Conor McGregor has handed himself into police, a spokesman confirmed, after he was accused of attacking a bus carrying fighters leaving a media event ahead of UFC223 this weekend.
McGregor and his entourage allegedly entered the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, New York and tossed a hand truck at a bus, causing a minor injury to a passenger, Sophia Mason, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department, told the New York Times.
McGregor surrendered to police at the department’s 78th Precinct, but had not been charged as of late Thursday as police continued their investigation, a spokesman told Reuters.
Video footage circulated on social media showed McGregor running in a loading area and picking up an item which was thrown at a window on the back of the bus.
Clips of video shot from inside the van showed an object hitting and cracking the vehicle’s windshield before the driver reversed away.
The van contained Russian lightweight contender Khabib Nurmagomedov and other fighters as they prepared to leave.
“This is the most disgusting thing that has ever happened in the history of the company,” UFC president Dana White told website MMA Junkie.
Nurmagomedov is due to face Max Holloway in a showdown for McGregor’s belt, which he won in 2016 but never defended, and White has said the winner of Saturday’s bout will be crowned undisputed champion.
Earlier in the week, Nurmagomedov confronted Artem Lobov, the 29-year-old McGregor’s Russian friend, teammate and sparring partner, in a hotel in New York, an incident which may have provoked the Irish fighter.
White subsequently told reporters at the venue that Lobov would not be allowed to fight Alex Caceres as scheduled on Saturday.
