Following a press conference promoting UFC 202 that went catastrophically wrong this afternoon, Nick Diaz, brother of headliner Nate Diaz, posted a video of a young girl saying she was hit with a bottle Conor McGregor threw. ESPN's Brett Okamoto later tweeted that she is the younger sister of someone in Nate's camp.
Nick Diaz to Conor McGregor: That's fucked up. Bro why you hitting kids with bottles? pic.twitter.com/Ji3lpJhz1f
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The press conference began despite McGregor's absence; he arrived about 16 minutes in, interrupting Nate mid-answer. Three-and-a-half minutes later, Nate got up and began to walk out as McGregor claimed there would "100 percent" be a third fight between them.
Off-camera, Nate said, "F--k your whole team. How about that?"
McGregor responded with, "F--k your whole team. (Inaudible) crackhead eses!"
As Nate headed toward an exit with Nick and his team in tow, flipping double birds, he exchanged taunts with McGregor. It culminated in Nate throwing a partially empty bottle of water at McGregor, who, along with his team, responded in kind. Nate's team answered with their own volley of beverages. McGregor also grabbed cans of Monster energy drink from the press table and hurled them toward the Diaz team, who were surrounded on all sides by security, press and spectators.
In the video Nick posted later, he's shown walking next to a young girl, whom he asks, "What happened? Did you get hit with a bottle?"
She says yes and that it was McGregor who threw it.
Nick then turns the camera back to himself and says, "Oh, that's f-----d up, Bro!; why you hittin' kids with bottles?"
Speaking with his co-worker Ariel Helwani of MMA Fighting, Marc Raimondi said no one was hit or injured.
When Nate first met McGregor in the Octagon at UFC 196 in March, they spent the first round trading shots and staying almost entirely on the feet. In the second round, Nate landed a left that rocked McGregor and disrupted his balance, ultimately leading him to shoot for a takedown on the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt. It took Nate 20 seconds from that point to submit McGregor with a rear-naked choke, ending a 15-fight win streak and handing the Irishman his first UFC loss.
The highly anticipated rematch takes place this Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
