Conor McGregor swept floors in a Brooklyn church as part of his community service punishment for throwing a dolly at a bus that UFC rival Khabib Nurmagomedov was on.
McGregor, 34, was charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief after attacking a bus that Nurmagomedov and other UFC 223 fighters were on in April 2018. 'Notorious' turned himself in and eventually agreed to a plea deal which saw him complete five days of community service and attend anger management classes.
The UFC legend completed his community service at a church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn a year on from the bus incident. McGregor's community service duties are documented in his new Netflix documentary 'McGregor Forever' and the Irishman seemed to take the positive out of a negative situation as he enjoyed his time sweeping floors in the church.
"I'm coming across mad stuff in this church, just things on the wall," McGregor said. I've just had the trippiest bleeding buzz of my life in there with that reverend, never experienced anything like that in my life. It's just a mad buzz being around people that talk that way and think that way out loud, people who constantly push to be that way and think out loud."
Clive Neil Sr, the pastor at Bedford Central Church, told The New York Post that McGregor carried out lots of physical tasks during his community service. “He was doing physical work; vacuuming, mopping, moving boxes, moving supplies, putting out the garbage and so forth. He was quite patient in rubbing down the brass, polishing with spray and a cloth. He has enough strength in his muscles to do that," Neil said.
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McGregor thanked pastor Neil for the time he spent in the church as he said: "In a chaotic life for me it's been a welcome escape to come here, somewhere calm, and feed off the positive energy that comes off yourself and the people here. It made me focus in on the hard work that I have ahead of me and I'm very excited by that. This has been really good, I'm a little bit sad I have to go."
'Notorious' was sued by UFC fighter Michael Chiesa, who was on board during the bus attack, as he was forced to withdraw from his scheduled fight just days after the incident due to facial lacerations caused by the broken glass. The two fighters reached a settlement in court last December.
