McGregor, surrounded by security guards, then turns around and approaches the man in question. The Irishman, 36, appears to spit in the man’s face, before saying: “I spit in your face, what do you do? Nothing. I spit in your face.” The Independent has approached McGregor and his management team for comment.

Conor McGregor has been filmed spitting in the face of a man who heckled him over his famous loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov in a shocking incident that has emerged on social media