The Irish sports star has reportedly had enough of Dublin after losing a civil court case for sexual assault in November.
Conor McGregor may be done with Ireland after the way his home country has treated him in the wake of a guilty verdict for sexual assault in civil court.
McGregor set the country alight with MMA mania during his rise to the double championship, but his behavior over recent years has tarnished his reputation at home. In the days and weeks following a 2018 hotel encounter with Nikita Hand, whispers and rumors of what happened were everywhere in the community.
Six years later, McGregor was found guilty by a jury of assaulting Hand.
“The Notorious” will pay Hand roughly $260,000 in damages and was also ordered by the court to pay an additional $1.6 million in legal fees. The Irish sports star could also face another fine after he made comments calling the proceedings a ‘kangaroo court.’
That wasn’t all he said. McGregor was busy on social media following the verdict, and his posts were full of comments on how Dublin was a dirty corrupt town full of hateful people looking to tear him down. Now we’re hearing from the Irish Mirror that Conor may be preparing to leave Ireland and move to Florida.
“Conor has been completely rattled by the devastating fallout as a result of losing the civil case,” a source close to McGregor told the mirror. “He is going to appeal the verdict to clear his name. He is genuinely very upset by it all and the manner in which he feels he has been betrayed.”
“The commercial damage in Britain and Ireland has been massive with retailers refusing to sell his stout and Proper No 12 whiskey. However, the court case has not been as damaging commercially in the United States where most of his fans are standing by him. He wants out of Ireland for the moment and to move back to the States.”
McGregor owns property in Las Vegas already but reportedly plans to relocate to Florida, which is certainly a hotbed of high level MMA activity. Moving won’t solve all his problems, though: he still plans to appeal the Hand decision, and also faces a multi-million dollar lawsuit for stiffing former BFF Artem Lobov out of Proper 12 proceeds.