{"id":90739,"date":"2025-08-23T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:10:03","slug":"conor-mcgregor-bullies-helpless-sparring-partner-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90739\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor Bullies Helpless Sparring Partner In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor is in the midst of his long-awaited UFC comeback and he\u2019s pulling no punches when it comes to training, even at the expense of some helpless sparring partners.<\/p>\n

Now that McGregor is back in UFC\u2019s drug-testing pool <\/a>and angling for a spot<\/a> on next year\u2019s White House card<\/a>, his training efforts have ramped up. That\u2019s not to say \u201cNotorious\u201d hasn\u2019t tried to stay in shape when he isn\u2019t spending money and taking trips on his yacht, but the former UFC double champion appears to be leveling up.<\/p>\n

During a recent trip to Italy, McGregor hit a local gym to get in some vacation sparring. Unfortunately for some of the inexperienced talent at the gym, \u201cNotorious\u201d didn\u2019t pull many punches when the action unfolded. The Irish star wasn\u2019t looking to knock anyone out, but he was beating up on some unsuspecting amateurs nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Check it out in the above video player.<\/p>\n

McGregor, who hasn\u2019t competed since injuring his leg in a trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier back in July 2021, is known to have hard sparring sessions<\/a>. Maybe the former UFC champion should have taken it a little easier on these Italian punching bags, but they knew what they were signing up for.<\/p>\n

UFC middleweight contender Paulo Costa approved of McGregor\u2019s efforts and even called for \u201cNotorious\u201d to \u201cknock that kid out cold.\u201d Check it out below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor is in the midst of his long-awaited UFC comeback and he\u2019s pulling no punches when it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-90739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}