Conor McGregor has lashed out True Geordie online, hurling a tirade of insults towards the Newcastle-born YouTube star in a vicious Twitter rant.
Former double UFC champion McGregor, who is known for his sharp tongue and trash talk, first targeted fellow fighter 'The Immortal' Matt Brown online, before soon after sending a public voice note to the Geordie - real name Brian Davis.
It comes after 36-year-old Davis highlighted concern for the Irish brawler, after a string of recent interviews at his Dublin pub, The Black Forge Inn - where he met with a number of journalists including MMA guru Ariel Helwani to discuss his UFC comeback.
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In a video entitled 'Conor McGregor's WORRYING interviews...', True Geordie took to The Pain Game's YouTube channel to discuss the 34-year-old 'Notorious One' and his recent media appearances - claiming that the way he has been speaking is 'worrying'.
In the video, Davis looks at an earlier video, as well as a more recent one from the Ireland-based inn, claiming of the latter: "The difficulty that Conor McGregor has in even just finishing a sentence here is very bizarre. So there's a constant licking of the lips throughout all of these interviews, and he can't keep his attention on Ariel Helwani for two seconds.
"Again with the strange mouth movements constantly - his mouth can't stop going here. What was that man? The guy is not making any f***ing sense here.
"Again with the constant licking of the mouth. I'm laughing but it's not funny really, they guy's just said I'm not drinking today...how the f*** is he acting like this, do you know what I'm saying? For a start, I was hoping he was drunk."
Toward the end of the video, Davis would critique that McGregor isn't taking his UFC resurgence seriously - citing how he isn't 'living the life'.
He added: "You're f***ing not taking it seriously, you're not living the life. And this is after years of inactivity, after a major career-ending arguably injury, and he is behaving like this on the run up to another fight against a killer in Michael Chandler.
"If you've ever wanted to put all of your money on a fighter, it's Michael Chandler right now because everything you're seeing from Conor McGregor is a guy who looks out of shape, he looks bloated - and that's coming from me I know - compared to Conor normally who's chiselled and diced. He doesn't look like he's taking this fight seriously at all.
"Some people might pick at what I'm saying here and think that I'm being harsh, he's just having a good time, he's just enjoying himself. Conor's always looked a good time, but I've never seen him this bad. We've seen athletes before who've gone down that road and when they're chasing the thrill of the crowd and the adulation, and no one enjoyed it more than Conor McGregor."
It comes as Conor prepares for his comeback fight against 'Iron' Michael Chandler this year after coaching against the highly-touted Lightweight during season 31 of The Ultimate Fighter - with the first episode of the season airing in the early hours of this morning.
Geordie's video, which has amassed almost 300,000 views and more than 2,400 comments since it was posted a week ago - sparked outrage from the very man who it was centred around, with McGregor soon taking aim at the YouTube star in a since deleted audio Tweet to his 9.9million followers.
In it, he said: "Mr Oestrogen, what's happening? B***** t***, fat f***ing b**** t***. Who the f*** are you? You little burns victim looking thing? F*** me, man. Who scalded you with a kettle you fat f***? You fat nobody.
"You little feminine p**** of a thing, I f*** p****, yeah? Keep my name out your mouth you stupid c***. Sick of seeing your fat burned face. Scaldy, fat oestrogen head.
"Oh my god, you can't understand what I'm saying can you not, pal? You've got subtitles under the f***ing thing saying exactly what I'm saying. So what are you saying you little fat no name?"
Conor McGregor has a professional mixed-martial arts record of 22 wins and six losses. His last fight came in the form of a highly-anticipated trilogy rubber match against old foe Dustin Poirier in July 2021.
He would lose that fight via a doctor's stoppage in round one, after a freak accident which saw his leg snap at the end of the first five minutes of action.
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