Conor McGregor makes announcement on future fight plans after losing assault case

Conor McGregor was past week recovered to person assaulted Nikita Hand successful a edifice successful 2018 with the UFC prima present required to wage implicit £200,000 successful damages

Conor McGregor insists helium volition instrumentality to the UFC aft losing his battle lawsuit past week.

McGregor indispensable wage Nikita Hand implicit £200,000 successful damages aft a assemblage successful Dublin recovered that helium had assaulted her successful a edifice successful 2018. Ms. Hand accused the erstwhile UFC champion of raping her and aboriginal wept arsenic she said justness had been done. McGregor has not fought for implicit 3 years and pulled retired of his combat with Michael Chandler this summer.

The UFC has yet to remark connected the lawsuit but reports suggest McGregor volition beryllium allowed to combat successful 2025. And successful a connection released past night, the 36-year-old, who has 2 fights near connected his contract, appeared to corroborate helium intends to return.

"People privation to perceive from me, I needed time. I cognize I made mistakes. Six years ago, I should person ne'er responded to her outreaches," helium wrote. "I should person unopen the enactment down. I should ne'er person stepped retired connected the pistillate I emotion the astir successful the world. That’s each connected me. As overmuch arsenic I regret it, everything that happened that nighttime was consensual and each the witnesses contiguous swore to that nether oath.

"I person instructed my ineligible squad to entreaty the decision. I can’t spell backmost and I volition determination forward. I americium beyond grateful to my family, friends and supporters each implicit the satellite who person stayed by my side. That’s it. No more. Getting backmost to the gym- the combat crippled awaits!"

McGregor's connection comes aft a fashionable video crippled developer has decided to propulsion contented featuring combatant from sale. The Irish jock has featured successful aggregate video games, including voice-acting a quality bearing his likeness successful further downloadable contented successful the Hitman series. McGregor's quality featured arsenic a people for the player-controlled assassin successful the game.

IO Interactive, the Danish developer and steadfast of Hitman, said successful a statement: “In airy of the caller tribunal ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the determination to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effectual immediately. We instrumentality this substance precise earnestly and cannot disregard its implications. Consequently, we volition statesman removing each contented featuring Mr McGregor from our storefronts starting today.”

McGregor had faced an accusation that helium “brutally raped and battered” Ms Hand astatine a edifice successful southbound Dublin successful December 2018. The Irish sports prima antecedently told the tribunal helium had consensual enactment with Ms Hand successful a penthouse astatine the Beacon Hotel. Ms Hand was taken successful an ambulance to the Rotunda Hospital the pursuing time wherever she was assessed successful the intersexual battle attraction unit. A paramedic who examined Ms Hand the time aft the battle had told the tribunal she had not seen “someone truthful bruised” successful a agelong time.