UFC ace Conor McGregor calls out 50 Cent for big celebrity fight after ‘making constant memes about me’
CONOR MCGREGOR has called out Floyd Mayweather’s pal 50 Cent with a challenge to fight the rapper over a spate of Instagram memes.
When asked about the celebrity he would most like to fight, the Irish UFC star remembered a series of silly posts by 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson.
McGregor's arrest for attacking a bus filled with fighters before UFC 223 was latched onto by the American.
An Instagram post likening him to Britney Spears, who infamously took aim at a paparazzo's car with an umbrella in 2007, upset the MMA fighter.
"Is that you Britney?" remarked 50 Cent in what has become an on-running feud between the pair.
After announcing his official UFC return in Moscow, McGregor said: "I’d have to probably say 50 Cent, I’d like to fight him.
"Throughout the course of the [Floyd] Mayweather build-up I used him as a tool, a promotional tool on the free also, I knew he was linked to Floyd so I tied him in also and he responded big time and we capitalised on that audience so I was very thankful.
"But then after that he began a little tirade against me on social media, particularly Instagram where he’d make these memes about me constantly.
"Every time I’d go onto the internet I’d see 50 Cent had posted up some new stupid meme and I wrote one of the memes - ‘old man on the internet making memes’ and then he blocked me.
"So he’s had to block me, and I still see sometimes, I still get tagged in - other people saying he’s saying this and his saying that.
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";So I’d like to have a knock-off with 50 yeah, so if you’re listening 50 - let’s get it going bud."
McGregor is to return to the octagon on January 18, 2020, in Las Vegas.
No opponent has been announced yet after he was beaten by Khabib Nurmagomedov last year.