Conor McGregor and the Paul brothers are buddying up within the nation’s capital.
The controversial MMA fighter was heading to Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday morning in Washington, D.C., carpooling with two long-rumored potential boxing opponents: Jake and Logan Paul.
The trio co-posted a carousel of photos that includes their smiling mugs to their Instagram accounts with the caption, “Inauguration going great.”
YouTuber and Nelk Boy Kyle Forgeard was additionally on the bus and posted his personal video of the fighters laughing it up.
“We got an interesting bus ride to the inauguration here,” Forgeard commentates earlier than flipping the digital camera round to disclose McGregor seated beside Jake and Logan’s mom, Pam Stepnick, and the brothers one row in entrance of them.
“Couple best friends?” Forgeard asks.
Jake Paul leans over and into the digital camera, laughing, “I’m gonna kill him.”
Seated a number of rows additional up was podcaster and comic Theo Von, who, apparently jealous of all of the enjoyable being had behind the bus, was captured on video together with his head turned 180 levels issuing a warning to McGregor: “Keep your hands off Pam.”
Chatter a few presumptive boxing match between McGregor, 36, and Logan, 29, or Jake, 28, has picked up important traction within the wake of the civil trial introduced in opposition to the previous UFC featherweight and light-weight champion.
In November 2024, McGregor was discovered liable by a jury in Eire for “brutally rap[ing] and batter[ing]” a lady in a resort penthouse after an evening of heavy partying in 2018.
McGregor stated on social media final month that he and Logan Paul had agreed to face one another in a boxing match in India this yr.
The occasion, allegedly “almost confirmed,” has been “tied to India’s Visit India tourism campaign, and would take place at Mumbai’s iconic 33,000-capacity Wankhede cricket stadium,” the Instances of India studies.
“I have agreed,” McGregor wrote in a put up to X on Dec. 17. “I will then seek my return to the Octagon.”
McGregor is now dealing with one other civil swimsuit from an nameless lady who claimed the fighter sexually assaulted her on the Kaseya Heart, residence to the Miami Warmth, on June 9, 2023.
It’s not clear how the swimsuit would have an effect on McGregor’s preventing aspirations.
