Midnight Mania! Conor McGregor slags off ‘broke scammer’ Dustin Poirier

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Conor McGregor is at it again.

“The Notorious” has been harassing Dustin Poirier on and off for the past few months, going on wild social media posting sprees attacking his past opponent … and Dustin’s wife. The stuff McGregor has written is so gross we’re not particularly interested in repeating it. This time he took a shot at Poirier’s Good Fight Foundation charity.

“Scammers, him and the wife. SCAMMERS,” McGregor wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “BROKE SCAMMER ALERT.”

McGregor was reacting to news that Khabib Nurmagomedov was buying the shorts Poirier had worn at UFC 302 after the winner of a charity auction pulled out.

“Buy the shorts that he quit in in the most important fight of his life #NeverBeen,” McGregor quipped.

This isn’t the first time Conor has trash talked Poirier’s Good Fight foundation, which helps underprivileged families in Dustin’s home state of Louisiana. After their second fight, Mac promised to make a charitable donation of $500,000, only to renege on the offer claiming The Good Fight wasn’t being transparent about where the funds would go.

McGregor eventually donated the money to the Boys & Girls Club of Acadiana in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Poirier hasn’t responded to this latest attack, or many of the previous attacks. He did address McGregor’s regular taunting during a new appearance on The MMA Hour.

“He crossed lines you can’t come back from,” Poirier said. “I want to whip his ass.”

“When he does it, like the other day, I saw him say something. And it’s like that’s what he’s trying to bring out of me. He wants me to fire back or something. I just go on with my day. Is it hard? Yeah, because of course I wanna say something right back and try to set up a fight with him. I wanna, but it is what it is, man.”

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