Russian supermarket's got jokes, puts 'Conor McGregor' label on chicken

Khabib Nurmagomedov received a hero’s welcome when he returned to Russia following his UFC 223 win to claim the undisputed lightweight title, so maybe this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise:

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That’s right. In the clip above from mikala.tv’s Instagram page, that’s a whole refrigerated chicken in a Russian supermarket labeled “Conor McGregor” – or ????? ????????? in Russian.

The dig at the recently stripped UFC lightweight champion is inspired, of course, by Nurmagomedov (26-0 MMA, 10-0 UFC), who’s been calling McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) a chicken ever since UFC 205, when he referred to him as a “chicken who tapped” in reference to his submission loss to Nate Diaz.

It’s been “Conor McGregor chicken” this, “Conor McGregor chicken” that ever since. And then McGregor went on to endorse a chicken sandwich for Burger King, and now, yeah, Conor McGregor whole chickens are being sold in Russia.

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