This tweet is dated November 26, 2022. It is an audio message with MMA fighter Conor Mcgregor allegedly singing: “Artem is a ra-at nah nah nah hey, nah nah nah hey rat”. This is repeated three times. For those who don’t know, the Russian-born Artem Lobov is a former mixed martial arts fighter who is suing McGregor claiming the former champion breached an oral agreement in 2017 to pay him five per cent of the proceeds of the multimillion euro sale of the whiskey brand “Proper No Twelve”. The legal row has sparked an online spat with McGregor taking to…

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