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Conor McGregor Rebukes Nevada's Fine: ‘Good Luck Trying to Get It'

Conor McGregor Rebukes Nevada's Fine: ‘Good Luck Trying to Get It'

Conor McGregor was recently fined $150,000 and assessed 50 hours of community service by the Nevada Athletic Commission. It could be a while before the commission collects its money.

McGregor went before the NAC for disciplinary action after he, Nate Diaz, and Diaz's team hurled water bottles at each other in the middle of the UFC 202 pre-fight press conference in August.

Following the punishment, Mystic Mac's latest prognostication is that Nevada won't be in his near future, so he doesn't appear all that concerned about following through on Nevada's punishment.

“I don't see Nevada in my future, for the foreseeable future is how I see it,” McGregor told Rolling Stone on Friday. “I'm free to do what I want. I'm good. I'm good. New York, New York. That's what I think.”

McGregor is slated to challenge lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez in the UFC 205 main event on Nov. 12 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. After that, it's not clear what is next for him, but even UFC president Dana White, who called McGregor's penalty “insanity,” was flabbergasted by Nevada's punishment.

“I’m not thrilled about (the bottle throwing incident), and we did the best we could to contain it at the time, but come on,” White said on Fox Sports 1.

McGregor went into his NAC disciplinary hearing thinking that if he admitted his wrongdoing and worked with the commission that they would be reasonable in sanctioning him.

“I owned up. I man'd up. I'm here. I apologized. I'm not trying to blame nobody, although (Nate Diaz's team) fired the rounds off first,” said McGregor. “I didn't think they would even go that route because I didn't think this was like a real thing. Are they going to come and arrest me or what the (expletive) is that? I wanted to give them the respect and I felt they would have respected that, but they didn't. So, whatever. It is what it is. Good luck trying to get it.”

And good luck trying to get McGregor to fight in Nevada anytime soon.

As he said, McGregor doesn't see Nevada in his foreseeable future, and White didn't sound all that likely to fight him on it.

“Guess what? Conor McGregor doesn’t need Nevada,” White said. “He can fight anywhere. He can fight in Iowa. We can put his fight on an island off the coast of anywhere. This makes no sense for the state. It’s just terrible.”

It was clear from the video evidence submitted during McGregor's hearing – which included MMAWeekly.com's video coverage of McGregor and Diaz throwing bottles at each other across the crowded room – that the Irishman was responding to Diaz's initial salvo. Logically, that would lead to the likelihood that the commission would come down even harder on Diaz than it did on McGregor. But, of course, history hasn't always shown the commission to follow linear thinking on such matters. So Diaz's punishment is anyone's best guess. McGregor, however, isn't rooting for anything worse for his former opponent.

“I do not wish to see Nate get any more or any less than me,” McGregor said. “I don't want to see either of us have something like this happen. But we'll see. I don't know. If they went that way on me, I don't know what way they're going to go on him.”

The most important aspect of the hearing to McGregor and his team was that they wanted to make sure that he didn't come out of the hearing with a suspension, which would have derailed his UFC 205 headlining bout. The at least succeeded on that front.

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