Months after guilty assault verdict, Conor McGregor ruthlessly attacks Alex Pereira’s ex-girlfriend for spreading hate

Conor McGregor slams Alex Pereira's ex-girlfriend Merle Christine for celebrating UFC 313 PPV main event title loss.

Months after guilty assault verdict, Conor McGregor ruthlessly attacks Alex Pereira’s ex-girlfriend for spreading hate

Conor McGregor rips into Alex Pereira's ex-girlfriend Merle Christine after UFC 313 (Source: X/IMAGO)

Alex Pereria’s UFC 313 PPV shock title loss took the combat sports news world by storm like no other. However, it has had an unlikely fallout. Pereira’s ex-girlfriend, Merle Christine, recently resurfaced after Pereira’s loss. Her comments, although very weird and unlikely, now pit her against ‘The Notorious’ Conor McGregor!

A year after breaking up, Merle Christine celebrated Pereira’s title loss to Magomed Ankalaev atop the UFC 313 PPV main event this. In her YouTube video, she even chose Ankalaev to win in her pre-fight prediction, rather than “Poatan.” This has drawn responses from Alex Pereira’s biggest enemies. Now, Conor McGregor, with a usual amount of profanity and tweet-spree, weighs in as well.

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Ankalaev worked Pereria in his own standup game, all the way to a UD win (49-46, 48-47, 48-47). Soon after, a gleeful Merle Christine went viral with her video, twisting “CHAMA” with ‘Karma’; as in the former light heavyweight champ deserved his loss.

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McGregor took notice of Christine’s video and hit back. “Notorious” has been an ardent supporter of Alex Pereira’s multi-division title campaign. It is safe to say that the Irishman didn’t hold back when describing the recent behavior of Pereira’s ex-lover.

On the flip side, McGregor has had woman trouble in the recent past. A Dublin Civil Court found him guilty of a 2018 assault of Nikita Hand; one that he vigorously denies. He was subject to €248,000 in damages, along with her legal costs.

Since then, major Irish brands have forsaken McGregor, hurting his marketability. So, now, he took an empathetic stand against alleged slander, with peer Alex Pereira involved. Yet, the people in Ireland is running out of empathy for him.

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Conor McGregor hasn’t had a return bout since his TKO injury loss to Dustin Poirier in July 2021. Almost four years later, the decorated fighter is becoming an extremely unpopular figure in his home turf. It is not something one’d think could be said about Conor McGregor, of all people!

UFC's biggest superstar Conor McGregor is in limbo and losing fame
UFC’s biggest superstar Conor McGregor is in limbo and losing fame (Source: X)

McGregor lost the civil suit to Hand. He was also levied a fine of €1,000 in 2019 for the assault of Desmond Keogh in a Dublin pub. Then, the former UFC champ faced another civil lawsuit for sex*al assault in Miami. That is not where the buck stops.

After urging to flame down the housing holding immigrants, the Garda investigated him for instigating riots. Even recently, his take on the conversion of a pub to an IPAS (International Protection Accommodation Services) center caught flak for inciting more harm.

Without a UFC/MMA return, McGregor is losing all the aura that once made him so famous. To top it off, he is letting rivalries bleed into personal areas. He recently ripped into Irish fighter Paul Hughes, who hails from Derry in the North. This has received various forms of backlash on chatboards. It’s up to the point where Irish fans booed him loudly when Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst introduced him!

There’s no whiff of a clue even that McGregor is making a fighting return. Without which, his superstardom is fast dwindling. McGregor’s last big sweep was the UFC 303 PPV kickoff presser, where he was set to return against Michael Chandler. The expectation of him returning made a projected $20 million in gate sales! It remains to be seen if he will that kind of effect when he returns.

Related: Dana White breaks silence over Conor McGregor’s relationship with UFC after civil lawsuit