have a chance to continue his career in the UFC?

Former UFC champion Conor McGregor assaulted a woman who accused him of raping her in a Dublin hotel, a civil court jury found on Friday.

The 36-year-old man was accused of “brutally raping and beating” Nikita Hand in December 2018.

He will now have to pay Ms Hand €248,603.60 in damages.

Despite losing the case, McGregor promised to appeal.

The Irishman’s future in MMA and the UFC is now in question. He hasn’t stepped into the Octagon since July 2021, when he broke his leg and was stopped in a fight with Dustin Poirier.

That’s it SunSport Chief MMA Reporter Chisanga Malata I had to talk about the situation…

“The decision, handed down in a civil rather than a criminal court, was perhaps the biggest headache for the UFC in its 31-year history. MMA officials will now have to make a big decision about their poster boy.

“Personally, I think he will fight again. There is precedent for this. Just look at the man who fought Jake Paul last week.

“Of course, I’m talking about former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who was jailed for rape in the 1990s. He came clean and went on to have a successful career, earning millions and millions of pounds before retiring in 2005.

“Unfortunately, there is a precedent for this. But the UFC now has an important decision to make. Like I said, I think he will fight again. I think they are sticking with the plan that was announced last week after the UFC 309 press conference and they will offer him the fight at the end of 2025.

“They may have said it would happen at the end of 2025, expecting this decision to not go McGregor’s way and giving some time for it all to play out, although something of this magnitude can never be undone.”

“I believe McGregor will fight again unless Dana White and all the investors make a sensational decision and they knock their guy off the poster. But I just don’t see that happening and I see him returning to the Octagon late next year.

“The UFC will have to ask questions, and rightly so. But mostly to the man himself, Mr. McGregor.”

But the former two-division champion vowed to appeal the verdict.

He wrote on X: “I will appeal today’s decision.

Connor McGregor was seen outside the court after his guilty verdict.

“The judge’s instruction and modest award was for assault, not aggravated or exemplary damages.

“I am disappointed that the jury did not hear all the evidence that the DPP considered.

“Now I’m with my family, focused on my future.

“Thank you to all my support around the world.”

His defiant statement came after he refused to speak to waiting media as he left the High Court with his fiancée Dee Devlin in tears.

McGregor has not appeared in the UFC octagon since breaking his leg in a trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier more than three years ago.