Conor McGregor blasted for ‘disgusting’ Prichard Colon tweet after Tyson vs Paul fight

Conor McGregor was blasted for a ‘disgusting’ tweet shared instantly pursuing Jake Paul’s triumph implicit Mike Tyson.

Paul, 27, eased to a unanimous points triumph implicit the antheral 31 years older than him in a combat booed by the 70,000 successful attendance astatine the AT&T Stadium successful Texas with millions much tuning successful connected Netflix successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday morning.

Tyson retired from boxing successful 2005 and looked each 1 of his 58 years, a shadiness of his erstwhile destructive aforesaid arsenic helium laboured astir the ringing against Paul.

The erstwhile heavyweight champion besides wore strapping connected his genu with immoderate of his wayward punches successful the contention missing the younger antheral by a foot.

Boxing fans had immense concerns for Tyson heading into a combat which was branded a ‘freakshow’ by many.

Paul, present 11-1 successful boxing, has been accused of cherry-picking mismatched opponents passim his vocation but McGregor appeared to instrumentality the gag excessively acold with a crass remark that was rapidly deleted.

‘They are eyeing Prichard Colon for adjacent opponent,’ McGregor wrote connected X.

The communicative of American-Puerto Rican boxer Colon is 1 of the sport’s biggest tragedies.  In 2015 successful a combat against Terrel Williams, Colon was repeatedly punched successful the backmost of the head, collapsing successful his dressing country aft the fight.

He was near successful a coma for 221 days aft suffering a encephalon haemorrhage, remaining a vegetative authorities with life-altering injuries. To this day, the 32-year-old receives around-the-clock attraction with heart-wrenching videos shared by his household connected societal media illustrating the calamity that is inactive felt successful the sport.

While it was swiftly deleted, boxing fans person deed retired astatine McGregor’s comment.

TalkSPORT’s Michael Benson shared a surface changeable of McGregor’s deleted station with much than 1 idiosyncratic labelling the erstwhile UFC champion a ‘scumbag’ for his comment.

‘Conor beryllium saying immoderate f****d up s**t arsenic it is but this 1 is DEFINITELY precocious up connected the list,’ different wrote.

‘He’s conscionable cringe close now. That’s disgusting.’

Boxing names past and contiguous queued up to slam Friday’s bout but successful his post-fight interview, Tyson refused to regularisation retired warring again.

‘I don’t cognize if I’m done, it depends connected the situation, Tyson said. Asked if this is the past clip boxing fans volition spot him successful the ring, helium added: ‘I don’t deliberation so. I don’t know, possibly his member [Logan Paul] next?’

MORE : Terence Crawford tells Mike Tyson helium ‘looked similar trash’ aft Jake Paul loss

MORE : How overmuch did Mike Tyson marque warring Jake Paul connected Netflix?

MORE : Mike Tyson reveals the crushed helium was biting his mitt during Jake Paul fight