UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski has jumped to defend social media star Hasbulla Magomedov after Conor McGregor branded him "inbred" in a Twitter tirade.
The meme sensation has been in Australia on a meet-and-greet tour, and has managed to spend time with sport stars like Volkanovski and basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal. He has been seen engaging in pranks with the pair, including punching O'Neal and smeering Volkanovski's face with a burger he was eating during a shoot.
McGregor, however, has not been amused by the Russian's antics and declared that he would like to kick him like a Gaelic football in a series of deleted tweets. The former featherweight and lightweight champion has a fierce rivalry with Khabib Nurmagomedov, one of the first celebrities to discover Hasbulla, and is not a fan of the 3'4" influencer.