CONOR MCGREGOR has been DROPPED by online game developer IO Interactive following the decision in his civil rape case.

The UFC celebrity was final week discovered liable to have assaulted a girl – Nikita Hand – on the Beacon Resort in Dublin in December 2018.

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McGregor, 36, was accused of “raping and battering” Ms Hand, an accusation he is vehemently denied.

And the ruling at Dublin‘s Excessive Court docket has prompted IO Interactive, the builders of the beloved Hitman online game collection, to END their relationship with the Irishman.

A press release from Hitman’s official X account learn: “In gentle of the current courtroom ruling relating to Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the choice to stop its collaboration with the athlete, efficient instantly.

“We take this matter very critically and can’t ignore its implications.

“Consequently, we are going to start eradicating all content material that includes Mr. McGregor from our storefronts beginning in the present day.”

IO Interactive has change into the primary model related to McGregor, who’s a personality within the ‘Hitman: World of Assassination’ recreation, to publicly stop relations with him following final week’s verdict.

Former two-weight world champion McGregor has been ordered to pay Ms Hand £206,000 (€250,000) in damages.

‘The Infamous’ shook his head earlier than burying it in his fingers after the jury deemed him liable of assaulting Ms Hand after simply over six hours of deliberation.

Does Conor McGregor have any probability of constant UFC profession?

FORMER UFC champion Conor McGregor was discovered to have assaulted a girl who accused him of raping her in a Dublin resort, a civil courtroom jury discovered on Friday.

The 36-year-old was accused of “brutally raping and battering” Nikita Hand in December 2018.

He’ll now should pay Ms Hand 248,603.60 euros in damages.

Regardless of shedding his case, McGregor has vowed to enchantment.

The Irishman’s future in MMA and UFC is now unsure. He hasn’t been within the octagon since July 2021 when he broke his leg and was stopped in opposition to Dustin Poirier.

Here is what SunSport’s chief MMA reporter Chisanga Malata needed to say in regards to the scenario…

“The ruling, which got here in a civil courtroom, not a prison courtroom, has given the UFC arguably its biggest-ever headache in its 31-year run. MMA chiefs will now should make a serious choice over their poster boy.

“Personally, I feel he fights once more. There’s a precedent for it. Simply have a look at the person who fought Jake Paul final week.

“After all, I am speaking about former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who was despatched to jail within the Nineties for rape. He got here out and he had a profitable profession after that, making hundreds of thousands upon hundreds of thousands of kilos earlier than retiring in 2005.

“Sadly, there’s a precedent for it. However the UFC now has an enormous choice to make. As I mentioned, I feel he fights once more. I feel they stick with the plan that was introduced final week on the UFC 309 post-fight press convention and so they have him struggle late 2025.

“Maybe they mentioned late 2025 in anticipation of this ruling not going McGregor’s method and giving a while for this to blow over – though one thing of this magnitude can by no means, ever blow over.

“I imagine McGregor will struggle once more barring a sensational choice from Dana White and all of the traders and so they axe their poster boy. However I simply do not see that taking place and I do see him returning to the octagon late subsequent yr.

“Questions should be requested of the UFC and rightly so. However extra so of the person himself, Mr McGregor.”

He refused to talk to the media on his method out of the courtroom with fiancee Dee Deviln however vowed to enchantment the decision on X shortly afterwards.

He wrote: “I will likely be interesting in the present day’s choice.

“The choose’s instruction and the modest award given was for assault, not for aggravated or exemplary damages.

“I’m upset that the jury didn’t hear all of the proof that the DPP reviewed.

“I’m with my household now, targeted on my future.

“Thanks to all my help worldwide.”

McGregor hasn’t set foot contained in the UFC octagon since breaking his left leg in his trilogy struggle with Dustin Poirier in July 2021.

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