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Topics: Conor McGregor, Twitter, Celebrity
Emma Rosemurgey
Topics: Conor McGregor, Twitter, Celebrity
Conor McGregor and Azealia Banks have caused quite a stir on social media over the last few days.
The 212 rapper shared a collection of images allegedly of the UFC fighter on X, accusing him of 'sexual harassment' after he told her not to be a 'rat'.
Banks shared screenshots of their exchange, in which McGregor appeared to send a photo of himself naked in a mirror with a weight on his manhood, along with the caption 'lifting weights', but it seems to be the accompanying message that caused the most offence.
"Don't be a rat cos all rats get caught," he wrote, appearing to threaten her against telling anyone about the nude photos.
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Taking to X, Banks raged: "How you gonna send a b**** a some crooked d*** pics then threaten her not to tell. @TheNotoriousMMA n**** do you know who the f*** I am? This is HARAM."
In a follow up post, the rapper accused McGregor 'sexually harassed' her, however, both posts have since been deleted.
Subsequent posts from the 37-year-old left people confused regarding Banks' history with McGregor, after she claimed they had both been sending each other nude photos for years.
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"No me and Conor McGregor have been sending each other unsolicited nudes since 2016, LOL," she wrote.
While Banks didn't divulge any more information about their history of exchanging images, the pair do have a history of defending each other on social media when it comes to airing their controversial opinions.
Banks is known for sharing contentious views online and regularly finds herself beefing with various different celebrities. On a number of occasions, she has been called out for using offensive homophobic language.
In 2017, she returned to the spotlight after a haitus from the music industry following an alleged physical assault by Russell Crowe in 2016 and she gained a strong following for posting about her mental health.
On her return to social media, McGregor - who is in a long term with fiancée Dee Devlin - praised her on Instagram, telling her that her 'rise from the ashes' served as 'payback' to those who criticised her.
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The following year, Banks turned to the fighter once more and asked to step in and 'save her from the bullies' after she launched into a foul mouthed rant about Irish people, following a fight with an Air Lingus crew member on a flight from London to Dublin.
Perhaps because of their history, father-of-four McGregor appeared completely unphased by the screenshots being shared online. Shortly after they were made public, he simply took to social media to wish himself a happy birthday.
He did later acknowledge the situation when he responded to a comment referring to news that Mairead McGuinness was running for President in his native Ireland, which said: "This is why the big news is Conor's giant c*** rather than the facts he is spraying."
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McGregor wrote: "Don't let them distract you with my G C while they rob our country blind!"
Now, McGregor has issued an even more dismissive response by sharing a meme on Instagram, which read: "Conor McGregor waking up from a sesh on his birthday to see his meat plastered all over social media," alongside a picture of a man looking shocked at his phone screen.
Alongside the meme, he simply put two laughing face emojis.
In a further statement, the 37-year-old took to X to respond to the news that former bare-knuckle fighter Alberto Blas had been found not guilty of the attempted murder of Yoel Romero after the latter refused to testify in court.
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"We don't give a f*** and we will never conform to the pretend fakeness that most o the world conform to in the name of corporate business," he wrote.
"It's bulls*** and its fake. We are raw, unfiltered, balls like Bengali tigers, if you cross us, you will meet us."
LADbible has reached out to Conor McGregor and Azealia Banks' representatives for comment.