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Irish Mirror
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Darragh Culhane

Conor McGregor calls Carl Froch a ' little scrawny pencil neck' in Twitter rant

Conor McGregor has dubbed Carl Froch a 'little scrawny pencil neck' as the world champion boxer appeared on Sky's coverage of Anthony Joshua versus Oleksandr Usyk.

The pair meet in the hotly anticipated rematch on Saturday evening and Carl Froch was on punditry duties.

And McGregor reignited a war or words with Froch as he took to social media to take aim at the Englishman.

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He said: "That froch tick little scrawny pencil neck I’ll grab his head and twist it clean off at a 1er with my bare hands. Little Wally of a thing I’ll Slap you around you little toffee nose toss pot."

Froch has in the past taken aim at McGregor and recently said he 'can't punch the skin off a rice pudding'.

The interview from Froch took place earlier this year and it is the first time that McGregor has responded.

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