Conor McGregor taunted his former friend and Russian native Artem Lobov during a weekend of chaos in Moscow, triggered by the Wagner mercenary mutiny.
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s troops were just 120 miles from Moscow before he called off the uprising after a deal brokered with the Kremlin.
The image of Vladimir Putin’s iron grip on Moscow has been dented by images of the private army leaving Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city.