He is one of the biggest and most sultry stars in mixed martial arts (MMA). Conor McGregor saw the withdrawal this week by an American woman of a complaint against him for sexual assault on the sidelines of a basketball match in Miami in 2023. The plaintiff’s lawyers filed a request for withdrawal of the complaint on Tuesday in a Florida court.
McGregor, 37, had denied any bad behavior during this Miami Heat NBA final game in June 2023 towards this 49-year-old woman, presented in the initial complaint as a senior executive on Wall Street.
Prosecutors had already refused to prosecute McGregor in this case. He was also convicted in November 2024 in civil court in Ireland in a rape case, losing his appeal at the end of July and being ordered to pay $250,000 to a complainant.
Missed doping controls
Huge MMA star with multiple championship belts, “The Notorious”, who has not fought since 2021, was suspended 18 months for having missed three anti-doping controls in 2024, the UFC organization’s anti-doping agency announced in October.
The suspension, backdated to September 2024, the month of his last failed test, would allow him to fight from March 20, 2026, enough to leave him free to join the fight evening of June 14, planned at the White House for the 80th birthday of President Donald Trump.
In September, this leading figure in the anti-migrant movement in Ireland also withdrew his candidacy for his country’s presidential election.
