50 Cent took aim at disgraced UFC star Conor McGregor with an Instagram post on Friday mocking his violent rampage against a rival’s tour bus.
The rapper posted an image of McGregor’s face superimposed onto an infamous photograph of Britney Spears attacking a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella in 2007 with the caption, ‘Good morning people … is that you Britney.’
McGregor was arrested on Thursday night after he was caught on camera hurling a hand truck through the window of a moving bus at the Barclays Center in New York, while his entourage joined in with chairs and trash cans.
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The rapper posted an image of McGregor’s face superimposed onto a Infamous photograph of Britney Spears attacking a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella in 2007
McGregor is pictured outside a New York Police station on Friday, left, and 50 Cent at a Los Angeles film premiere on March 7
McGregor was arrested on Thursday night after he was caught on camera hurling a hand truck through the window of a moving bus at the Barclays Center in New York
The infamous photograph of Britney Spears attacking a paparazzo’s car in Los Angeles with an umbrella in 2007
Others were quick to jump on the bandwagon, with numerous posts mocking McGregor appearing on social media on Friday and Saturday.
MMA fighter Devin Powell posted a meme from Austin Powers with the caption, ‘Who throws a Dolly, honestly?’
Powell said he ‘let the dust settle a bit’ before posting the image but then decided ‘it was time’.
Meanwhile, a bargain website pitched in by offering a t-shirt saying ‘bus + chair = jail’.
McGregor was arraigned Friday on charges of felony criminal mischief, misdemeanor assault and menacing and reckless endangerment.
He was released on $50,000 bond – a charge that has to be paid to the court and is only handed back if the defendant makes all the required appearances.
That is pocket change for a fighter who was guaranteed $30 million last year in his ballyhooed boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr. McGregor is due back in court June 14.
MMA fighter Devin Powell posted a meme from Austin Powers with the caption, ‘Who throws a Dolly, honestly?’
Levi West wrote: ‘Timing beats speed and dolly beats window’ next to an image of McGregor holding one
Another Instagram user posted ‘I thought we were having a title defence… Oh, no, I said “throwing a fence”‘
This Instagram user posted a photo of McGregor partying with one of him appearing in court
Another of many memes posted on Instagram and Twitter that made fun of McGregor
Meanwhile, a bargain website pitched in by offering a t-shirt saying ‘bus + chair = jail’
Video footage appeared to show the promotion’s most bankable star throwing a dolly at a bus full of fighters at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
McGregor was trying to get at UFC 223 main event fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov because the Russian had been involved in a hotel altercation with fellow fighter Artem Lobov.
McGregor tried to stick up for Lobov, a close friend, and apparently loaded a private jet with his best buds and flew to New York to rumble.
Flyweight Ray Borg was also scratched ahead of his bout with Brandon Moreno due to ‘multiple corneal abrasions’, the UFC said in a statement.
And because the featherweight Lobov was involved in instigating the fracas, his bout with Alex Caceres was also cancelled.
Making matters worse for the UFC, Max Holloway was not medically cleared to fight Nurmagomedov in the main event.
Now another fighter will be needed to step in on extremely short notice or the main event will be cancelled.
Twitter had plenty of posts making fun of McGregor too, with this user pointing out the fact that he will now miss an upcoming fight with Khabib
McGregor is seen here in a bright orange suit next to a UFL belt and then a dolly
Matt Crouch tweeted: ‘Vince McMahon’s face right now watching Conor McGregor’
One of many memes that made use of an episode of The Simpsons to mock McGregor
McGregor said nothing as the press shouted questions while he was led to court. The professional consequences of his rampage could reverberate beyond the criminal charge
McGregor’s mugshot is seen on this prisoner movement slip for his transfer to court on Friday
Conor McGregor is seen in new footage at a UFC 223 media day at Barclays Center in Brooklyn