A man who described himself as a “jihadi” has been jailed for setting fire to Conor McGregor’s pub, according to the Irish Star. The paper’s report confirms the conviction and jail sentence. Beyond that headline, the details available to us are thin. We don’t have the man’s name, the length of his sentence or an account of how much damage the fire did, so we won’t guess at any of it.
What stands out is that a criminal attack on one of McGregor’s businesses has reached sentencing, and the man himself has said nothing about it publicly in the material available. His attention, at least on social media, has been somewhere else entirely.
Where McGregor Is Right Now
The former two-division UFC champion is still recovering from ACL surgery on his knee. The day before the Irish Star report, he spent his Sunday on X comparing himself to Canelo Alvarez, who had just regained the WBC super middleweight title by beating Christian Mbilli.
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“How many views did the Canelo fight get? How many in attendance? Gate?” McGregor wrote. “Man I outdo ALL of these people in sales. Majorly. EVERY SINGLE ONE. With ease. Maybe even combined. I don’t even be trying.”
He kept going, and the next part is the news inside the noise. “I’m going to actually try to sell the fight for my next one. My final fight. See what numbers I can generate. Keep outdoing my own records.”
Those records are real. McGregor’s 2018 fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov remains the top pay-per-view seller in UFC history, according to MMA Fighting. His boxing match with Floyd Mayweather is one of the best-selling fights ever, behind only Mayweather’s bout with Manny Pacquiao. In the same post, he also referred to his most recent appearance, which went head-to-head with a World Cup semifinal, as “that last bullshit that I’ve to sit with for another few months before I return.” Even for him, that’s an odd way to describe the last memory fans have of him on a fight card.
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What’s Next
McGregor has targeted International Fight Week 2027 for his return, MMA Fighting reported. That fight is expected to be the last bout on his current UFC contract, and he is calling it his final fight outright. No opponent has been named, and the knee will decide the timeline as much as anyone in a promotional office.
Quick Take
For most fighters, a fire at a business you own and a jail sentence for the man who set it would be the headline of the year. For McGregor it arrives in the same 48 hours as a Canelo comparison and a retirement tease, and it gets sorted into the pile with everything else. The more useful question for anyone covering him is whether the surgically repaired knee will be ready by International Fight Week 2027. If it isn’t, all the promised sales talk turns into a line he wrote on X one Sunday in November.
