Conor McGregor is not on the UFC 223 fight card in Brooklyn on Saturday, but the mixed martial arts superstar still made headlines by crashing Thursday's media day and attacking a bus full of rival MMA fighters, leaving them covered in shattered glass.
Police and EMS were called according to UFC president Dana White, who said that there is a warrant out for McGregor's arrest. However, an NYPD spokesman would not confirm that there is a warrant for McGregor's arrest, instead saying that the investigation is ongoing.
'There is a warrant out for Conor McGregor's arrest,' White told reporters. 'They're looking for him right now. His plane cannot take off. He cannot leave the state of New York with this warrant. They will be grounded. I assume if they don't catch him, he'll turn himself in. You can imagine he's going to be sued beyond belief and this was a real bad career move for him.'
The Irishman was scheduled to lose his UFC lightweight belt on Saturday to the winner of the title bout between Max Holloway and Khabib Nurmagomedov, the latter of whom appeared to be the target of McGregor's rage. White previously ruled that McGregor would have to forfeit the belt to whomever won the fight because the 29-year-old has not participated in a UFC event since 2016 - nearly a year before his doomed boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in August of 2017.