With Christmas Day in the rearview mirror, it seems Conor McGregor has left the season of peace and joy behind. In a series of since-deleted posts on Twitter, “The Notorious” began again his calls for a rematch with Khabib Nurmagomedov , while also sneaking in a shot at the reigning UFC lightweight champion’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz. It started off simply enough, with a little poke left open to interpretation: “MeDanaAliGonnaGetcha” Of course, the presumed implication would be that next month’s planned meeting between Dana White and Nurmagomedov – and most likely Abdelaziz, as well – would include a pitch for a rematch between “The Eagle” and McGregor, a fight the UFC president has long claimed would be the most lucrative in the history of the sport. McGregor’s messages then took a bit of a sinister turn, though, with “The Notorious” going a little deeper into his arsenal by announcing that “Robert Earl Britton is The Man!” Britton is an alias Abdelaziz illegally used in 2001, for which he was later found guilty in Colorado of criminal impersonation and issued a 90-day unsupervised probation. Abdelaziz quoted the tweet and replied, “Wrong the #Eagle is,” including a photo taken an instant after McGregor submitted to Nurmagomedov in the fourth round of their UFC 229 headliner in October 2018 – and before the infamous ensuing post-fight brawl.
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