Khabib Says Conor McGregor’s Deleted Tweets About Late Father Show ‘How Dirty’ He Is

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After Dustin Poirier defeated Conor McGregor at UFC 264, when McGregor broke his leg, former UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov tweeted that “Good always defeats evil.”

McGregor responded in a since-deleted tweet that “Covid is good and father is evil?” That appeared to be in reference to Nurmagomedov’s father Abdulmanap dying from COVID-19 complications last year.

On Wednesday, Nurmagomedov responded to McGregor’s comments during an appearance on the Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson show (34:40 mark):

“When he talk about this—you know, only evil can talk about your father, wife, kids, religion. If you’re normal human, you’re never gonna talk about this stuff. For me, I think he post this tweet, like, drunk too much or do something. And the next day, he always delete these tweets. When he become normal life and says, ‘Oh, look what I did.’ Then he delete. This is my opinion what he do all the time.

At that point, Tyson added the opinion that everything goes while promoting a fight. While Nurmagomedov agreed with that idea, McGregor and Nurmagomedov aren’t currently promoting a matchup.

Nurmagomedov continued:

“When someone is not with us—he is not even alive—this shows what you have inside. This shows how dirty you are. When you one of the best in the world and you come and you punch someone who is like 70 years old, like an old man, this shows your heart. This shows who you are inside, how dirty you are. When you have parents and you have kids, how can you show yourself like this? I don’t understand why his close people don’t go, ‘Hey, what’s going on?'”

This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.

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