Conor McGregor loses huge $500,000 bet in just three minutes of Francis Ngannou’s MMA return fight

CONOR McGREGOR mislaid $500,000 successful conscionable 3 minutes aft backing Francis Ngannou to LOSE his MMA return.

Ngannou made his cage comeback aft 2 years distant against 6ft 8in Brazilian Renan Ferreira successful Saudi Arabia.

And it came conscionable 7 months aft helium was brutally knocked retired successful the boxing ringing by Anthony Joshua successful 2 rounds.

McGregor whacked a immense $500,000 (£380,000) connected Ferreira and said: "Hello, folks, The Notorious Conor McGregor here.

"Fight night, combat night, combat night… the Mac is backmost with his winning bets.

"I person a 100 per cent winning ratio connected these bet. Ngannou is losing by KO tonight.

"12/5 the Brazilian is to sound him retired and I’m putting fractional a cardinal connected it and I’m going to triumph backmost $1.7million. That’s it.

"It’s a ruthless concern and I’m a ruthless man."

But contempt McGregor's hot-streak, it came to a crashing extremity successful conscionable a round.

Ngannou, 38, took Ferreira, 34, down earlier hammering him with vicious crushed and lb till the referee had seen enough.

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It sealed a palmy instrumentality to MMA for Ngannou and got him disconnected to winning ways nether the Professional Fighters League.

And it was besides Ngannou's archetypal combat and triumph since the tragic decease of his 15-month-old lad Kobe.

He tearfully dedicated the triumph to Kobe and said: "I can't deliberation astir thing different than my son, Kobe.

"I lone took this combat due to the fact that of him, I took the combat for him. I anticipation they tin retrieve his sanction due to the fact that without Kobe, we wouldn't beryllium present tonight. I wouldn't person fought."