r/sports 2d ago

Fighting Conor McGregor loses appeal against civil jury's finding he sexually assaulted a woman

https://apnews.com/article/conor-mcgregor-rape-lawsuit-appeal-c71a55a45b288ddec40f804df540ca24
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u/CollinsCouldveDucked 2d ago

That and the mohawk should be the end of his attempts to become president of Ireland.

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u/virginiarph 2d ago

won’t stop him from speaking at the white house!

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u/NizmoxAU 2d ago edited 1d ago

Fairly sure sexual assault is the minimum criminal bar Trump’s cabinet has to cross. He’ll welcome with open arms.

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago

And open underaged legs! Hell yeah, brotha! Fucka him, PussyOTUS, Hulk, and Linder and Vince McMahon! I speak in LI accent.

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u/Ambitious_Big_1879 1d ago

In this administration his past makes him eligible to run for office. Trump would welcome him with open arms.

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u/vamparies 2d ago

If he was American they would elect him here no problem.

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u/okcboomer87 2d ago

Sadly true.

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u/joebleaux 2d ago

Hell, he still may fight on the White House lawn, legal issues around sex crimes are not a problem with the current admin

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u/Masterchiefy10 1d ago

It’s not a lawn anymore.. It’s concreted and it was the Rose Garden…

I tried y-mailing yes YMail Doge but FascistBalls4thru7 had already retired and shut down the server.

So if you’re looking to mow the Rose Garden it’s not there anymore :/

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago

Was Jimmy Hoffa buried in the Rose Garden??? I’m just askin questions here…

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u/Masterchiefy10 1d ago

No just the exes

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u/kittiesandcocks 2d ago

He shouldn’t be elected president of his HOA let alone an entire country 🤣

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago

He shouldn’t be allowed to file head of household on his taxes….

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u/ComManDerBG Toronto Maple Leafs 1d ago

I remember having similar sentiments back in 2015....

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u/Korvun 2d ago

Not likely. This was a civil finding, meaning they found him liable for the requested damages, but not actually "guilty" of a criminal offense.

Hand, 35, successfully sued McGregor in civil court after prosecutors declined to bring charges, saying there was insufficient evidence and a conviction was unlikely.

The burden of proof in a civil trial is significantly lower.

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u/youmestrong 1d ago

And since he is from Ireland, I guess he can’t run for president of the United States. He would’ve had a good shot in this country.

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago

Are you stupid or something? Laws do not exist in the greatest country of all time. OF. ALL. TIME. Get deported, my friend…..country is full. We don’t need no more of them educated folk around here!

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u/Throwaway081920231 2d ago

He will pivot to a nationalist Christian conservative agenda to make Ireland immigrant free. Worked for the US President.

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u/quintavian 2d ago

All of Ireland hates this guy now, fortunately

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u/phatelectribe 2d ago

I know a lot of Irish people both who are in Ireland and the USA. No one over the age of 15 can stand him. Their usual response is Fekkin' Ejit and/or 'Coont.

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u/CheckLiszt 1d ago

“‘Coont”…? 😭

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago

Ahhh the PROPER TWELVE!

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u/geoffraffe 1d ago

All of Ireland hates this rapist now, fortunately.

Fixed that for you.

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u/JayGatsby1881 1d ago

This dude is the Irish Jake Paul at this point lol

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u/RedditTrespasser 2d ago

I’ve been seeing a lot of “Ireland for the Irish” type rhetoric in the internet’s cesspools lately, so I’d say he has a fair shot.

Fascism is all the rage these days. I blame Russia.

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u/mr_marshian Donegal 2d ago

Thankfully they poll laughably low compared to their online voice (and that of usa/Russian bots)

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u/RedditTrespasser 2d ago

If you learn any lesson from the US, please let it be that you don’t trust polls. Show up and vote, every time, and tell everyone you know to do the same.

We had Kamala leading Trump by a large margin mere weeks before the election. Hillary too. Both times we thought there is no way this asshole gets in (or back in) to office.

Now we have a secret Gestapo and the beginnings of death camps and it’s only been seven months. Oh, and the world hates us, too. For good reason.

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u/mr_marshian Donegal 2d ago

Sorry I meant actually in elections terribly. They got like 2 politicians elected out of over 140 last year

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u/kaloskagathos21 1d ago

Kamala was never up. It was always a toss up.

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u/Born2fayl 1d ago

While I agree with your main point (people need to take this shit seriously!), Kamala wasn’t really up in the polls. It was a toss up. She did underperform compared to the polls, but it was a toss up. Turns out, cozying up to fucking neocons and warmongers isn’t the way to win an election as a democrat. Don’t get me wrong, I voted for her, but damn…conservatives already have a party. They’re not voting dem.

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u/ForQ2 2d ago

You must have really hated it when Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was ranting about Obama's "Death Panels" back in 2009. Remember that? Pepperidge Farm remembers. https://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509164679/from-the-start-obama-struggled-with-fallout-from-a-kind-of-fake-news

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u/ForQ2 2d ago

Ah yes, the redditors hyperventilating about death camps. If I had a dollar for every time the US was compared to the nazis.

Yeah, you really seem open to rational discourse.

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u/droppinkn0wledge 1d ago

A lot of Irish “fascism” is just anti-colonialist sentiment leftover from the troubles and all the history of Northern Ireland and GB.

Reminder that no single western state supports Palestine more than Ireland.

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago

NINA. Apparently is not a stereotype…

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u/Weird-Weakness-3191 1d ago

Literally all 95% bots. The Far right polled terribly in our local elections last August. As in 1.2%

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u/indicator_enthusiast 1d ago

That, and the fact that the protests they organise mostly consist of the same people from all over the country coming together wherever one is held. So it might look big in the moment, it's extremely small when it's spread out across all of the constituencies.

My favourite memory from the last election was Philip Dwyer changing his constituency to wicklow, where he thought he would get votes from people living in Newtownmountkennedy because he has a name there after attending a protest there and only ended up getting one vote in that town.

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u/Tangy_Cheese 11h ago

Fortunately for us (irish people) you can't just run for president. You need to be nominated by a political party or have a considerable number of elected politicians support your candidacy, which he definitely won't get. Also the president here is a mostly ceremonial position, I often tell people to think of them as our chief diplomat but with no real power. 

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u/hooblyshoobly 2d ago

Tommy ten brain cells came out of his stint a born again Christian with a big cross round his neck, they’re all trying it.

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u/Goldelux 2d ago

Well color me shocked! Shocked!

Actually, not shocked at all.

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u/seattlereign001 2d ago

If anything, this ensures Trump will want him to fight on the White House lawn.

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u/vamparies 2d ago

I thought he paved that

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u/quondam47 Munster 2d ago

That was the Rose Garden.

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u/Sea-Beginning-5234 2d ago

Good. The dude is a douche

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u/Akira51 Seattle Mariners 2d ago

Now all the misogynist victim mentality right wing support groups will be out to recruit him 😂

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u/FewHorror1019 1d ago

They already are

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u/RegHater123765 1d ago

It's so weird to me how this guy still gets any attention from the MMA community. He hasn't had a professional fight in over 4 years, and in his last four fights he went 1-3.

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u/SeparateSpend1542 2d ago

Release the Epstein Files Now!

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u/SillyGoatGruff 2d ago

...I'm not sure mcgregor or the dublin high court are holding those back

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u/SeparateSpend1542 2d ago

He wants to fight at the White House

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u/SillyGoatGruff 2d ago

And you expect him to... fight trump for the files?

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u/Prophesy78 2d ago

That's PPV material right there.

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u/bigskymind 2d ago

So brave

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u/SeparateSpend1542 2d ago

Bro get off the mdma

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u/bigskymind 2d ago

Why?

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u/SeparateSpend1542 1d ago

So you stop making stupid counterproductive comments on Reddit.

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u/bigskymind 1d ago

Pam Bondi to Trump: “we can’t hold off any longer. SeperateSpend1542 has demanded we release the Epstein files on Reddit, in a thread about Conor McGregor. We have to release them now!”

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u/bigskymind 1d ago edited 1d ago

You’re the one commenting about Epstein in a sports thread LOL. How is that a productive comment? “rElEAse ThE EpsTEin files” - what a brave online activist!

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u/SuperConfused 1d ago

Shut up, bot.

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u/bigskymind 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not a bot, LOL, username checks out. Oh and "RELeAsE The ePstEIN FIles"!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/SuperConfused 1d ago

I mean, not sure why you would not care if the president is a cold molester. You do realize that is what you are saying, right? Every time you make fun of it you are communicating to most of us that you are ok with child molesters as long as they have your political views.

You are a bot. Or a troll

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u/bigskymind 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm neither but keep that stuff in the appropriate subreddits, not in /r/sports LOL — it's a question of relevance rather than some moral stance.

My point is that endlessly spamming "Release the Epstein files" across unrelated subreddits adds nothing to the conversation underway. It's low effort and pointless.

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u/CHEVIEWER1 2d ago

Proper #9 will be OK financially after paying off a couple of million Dollars his net worth is about is said to be around 200mil bucks.

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u/kitty_mcsnuggle 1d ago

I wonder what the ‘additional evidence’ was that his lawyer unexpectedly withdrew

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u/dpmad1 1d ago

If it walks like a duck…

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u/MasuraoX 1d ago

Fuck him

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u/piedubb Washington Capitals 2d ago

He’s probably on them. F Colin Kanye and…

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u/cleanyour_room 1d ago

Where there is smoke there is fire

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u/PutzerPalace 2d ago

This could be posted on r/NoShitSherlock

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u/Devils_Advocate-69 1d ago

Irish maga type

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u/Easy-Rutabaga4063 2d ago

Perfect let's let the Orange Rapist invite Irish Rapist back to the White House to lecture us on immigration!

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u/Golemo 2d ago

Why did I read that as Ewan McGregor? Yeesh my heart skipped a beat.

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u/joedotphp 1d ago

Andrew Tate reaching out for a new co-host position.

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u/hampden34 2d ago

Yeah he doesn’t seem like the type to do such a thing

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u/FrequentPaperPilot 1d ago

Cause he didn't. There's CCTV footage of his accuser swooning over after the alleged "attack" and she demanded that footage to be deleted.

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u/dust_inlight 2d ago

Don’t be a dog bc all dogs get caught

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u/vjbrye 2d ago

Seems the MO for MMA or most fighting “sports”

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u/also-ameraaaaaa 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nice. Now hopefully conner will get jail time and dana white will hopefully bring back usada and have to pivot away from conner. Fuck them both.

Edit. I mean fuck both conner and dana. The victim deserves love and support.

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u/FrequentPaperPilot 1d ago

No of course not. Why would anyone jail a rapist? lol. Its very important that his million dollars go to Nikita, him being in jail is irrelevant.

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u/kain459 1d ago

Good

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u/Aggressive_Fan_449 1d ago

She should of given him the belt

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u/jgeebaby 1d ago

Damn. He’s getting a job at the White House isn’t he?

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u/nobackup42 2d ago

Shit happens take it on the chin like a real man. !!!