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mo4ch:>‘It was like a Christmas present’: Conor McGregor details UFC 229 brawl with Team Nurmagomedov | Mo4ch News

Irish former double UFC champion Conor McGregor has spoken at length for the first time about the post-fight brawl which occurred immediately after his defeat to Russia’s Khabib Nurmagomedov in October of last year.The fight, which was the most-watched single bout in the history of the UFC, was the culmination of months of bad blood between the two lightweight standouts but despite coming up short against the Russian, McGregor told motivational speaker Tony Robbins in a recent podcast that he was satisfied with how the fight’s aftermath played out.Immediately after the fight, which Nurmagomedov won by fourth-round neck crank submission, the Russian fighter threw his mouthpiece at McGregor’s coaching team, before leaping from the cage to attack McGregor’s Jiu-Jitsu coach Dillon Danis. READ MORE: 'When Putin phoned I was surrounded by police' Khabib details UFC 229 call from presidentFrom that point, all hell broke loose. Several of Nurmagomedov’s team entered the cage with Abub…